Posted on 12/14/2006 6:53:04 PM PST by pinkpanther111
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. --Defense attorneys and death penalty opponents were outraged Thursday over an execution in which the condemned man took more than half an hour to die, needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals, and appeared to grimace in his final moments. "I am definitely appalled at what happened. I have no doubt he suffered unduly," Angel Nieves Diaz's attorney, Suzanne Myers Keffer, said after Diaz died by injection. Executions in Florida normally take about 15 minutes, with the inmate rendered unconscious and motionless within the first three to five minutes. But Diaz took 34 minutes to die and appeared to be moving for most of that time.
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Guillotine.
Quick, certain, supposedly painless, and because you're not putting chemicals or current through them, you have transplantable organs.
I wonder how long it took his victim(s) to die?
From what I hear, starving someone to death is the best way to go. Why, I hear that Terri Schaivo had a painless, peaceful death. Yep, that's what I heard.
LOL
I really meant to say practice = experience.
The more you do it, the better you are at it.
""I am definitely appalled at what happened. I have no doubt he suffered unduly,""
BS, he was oblivious to the entire proceeding. Besides, he had 27 years he didn't deserve.
I'd like to see some of the facts of the case, and the review.
While I, absolutely, am in favor of the death penalty, I'm convinced that more than a few innocent men have been put to death in our Country.
I would think that we have, or should have, learned some lessons in the past 10 or so years, resulting from the use of DNA. I know I have.
1. Not all "eye witnesses" can really ID the correct person.
2. Not all law enforcement agencies are as honest as we expect them to be.
3. Not all juries vote based on facts.
4. Not all prosecutors care about pursuing real justice.
5. Not one of the 100's of men saved by DNA evidence* were guilty of that crime.
In fact, I believe so strongly in the death penalty, I make this protest in SUPPORT of it. NOT against it. We have become so PRO death penalty that, imo, we are making the case against it.
Let's do EVERYTHING we can to make sure, that the convicted one is really guilty...then we can take relief at his death.
:O)
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* http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/161258.htm
I have a few devices that could put down these scumbags in less than .04 seconds. That's much faster than pain can register, so no cruel and unusual crying.
Oh the horrors. I wonder how ling HIS victim took to die and how painful it was for him. The article is (not) surprisingly silent on what he did to his victim to deserve the death penalty.
Too mercifully quick.
On the contrary, perhaps they are the ones who've gotten it right this time...
dimethyl mercury would have worked.
It doesn't matter. He was a sadistic waste of oxygen, he should be gone, and he is gone. That's the goal -- gone.
The conduct of murderers and terrorists should in no way inform our conduct. Ever. Full stop. The state should not be in the business of raping rapists or torturing torturers; the whole point is that we are better than they are.
Justice is not revenge. Punishment is not retribution. Executioners are not murderers. I understand, and often share, the anger that leads to wanting to tear murderers to shreds and feed them to wolverines, but that is not a fitting action for a just and democratic government that believes in the rule of law.
When, after following the course of due process of law, the state determines that someone shouldn't live any more, then they should be dispatched from this life by means as swift, certain, clean and painless as science can devise.
No pulling out thumbnails or swabbing rubbing alcohol into the eyeballs, no stomping on the bones or pissing on the grave, because as much fun as those things might be, that's not a business I want the state to be in.
Governments act in my name, with my votes and dollars and a considerable amount of liberty I surrender to them as a fundamental part of the social contract; in exchange, I hold them to a higher moral standard on some matters than I hold myself. And certainly a higher standard than that of murderers, rapists, sadists, pedophiles and terrorists.
Florida is the land of Satan.
Ribbentrop and Sauckel each took 14 minutes to choke to death, while Keitel, whose death was the most painful, struggled for 24 minutes at the end of the rope before expiring.
Hang him next time and this won't happen.
A guy who ought to die is dead, and some folks who ought to live stay alive. Works for me.
Obviously, a lot of death row inmates won't be donor candidates because of disease and drug damage, and organ donation would have to be strictly voluntary, because otherwise there would be a risk of China-style harvesting. But nothing says that we couldn't offer incentives. Sign the donor agreement, get a TV in your cell and double the Jell-O at dinner.
You'd think he would have woken up after the third or fourth stab.
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