Posted on 08/02/2010 4:10:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A death row inmate convicted of the 1985 torture and murder of a pizza deliveryman in Glendale asked a court Monday to strike down the state's newly revised execution procedures as illegal and likely to inflict excruciating pain if used on any of California's 700-plus condemned prisoners.
The lawsuit filed by Mitchell Sims, 50, alleges that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation rushed through revisions of the lethal injection procedures and deliberately sought to shut the public out of the process.
Corrections officials approved the changes one day before a May 1 deadline and sent them to the Office of Administrative Law for endorsement. That office endorsed the changes late April 30, allowing the execution plans to move forward to state and federal courts for review.
Executions have been on hold in California since early 2006, when U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel expressed concern that some of the 13 death sentences carried out in the state in the past two decades might have exposed prisoners to unconstitutionally "cruel and unusual punishment."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
>> God forbid a convicted murderer feeeels any pain...
Yeah, especially one that tortured his victim.
Shoot the bastard and be done.....cheaper, too.
You will be beat to death by feathers
Forbiding cruel and unusual punishment isn’t a guarantee of a painless execution.
Washington State still uses it...so there is no USSC prohibition against it.
It's effective too. Works 100% of the time and nobody, repeat, NOBODY has ever complained that it was painful.
I have a real hang-up on the whole “cruel and unusual” criteria used to judge methods of execution (and other punishments). Since when does a murderer (or a torturous murderer) have any concerns about how it “feels”? Since when should this monster have ANY say in the matter?
Did he give his victim (and the many victims by relation) any choice in the matter? Did he offer him a pain-free method of dying?
This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that reflects how broken our legal system is.
Not only is this monster on death row (still drawing breath and being fed, air conditioned, and receiving medical care on the taxpayer’s pocketbooks), but has been so for HOW MANY Years (a 1985 torture-murder case...). This guy should have been converted to fertilizer years ago. There is ZERO doubt as to his guilt, the details of the case are horrendous... what is going on?
Personally - I believe photos of the crime, with autopsy details should be require daily reading and meditation materials for ANY judge who would give this monster a single second of court time.
I favor Public Hanging.
barbra ann
I want them to scream as they wither in pain for hours.
Then do it to them again. Like Groundhog Day over and over and over.
According to the old "Trusty" (used rather loosely) Wikipedia gives this tidbit:
Since June 6, 1996 inmates have been able to choose if their execution will be carried out by lethal injection or hanging. If the person makes no decision, the default method is lethal injection. It should also be noted that Washington is the only state with an active gallows (Delaware dismantled theirs in 2003).
Same source shows 4 executions since 1976 - two by hanging, two by lethal injection.
Here in Arkansas, I believe there have been 27 or 28 executions since 1990, though I wish we would quit "putting them to sleep" (lethal injection). Far better than any murderer deserves.
Texas takes the death penalty seriously - with 414 executions since 1990...
Case closed.
Despite the intent to make these cases sound bad, if you want some “happy endings”, see this:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/some-examples-post-furman-botched-executions
Way to go Texas .... get er done!
We should ban any execution method that DOES NOT involve a tremendous amount of pain.
Bring back hanging in all 50 states in a timely manner and capital murders will go down nation wide.
Tough toe-nails if it hurts a little.
Sorry....I have no compassion for their "suffering". In fact, I would prefer that the method of execution is identical to the crime motus operandi, thereby equating to "an eye for an eye...."
700-plus condemned prisoners
That’s a little over 2 weeks of 24/7 executions if performed at a rate of 2 per hour.
One can dream of a better world....
Break ‘em on the wheel.
Seriously though, why not just pump them full of morphine? Or a CO gas chamber?
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