Posted on 11/30/2010 9:24:42 AM PST by GoreFreeTN
The Tennessee State Supreme Court acted Monday to stop the executions of four inmates, including one set for Tuesday, to consider whether prison officials have found a way to carry out lethal injections humanely.
The court gave Davidson County Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman 90 days to rule on the constitutionality of the state’s new lethal injection procedure.
The ruling came hours after lawyers for condemned double-killer Stephen Michael West asked the court to stop his execution Tuesday (read article here). They argued prison officials have failed to ensure he won’t suffer horrific pain as he suffocates on the gurney in the death chamber.
Then when he's distracted with intra-muscular pain from the tip of his toes all the way to the creases around his eyeballs bring in someone to just curb stomp him.
He'll be grateful for the release.
The left is against killing by State when it’s a murderer, but for it when it’s an elderly person or a baby-in-development.
I find this whole argument bizarre.
I believe, or at least it is generally assumed, that we have ways of humanely putting dogs to sleep. But somehow similar methods used for humans cause great pain?
How’s that work?
OK so give him the same anesthesia they give to people undergoing surgery
when he is under, kill the doucebag
What’s the problem here?
I've not heard similar concern from the left over the possibility that late-term abortions might hurt the baby.
The problem here are liberals on the TN court, who need to be expunged from the bench, as they usurp power by fiat.
This makes perfect sense.
Why would a Libtard want to execute their most fanatical voter base?
Why don’t they just hang these animals instead? the supreme court has already ruled that hanging is ok.
whether prison officials have found a way to carry out lethal injections humanely.
Its the FREAKKIN DEATH PENALTY you idiots.
You are KILLING the person. That might upset him and hurt him a little.
DUH........ What a bunch of weenie crybabies this Nation has become!
Were the victims of this guy’s crimes humanely anesthetized when he perpetrated his depravity upon them? No? You mean they suffered?
Same same. He should suffer in his execution; not torture mind you, just death by whatever means. Bullets or hangmans noose seems adequate to me.
I second nitrogen. Not because it’s humane in itself, but because the fact that it is completely humane can shut up the lawyers.
The murderer will be strapped down and a breathing mask applied, or alternately the whole room is used as in the gas chamber days. Regular air mix (nitrogen and oxygen) is pumped in at a set rate, temperature, humidity and taste. At a certain time the oxygen is dialed down while the nitrogen is dialed up, so that soon he is breathing pure nitrogen.
The suffocation feeling is not triggered by lack of oxygen, but the buildup of CO2. Nitrogen removes the CO2, preventing the suffocation feeling and accompanying reflex to gasp for air, but it does not supply the oxygen necessary to keep the body going. The murderer just feels tired, falls asleep, and dies.
The only possible discomfort can come if the murderer was trained to detect the symptoms of oxygen deprivation, as pilots and high-altitude climbers often are. Then he might panic a bit when he realizes the execution has begun. But then the same happens for pretty much any execution method.
You miss the point-civil punishment must be punishment. I don’t care if a condemned criminal suffers anguish, mental or pyhsical or both during the execution of the sentence of death. Hey, he is being KILLED for untolerable crimes against the rest of us, not euthanized out of pity like we do for beloved pets.
Yes, I am firmly of the opinion that the death sentence is both a durable and a communicated deterrent to crime. The criminal will never commit another crime and the criminally minded hopefully see it as a horrible punishment vice a “drift of to wonderland” deal-and hopefully thinks twice-if not, then they get to experience the former.....
Best;
I think you missed my point. I only say go extremely humane because that will give judges one less bogus reason to stop executions. I’m not talking about the welfare of the murderer.
Guillotines are very humane, painless in fact. BUT they are messy for the executioners and that’s the real issue in executions despite the falderall spewed to the press.
Killing someone can never be morally called “Humane”, that is the point you miss.
Pandering to the leftist emotional demogogues is a race to the bottom, never the top.
I do understand your point, I just wholehearted and morally reject it.
I’m just a practical person, whatever it takes to undo the clogged system. It we have to make a little effort to calm some sensibilities, then so be it.
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