Posted on 10/09/2013 9:38:14 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Two men were executed in the United States with a drug not yet approved by federal authorities.
In Texas, which has put to death more people than any other US state, prison authorities said Michael Yowell was pronounced dead at 7:11 pm.
Yowell was sentenced to death for killing his parents when he was 28 years old after stealing money from them to buy drugs. He had also opened a gas valve so that the house would explode.
In Arizona, 71-year-old Edward Schad died at 10:12 am.
Schad was sentenced to death for the 1978 murder of a 74-year-old whose corpse was found with a cord around its neck eight days after he left for a road trip.
Both Schad and Yowell were executed using a lethal injection with a new barbiturate customized by a compounding pharmacy.
The US Food and Drug Administration has not yet approved the drug.
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Well, there is another European invention, any patent on which has long since expired, and which does not need clinical trials, its operation being obviously correct by inspection. That would be the product of Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin's 1789 ingenuity, which has a 100% success rate in actual use.
Fk me!!!!
I had a hilarious response but’ that takes the cake.
LOL!!!
Listened to the local news tonight from Houston. Broadcasters are screaming how bad it is, how painful, etc. But, yes, it did seem to be successful so they should just leave it alone. Who cares about whether the FDA approves a drug used for execution or not. If we hung them with a rope, they’d probably complain about the type we used. Good grief.
That really doesn’t make sense seeing as they are dying anyway. They aren’t taking it for good health.
That said, I’ve said it here before and I’ll say it again, I only support the death penalty is rare circumstances and prefer life imprisonment.
And, you know, without FDA approval, it might be bad for you or something!
Seems they believe like General Ben Raines.
Wait...this isn’t “The Onion”?
Only when placed on the midline between and 1.5 inches above the right and left nostrils.
How about Zyklon B? Thoroughly tested. And cheap.
Executions should be swift and gory.
To Agence Frog Presse’. The drugs worked, Encoulez-vous!
With a Guillotine, the executioner can really “get ahead” in his job.
Theme song of the Executioners’ Guild - “I Ain’t Got No Body”
Second theme song: “I’m head over heels over you”
It’s getting late. That’s all you get for free.
Louis 16th was found to have “no head for the business”....His wife Marie was found “quite beside her self”...Robespierre, acted with revolutionary flame, alas to soon beheaded in revolutionary shame...
and finally the last recorded words of the very last guillotined victim of the Revolution, a colorful clothier to the rich and bourgeoisie, one Claude Le Poissant
“Sacre Bleu, to have died wearing mismatched stockings...”
The FDA has to approve?
They follow the same “safe and effective” rule?
Do they still rub the spot on the arm with alcohol?
Lead is the best Poison if administered in the proper manner. It’s also the most cost effective remedy.
If you don’t want to hurt the darlings, what is wrong with giving them the same stuff that knocks people out before surgery but just give them a whole lot of it (or something else) when they are out? I was looking around and found a list that mentioned propofol, etomidate, methohexital, pentothal, and ketamine. I don’t know anything about these, but I would imagine they would work.
OD of barbiturates is one of the methods used to euthanize animals. Under normal conditions, that’s painless by intent.
Therefore, this is TOO KIND for these criminals. The gentle end for a faithful pet who’s come to the end of their life is far better than criminals deserve!
Who the hell cares how they are killed?
They should experience a horrible death that takes as long as the murder and torture they performed on the citizen they killed. Furthermore, it should be held in the public and be done in the same manner as the original murder.
Coddling criminals has become the bane of our justice system.
Just curious. What are some of those rare circumstances you reference?
Second question: do you think it is right to make the taxpayers support these vermin for the rest of their natural lives? (Incidentally, I would think the death sentence appropriate for more than just murder; we have lots of "things" behind bars that do not deserve to live ever again in society.)
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