Good enough for Sadam, good enough for anyone else.
Posted on 01/28/2014 12:56:48 PM PST by Second Amendment First
As death penalty states struggle to obtain drugs suitable for lethal injections, more old-fashioned methods of executing prisoners are getting another look.
Lawmakers in Missouri and Wyoming have introduced measures this month that would give their states an option to use firing squads — instead of lethal drugs — to carry out executions. Another bill proposed by a Virginia lawmaker would authorize death by electrocution if lethal injection isn’t possible.
The measures have surfaced as a number of pharmaceutical firms have barred corrections departments from buying drugs that could be used in executions, forcing states to scramble for other suppliers and to experiment with alternative drugs.
The botched, 26-minute execution of an Ohio inmate earlier this month — using a cocktail of chemicals never before used in a U.S. execution — underscored the problem.
“This isn’t an attempt to time-warp back into the 1850s or the wild, wild West or anything like that,” Missouri state Rep. Rick Brattin, who sponsored the fire squad legislation, told the Associated Press, which reported on the bills. “It’s just that I foresee a problem, and I’m trying to come up with a solution that will be the most humane yet most economical for our state.”
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Good enough for Sadam, good enough for anyone else.
If you didn't do that, he could get a nasty infection. Heck, he might even die!
Why not just use explosives?
A one hundred pound bomb in an enclosed concrete bunker would guarantee instantaneous and painless death.
Or just go “North Korean” and fire mortars at ‘em.
That Joan Baez song made my skin crawl.... It was like a cat fight slowed town to 33rpm. Yuch!
I’m sure that is the same moral dilemma that the condemned killers ponder as they rape, burn, slice, shoot, strangle, suffocate, starve, poison, run over, etc their victims.
No the reason is because of libs like you. If he dies, great. Nobody said it would be easy. Nothing wrong with Capital punishment.
"That's your receipt for your husband. Thank you. And this is my receipt, for your receipt"
IIRC, every hanging requires the use of a brand-new rope.
Then there was that Twilight Zone episode....
Will the libs count that as “gun violence”?
that would work
One thing is, that if you throw in an exhaustive detailed forensic investigation to make sure that there is no innocent people facing death, that would actually be something that would save innocents from being executed.
One of the best arguments against the death penalty is that innocent people do get caught up and end up executed.
The Saddam Hanging video was even funnier when they used the Benny Hill Theme as the background music.
Interesting that the article, at least the excerpt, doesn’t mention
WHY
the states are having problems getting the drugs for lethal injection.
The pharmies are being pressured by the left to not sell these particular drugs to the states where lethal injection is used for capital punishment.
As always, the left’s intent never takes into account human behavior or “the market”. They feel good about themselves for denying the states the means of lethal injection, and the states are considering FIRING SQUADS as an alternative.
But... the lefties feel good about themselves, and that’s all that matters.
And one of the best arguments for the death penalty is the 0% Recidivism Rate.
A single bullit to the back of the head is cheaper.
-PJ
I believe what actually happened is that the two pharma companies that primarily made these drugs got bought by European companies. And the EU ordered the parent companies to stop selling these drugs for executions.
The practical effect is that the courts are now going to start finding all of these alternatives “cruel and unusual”, and the death penalty will come to a screeching halt. On the books, but unenforceable as a practical matter.
Everyone’s gonna’ die at some point. They had their ‘fair’ trial by jury and were found guilty and then were found deserving of the death penalty by another phase.
How many times out of a thousand do you think they get it wrong? In my opinion, not enough to shut down the entire system. Laws must have real teeth or you will just have more victims. Saving innocent victims from murderers is worth the very small percentage of mistakes made by courts and juries.
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