Posted on 04/03/2014 9:33:01 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
A serial killer was put to death Thursday in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers' demand that the state release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug.
Tommy Lynn Sells, 49, was the first inmate to be injected with a dose of newly replenished pentobarbital that Texas prison officials obtained to replace an expired supply of the powerful sedative.
Sells declined to give a statement. As the drug began flowing into his arms inside the death chamber in Huntsville, Sells took a few breaths, his eyes closed and he began to snore. After less than a minute, he stopped moving. He was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m. CDT - 13 minutes after being given the pentobarbital.
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Your advocacy of the gratuitous use of a rusty cheese grater.
IMHO, of course.
You’re right; yet, this is why I’m glad to be human. Frankly, so many things are heinous and vile. This is on par with Bundy, the number this monster murdered.
I didn’t read up since there’s a limit to what even I can handle.
I think people understand the misery public defenders endure when they are required by the constitution to defend these monsters.
I seriously doubt it.
Look, I knew I would be promptly pilloried for my comments; nevertheless, I felt led by the Spirit to make them.
That's all I have to say, so Peace be unto you all...
If someone i loved had been among the dead, I would have been out there cheer-leading. I’m empathetic towards victims, not butchers.
Sounds like a nice way to go - when my time is due I hope I have it so easy!
Mel
“Glee” That’s a show I don’t watch.
If you think we’re ‘full of glee’ you’re crackers.
Oh, but I do.
Tell me about it. Even decent people suffer more at the time of their death.
I did understand what you were saying. I have always had a real problem understanding why the person who protests the execution of a murderer doesn’t blink an eye or say a word when a baby who had never hurt anyone is aborted.
I may very well have to answer to God at judgment day for my view on execution but I have always felt that anyone who takes the life of someone else without justification deserves to have their life ended.
Here’s a link to a very good compilation and analysis of Biblical and Jesus’ statements about capital punishment.
http://www.theologyonline.com/DEATH.HTML
Yep quick and clean and if he got himself right with the Almighty then who could ask for a better death. This here is not the end - death row can be the most merciful place on earth if those on it take time to consider their evil deeds and repent and then you get to leave like going to sleep. I’m not sure they deserve such a sweet end. I take no comfort or happiness in another’s fall and I will let God judge the final outcome!
Sounds like they found a humane way to do it
It’s the life they choose. I knew a few. They were vile and duplicitous people willing to lie, cheat and steal to get a guilty client off. They had no souls or consciences so they slept well at night.
Firing squad.
Sargon,
I agree with your statements regarding this rephrensible excuse for a human beings execution. As one who has had to witness first hand the results this this type of individuals actions, I wholeheartedly agree with the death penalty and its result.
As one who is trying to rise above my own character defects, I work hard at not finding joy in the taking of a life, no matter the reason. I rationalize not lowering myself to this murders level by equating the death penalty to euthanizing a rabid animal. I find no joy in that act and look upon it as a necessary event. Not evil, but probably good because it is sparing another life of pain and misery.
If others believe it is necessary to bestow the same action upon the murderer, then so be it. Fortunately, we are on a forum where others differing opinions are SOMETIMES tolerated.
I am actually inclined towards the heavy slug in the back of the head. Seriously. Quick, effective, cheap.
Biblically, Paul mentions a heavy sword for decapitation.
Tell you the truth, a consolation of the long time between sentencing and death is (I wonder) God’s way of giving them time to repent and then face Him with a pure heart.
I think this is better than the lethal cocktail currently used.
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