Posted on 05/01/2014 11:56:15 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
US states may go back to electric chair and firing squads
Shortage of drugs for lethal injections leads states to consider alternative methods of executing prisoners
By Raf Sanchez, Washington
6:42PM BST 01 May 2014
US states may revert to killing their death row inmates with electric chairs, firing squads and gas chambers as it becomes increasingly difficult to source chemicals for lethal injections.
The EU has banned the export of one of the most common sedatives used in lethal injections, forcing US states to experiment with new "cocktails" of drugs for executions.
One such experimental recipe was used in the botched execution of an Oklahoma prisoner on Tuesday, leaving him to writhe in pain and die of a massive heart attack 43 minutes after being injected.
The shortage of execution drugs, coupled with fears the courts may intervene to ban experimental methods of lethal injection, have prompted states to look at alternative ways to kill prisoners.
Tennessee's legislature has passed a bill that would reintroduce the electric chair if the state was unable to find drugs for lethal injections.
The state's Republican governor is still weighing whether to sign it into law.
Missouri is considering a proposal to reintroduce both firing squads and gas chambers if it becomes impossible to carry out a lethal injection.
Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Centre, said the laws were intended as symbols by conservative politicians of their commitment to the death penalty.
"It's about being even more blatant than the anti-death penalty side. To see this as a rational process is to miss the harshly divisive political atmosphere that produces these things," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Hang them in public and get it over with!
Acme would have been my first choice as well. Ideally suited for the most heinous felon, the various near fatal actions would provide for plenty of false hope, not to mention endless amusement as well as revenue when broadcast PPV. A suitable final send off would be the casting into a pit filled with starving Canadian Grey wolves accompanied by a rousing chorus of National Park Rangers singing, “ Don’t worry, be happy, there’re no recorded wolf attacks on record.”
I must be missing something basic. Maybe there’s a Freeper medical professional who can answer this:
Couldn’t the lethal injection be done with an opiate? If so, wouldn’t it be painless? It seems to me (as a layman) that an intentional overdose of heroin or morphine would work.
“Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed;
For in the image of God
He made man.
(Gen. 9:6)
The government can’t kill people it wants to kill, kills people it shouldn’t kill, and can’t even run a whorehouse in Nevada.
Better give them power over the health insurance industry... Oh wait.
As far as that person receiving Jesus, that is really between him and the Lord, not the state.
What has already been paid for is our "debt" to God. Like I said, that does not mean you don't have to suffer the physical consequences of your sin.
I think you are confusing spiritual death, or the second death, meaning hell for eternity and physical death, the first death, that relates to our bodies.
Like some other poster quoted, "But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil" (Ro. 13:4).
Of course, civil law is necessary, but I argue against “punishment” as a justification for CP and believe the effort should be towards protecting society.
Have you thought that bleeding heart liberals like you are the reason this execution was botched and the prisoner suffered? Drug companies are afraid of being openly involved with executions, probably concerned about boycotts, so they refuse to sell the drugs that enabled the states to kill painlessly.
you’re off to good start
You're certainly entitled, but it is called a penal system.
I don't understand how DNA is used to free innocent people from 'death row' in a matter of weeks, but on the flip side, DNA is never good enough to execute someone in a manner of years.
How about 3 appeals or 5 years, whichever comes first?
Except in the case of "honor killings", where it was the family that ordered the killing.
How about putting a plastic bag over their heads?
Got me there.
Thank you. I don’t agree with your reasoning but at least understand your point of view better.
Crime is not sin. It is a mistake to equate them I think.
Do you think of all crimes as not deserving punishment, or just capital crimes?
Crime is sin in the eyes of God, unless it is a crime defined by man which opposes the law of God.
Executing murderers and rapists IS the right thing.
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