No reason now not to get on with business ...
Posted on 06/29/2015 7:22:30 AM PDT by Zakeet
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday against three death row inmates who had sought to bar the use of an execution drug they said risked causing excruciating pain.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote the majority opinion in the 5-to-4 decision. He was joined by the court’s four more conservative justices.
The drug, the sedative midazolam, played a part in three long and apparently painful executions last year. It was used in an effort to render inmates unconscious before they were injected with other, severely painful drugs.
Four condemned inmates in Oklahoma challenged the use of the drug, saying it did not reliably render the person unconscious and so violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Lower courts disagreed.
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No reason now not to get on with business ...
They deserve excruciating pain.
The same four justices that always vote for whatever is fashionable in left wing politics continue to vote as such.
Their reasoning? Only the thinnest veneer of reason often completely absurd.
.....their pain will be eternal unless they realize their folly.
Would love to hear their conversations among friends....yes, I have some stomach drugs I’d have to take!
Alito is considered more liberal than Kennedy?
I can't keep track...
Versed (midazolam) works just fine.
The problem is the patency of the line.
I had a minor procedure last month - off to see the wizard immediately with no memory of the event (not that that matters in this situation).
Bingo - nothing works as good as midazolam. And no one can maintain consciousness 15 seconds after initiation of a GOOD (patent) IV line infusion.
I love the reference to "painful medications". What a buncha hooey. Ok maybe if they were using suppositories? on nvrmind
They have clearly outed themselves. They are not impartial jurists by any stretch of the imagination.
Those 4 are modern day Roland Frieselers'.
Probably want to guarantee that opponents of Obamacare and gay marriage can be executed eventually...(joking...I think...)
No, Alito is (correctly) considered more conservative than Kennedy. The author’s use of the phrase “joined by the court’s four more conservative justices” was shoddy writing; he meant that Alito’s opinion had been joined by the other four justices that, along with Alito, comprise the Court’s “more conservative justices.”
SCOTUS.
Most likely.
However, to remove the expense of continually having to defend this kind of thing in court, states should implement a nitrogen chamber. Stuff the condemned in the chamber, fill it with nitrogen, wait half an hour, then cart them out. It's simple, cheaper than dirt, completely painless, and quite effective.
My personal lack of confidence in the American legal system causes me to not support the death penalty as fully as I once did, but if you're going to do it, this is the best way. The condemned won't even know he's dead. He drifts off to sleep rather quickly, and wakes up with a demon standing on his chest. If, through some serious miscarriage of justice, an innocent man was convicted, he isn't forced to suffer needlessly, and will get his just reward in the afterlife.
The state shouldn't be at the mercy of drug companies or whackjobs in these instances.
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“Strap them down, face down, and give the the same procedure they do in ‘partial-birth abortion’.”
Or they could be deprived of water as liberals insisted and the Supreme Court failed to prevent, in the case of Terri Schiavo. Liberals claimed it was “peaceful”.
But I am okay with this drug being used on our tyrannical would-be overlords when we try them for treason.
Shoddy writing for the Grey Lady?!! So it isn’t so!
Thanks. It’s good to know I’m not that far out of touch...
If someone is on death row, why are they worried about their pain? Did they worry about their victims pain? A bullet behind the head won’t be painful, as there were never any complaints about it by the condemned. Want to complain about pain? Try the cage and fire execution that ISIS uses. The old bullet method is the most economical.
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