Inmate protests execution drugs as worse than a firing squad [Ricky Gray, VA]

Associated Press ^ | Dec 14, 2016 5:34 PM EST | Alanna Durkin Richer

[Secret Agent Man]

id amend the law and grant him that firing squad.

[Secret Agent Man]

but in my firing squad every gun has a live round. that bastard is not going to have any chance of living.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Probably should be executed the same way he killed his victims if he declines the chemical choice.

[a fool in paradise]

What efforts did the perp take to make sure that the mother, father, and two young daughters were dead (from repeated beatings) before setting their house ablaze?

[a fool in paradise]

The companies that make euthanasia drugs for hospitals around the world refuse to sell them for executions.

How crooked.

Not all of those hospital deaths are made in sound mind or with full consent (the insurance company will pay for the death shot but not the treatment for your cancer).

[umgud]

The constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, it does not guarantee a completely execution.

[Cementjungle]

Fine, cancel the lethal injection and send him into the wood chipper instead. Feet first.

[Grimmy]

Bring back hanging.

[redfreedom]

Let him have his way, just put a bullet in his brain and be done with it.

[taxcontrol]

Nitrogen Asphyxiation

[Osage Orange]

I say...hang um high!

[sargon]

I agree. When the State kills a person via execution, the act should be overtly violent.

I truly despise the idea of executions performed by "medical" personnel. It's simply too clinical and impersonal.

Executing someone is a violent act, and the State should always be reminded that that is exactly what is happening. Such an act should never be divorced from its violent nature...

[terycarl]

offer the inmate the same sedative that he/she offered their victim....

[terycarl]

drop him out of an airplane, over the ocean, from about 30,000 feet....bye-bye.

[Ouderkirk]

I oppose public executions....just not a good idea.

This idea that an execution should be painless is crazy talk. It should not be painful for the expressed purpose of inflicting pain. The expressed purpose is their death, if they experience a little pain in accomplishing that, oh well. Obviously no concern for his victims and what they suffered at his hands.

This POS got more life after the murders than two of his victims lived. He should have been executed the day after he was sentenced to death. The wages of sin is death.

[R_Kangel]

Well, ... I suppose there are always the Executional Hanging and various Guilotinic methods if those drugs and Firing Squad methods don’t work out.

[GailA]

What BS, just OD them on Morphine. Or the same assisted suicide drugs they are trying to use on chronically ill patients, they have brainwashed into thinking it’s a way out.

[arthurus]

So shoot him.

[arthurus]

So shoot him.

[zeugma]

The fact that this is even an issue any more is a sign that no one wants the "controversy" around the death penalty to end. It provides talking points to both sides, so neither want to have anything to do with actually doing anything to solve the problem. The solution is so simple even a politician should understand it. You have an air-tight room. Put the prisoner in it. Pump it full of nitrogen. After 30 minutes you cycle normal air in and take the body to the morgue. The person being executed won't even notice that he died, because nitrogen doesn't trigger any response in your body that you're in imminent threat of death. 80% of our atmosphere is nitrogen. It is not a toxic substance, and is easy to distill and compress into cylinders for use.

The fact that it's not commonly used for execution is proof that both democrats and republicans are playing the public on the issue.