Posted on 06/18/2018 5:33:05 AM PDT by Zakeet
After two recent botched U.S. executions of inmates with compromised veins, a convicted murderer and rapist is arguing he is too ill to be put to death by lethal injection in Texas later this month.
Lawyers for Danny Bible, a 66-year-old inmate set to be executed on June 27, said in a federal court filing in June that his health and vein access were worse than inmates in Alabama and Ohio whose executions were called off after IV placements failed.
The cases have capital punishment critics questioning whether justice is served by executing a person convicted of horrific crimes but who is now too weak or sick to be considered a threat.
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I also never understood the idea of not executing someone with a low IQ. Who cares if the perp “does not understand what is being done to him”?
What? the death penalty is only for strong, healthy criminals? If the decision has been made to execute, then do it, and don’t try to hide what’s happening by claiming that he just goes to sleep and doesn’t wake up.
“You can always get access one way or another. What do you think happens during a life-threatening medical emergency?”
Absolutely, it’s called a central line which can be inserted and then pulled after its’ use.
Hanged. And I'd be OK with that. Or with giving him nice, pure, dry nitrogen to breathe.
Execution should be done within days of sentencing. Don’t give the liars...errr...lawyers time to think up more excuses for keeping their criminal clients breathing.
Or, see my FReeper profile for an alternative to execution...cheap and efficient.
Install a port-0-cath port.
Interesting logic in the article; health is too fragile to die....
In a sealed cell, while the criminal is asleep. No muss, no fuss. He just never wakes up.
Wasn’t Mary Surrat (the only female of the four Lincoln assassination co-conspirators) provided a chair for her hanging?
Good try, Leftist writer from Austin. As though we should feel sympathy for someone nicknamed “The Ice Pick Killer”, for raping and murdering his victims with that weapon. He has lived far too long and will finally pay for his crimes right on schedule.
In theory, the death penalty is morally justified.
However, governments are corrupt and they have way too much power. Just look at the corruption at the Federal level: DOJ, FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF. Had enough?
At the State level just perhaps there are examples of governments with integrity, but I doubt it. The fact is that prosecutors have way too much power, and juries are afraid to exert their sovereign right to nullification.
The leftists will eventually re-gain power. I doubt the they would hesitate to use the death penalty against their political enemies the next time they get their chance. They will fabricate evidence, anything to destroy their opponents.
If you want a painless way for execution, strap someone to a chair or bed and pump C02 into the room until the person becomes unconscious and expires. Painless.
Kind of reminds me of ‘Col Flagg’ of MASH days who would haul someone in to be patched up and put in good enough shape to face the firing squad.
Such a dedicated ‘hero’, he was known to break his own arm if the situation called for it.
Weak veins? Get a rope and tree.
If he’s that frail and in such poor health, then they should just euthanize him as soon as possible to put him out of his misery.
Firing squads need no IVs.
There is a Dutch company selling a euthanasia capsule using liquid nitrogen....States should be buying these and quit this lethal injection nonsense. Starting an IV can be tricky and is not certain. The lethal injection method also takes time. Albert Pierrpont, famous UK hangman, believed that delaying the execution process itself was cruel. He prided himself onbeing able to restain the condemned, fix the noose, place the hood and spring the trap on less than one minute.
He is a serial murderer and rapist infamous for the 1979 ice pick killing of 20-year-old mother.
Can’t find a vein, simply kill him with an ice pick.
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