Posted on 01/26/2024 12:26:32 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
As always, this needs PERSPECTIVE to eliminate attempts at bias
This was during the period of the Papal States, when the Church controlled about 1/3 of what is present day Italy.
It amounts to about 7 executions a year - for things like rape, robbing and murdering pilgrims, etc....
Also look at what was common in other European nations and tradition at the time,
More intrusion into State powers to decide
“deeply troubled” after Alabama executed a man using nitrogen gas
Next time use fentanyl, they are OK with that.
Another case, of the Federal Gov’t demanding STATES all submit to a Federal Gov’t. Why not just get rid of State Legislatures and Governors.
Sorry to offend anyone. Modern day Catholic Popes emphasize avoiding the penalty.
In January 1999, Pope John Paul II, without changing Catholic teaching, appealed for a consensus to end the death penalty on the ground that it was “both cruel and unnecessary”. He said that criminal offenders should be offered “an incentive and help to change his or her behavior and be rehabilitated”.
The only true part of that statement is “the White House is deeply troubled”.
White House not concerned about the condemned man’s crime of serving as murderer for hire.
The laws against “cruel and unusual punishment” were written to prevent KEELHAULING (being dragged naked under a ships hull over barnacles, which the British navy did regularly) or being DRAWN AND QUARTERED (having your limbs tied stoutly to four departing horses until you were rent asunder.) If you told the Founders that “gently drifting off to sleep” was MEAN, they would have laughed in your face at your nievate and ignorance. The Founders favored a short fast drop or a firing squad on the public green to educate children that some crimes are so heinous the will get you the ultimate penalty. A mad dog needs to be put down.
Maybe they should take a different approach because this back and forth crap with lawsuits everywhere is getting tiresome.
FURLOUGH everyone one on DEATH ROW, Ship them to Delaware and DC with the promise that a DEAD OR ALIVE bounty is on their head should they ever return to the State.
Joe just can’t stay in his lane and keep out of state issues.
I have been anesthetized several times(first time in 1942 when Mom dripped ether into a tea strainer for the Doc to painlessly set my broken arm) and can attest to the fact it is near instant and totally painless and I could have been dispatched in any number of ways while unconscious, so cut the cr@p and admits they don't want to execute anyone but Trump and his supporters.
Unless he’s some sort of biologically abnormal specimen, he was dead right after he stopped holding his breath. The fact they waited around to officially provide a time of death doesn’t mean he was actually alive for that time.
Hooking him up to a cheap carbon dioxide monitoring device would be super simple, as well as a cardiac monitor to see when he stops breathing and when his heart actually stops.
And he’s the one who picked this method in the first place.
BINGO! we have a winner. Ive been part of many confined space teams. and worked with rescue squad members.
N2 is a silent killer. You pass out and crumple. no thrashing or panicking. you just DRT.. dead right there.
Americans deeply troubled by MURDERERS !!!
Shoulda used fentanyl — Democrats and open borders RINOs would be toasting it.
Yes, sadly.
Which only shows how messed up they truly are.
If there’s such a thing as a “humane” execution, this is it. There is no gasping for breath, because the body continues to exhale carbon dioxide with every breath. However, the inhaled air contains no oxygen.
Maybe they should decorate the execution chamber to look like a uterus
Nah, they were upset that we’re not to be able to use the method first.
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