Study: Inmates suffer during lethal injections

Houston Chronicle ^ | April 14, 2005 | ERIC BERGER

[Conservative Goddess]

"Whether or not it is painful, one thing is for sure, it is certainly less painful than the excruciating and horrific death that the victim suffered at the hand of the defendant."

This struck me immediately as the important fact, that seems to have been lost on the liberals.

[Unicorn]

Public hanging

[chainsaw]

As many as four of every 10 prisoners put to death in the United States might receive inadequate anesthesia, causing them to remain conscious and experience blistering pain during a lethal injection.

OMG it only last for a few seconds. Do they tape the scum screaming and yelling? If not, why not?

[chainsaw]

Doesn't Fl use "Old Sparky" anymore?

Every time they threw the switch, sparks would fly. Now that is justice.

[ko_kyi]

Why don't they just increase the dosage of anesthetic? They certainly can't be concerned about giving them a lethal dose

I suspect it takes a lot longer, with variation in how long any given individual will last. The Potassium chloride interferes with the heartbeat and will kill anyone of any size immediately.

[DH]

Execution of murders should be performed in exactly the same manner and within the same periods of horror and suffering that their victims experienced.  Who gives a damn if they suffer?  Did they worry about their victims suffering and pain?

These are animals that have to be destroyed.  Our liberal and weak society now worries more about their "feelings" than the fact that these people perpetrated an unspeakable horror on some poor individual.

 

[ops33]

"Is there a possibility of awareness during an execution?"

I thought that was the point!

[piperpilot]

Well said. I hope they all are aware and in excruciating pain as they are executed.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Awareness for all is a good idea.

The 1936 hanging of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro, Kentucky -- the last public execution in the United States. (Courtesy: The Last Public Execution in America)

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

As many as four of every 10 prisoners put to death in the United States might receive inadequate anesthesia, causing them to remain conscious and experience blistering pain during a lethal injection.

We're slipping! It should read "As many as 10 of every 10 murderers . . . "

Or in the words of a well know country singer "My give a damn's busted!"

[corlorde]

Oh yeah, I'm all broken up over the poor suffering of mass murderers, rapists, and child killers.

lol

[Personal Responsibility]

I sure hope this was an article that was supposed to make me feel better. Anyone who has gotten to the point of execution has earned some pain.

[wita]

I think sparks flew fairly often, but the one that caused all the furor was when it started a fire. I pictured the execution in the movie Green Mile.

[Arrowhead1952]

As many as four of every 10 prisoners put to death in the United States might receive inadequate anesthesia, causing them to remain conscious and experience blistering pain during a lethal injection.

SO????

"It's now up to the corrections systems to show that, at the time of death, inmates are asleep.

Like the killer made sure the victim didn't feel any pain. This has B$ written all over it and I think someone had too much booze to worry about executions.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

A simple hanging would end the 'controversy.'

[Beckwith]

So?

[rollo tomasi]

Reality: Victims suffer while being murdered.

Stupidity: People who think convicted murderers have more rights than their victims. (I am talking about the guilty based on solid evidence)

[daddyOwe]

They suffer? Too Bad!

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Then put them to sleep and execute them with a bullet."

why waste time? a bullet and it is over. no pain, no awareness.

[chimera]

"It would be a cruel way to die: awake, paralyzed, unable to move, to breathe, while potassium burned through your veins."

Well, if it's the burning effect they are worried about, that should be enough to get a good number of the abortion procedures performed every day in this country stopped. I wonder if these people would object to the condemned having their skin burned off with saline solution?

But that won't stop them from killing babies. A condemned murderer is still a person, and, for a liberal, worth saving, while the unborn are non-persons and only deserve death because another person says so.