[Jim Noble]

I’m a doctor and a supporter of capital punishment.

I would pull the trigger, open the trap, throw the switch, turn on the gas, swing the axe.

I would never ever participate in a medical execution.

[kingu]

I’m a doctor and a supporter of capital punishment. I would pull the trigger, open the trap, throw the switch, turn on the gas, swing the axe. I would never ever participate in a medical execution.

Nor should there be a medical execution. We've gotten to this point because we're squishy. We want it to be neat and clean and humans aren't neat and clean. Murderers don't kindly put their victims to sleep, or give them decades to argue against their self imposed fate.

I've heard people say that other methods are barbaric; of course they are! You are killing another human being. ANYTHING will be barbaric in looks.

But I always ask the same question: Which is more barbaric? Holding an 80 year old Alzheimer's patient for what he did 60 years before and no longer can remember? Or quickly ending his life while he and the victim's family can both know why it is happening?

The worst sentence I can ever imagine is life in prison with no hope of parole.

[Slings and Arrows]

I’m a doctor and a supporter of capital punishment.

I would pull the trigger, open the trap, throw the switch, turn on the gas, swing the axe.

I would never ever participate in a medical execution.

Replace "doctor" with "pharmacy student," and add me to the list.