""A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" ~George Bernard Shaw
The whole thing is convoluted. From your link:
Since the mid-1990s, when lethal injection replaced electrocution as America’s favored method of execution, states have found drug combinations that they trust to quickly and painlessly end a life. They often use three drugs. The first is an anesthetic, to render the prisoner unconscious. The second is a paralytic. The third, potassium chloride, stops the heart.
Instead of all that -- why not use ONLY the drug that stops the heart? Boom. Over.
Why all the messing around?
Might foregoing the anesthetic be painful? Perhaps, but who among us is guaranteed a pain-free death? Even seen a person die from cancer? Aids? In a car wreck? Not painless deaths.
I'm not advocating going out of our way to torture a prisoner before putting him to death -- but let's just inject the potassium chloride and be done with it. And, why would we EVER not give a high enough dose?
Make all death sentence doses sufficient to kill a 1000 lb. man and there will never be another mistake.
All this silliness surrounding this issue. Let's just do it and do it right.
""A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" ~George Bernard Shaw
resister (03-19-2017)
Why not use a rope? Why not use the gas chamber? Why not use a firing squad? Well, because someone wants to kill murderers kindly.
Dudley, no one who was executed ever killed another person. People sentenced to life, or less, have. And who knows if we'll get another president who hates us and has an orgy of releasing prisoners before he leaves the White House.
resister (03-19-2017)
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
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