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2006-04-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

Lethal injection may cause agony: rights group

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Posted by Fred 2006-04-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I hear a bullet to the base of the brain works.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-04-24 01:28|| 2006-04-24 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Human Rights Watch does not endorse any alternative method but said as long as the death penalty is legal in the United States it wanted to enforce international human rights laws requiring the least possible suffering.

Demonstrations before the Saudi and Chinese embassies in 3,2,1...

BTW, China has been seeling the organs of the people sentenced to death to foreign buyers, something who creates a financial incentive for the regime... Expect HRW to scream sky high about it.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-04-24 06:20|| 2006-04-24 06:20|| Front Page Top

#3 I've done plenty of euathanasia on lab animals using very similar methods, and never once was it painful.

high snark! LOL!

Posted by RD 2006-04-24 06:25|| 2006-04-24 06:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Enough of this crap. I want HANGINGS!

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2006-04-24 07:51|| 2006-04-24 07:51|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree with WC R. If we execute poeple then it should be a punishment and hanging is both traditional and not a nice way to die. The death penalty is not supposed to be nice and painless.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-04-24 08:38|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-04-24 08:38|| Front Page Top

#6 JFM, nah, they're not going to get their panties in a wad over China. China will blow them off, but they know they can always get an audience here.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-04-24 08:38|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-04-24 08:38|| Front Page Top

#7 The problem with the current death penalty is that it gives 3-time losers no incentive to show leniency to their victims. I wonder whether moving to, say, a 3-tier system (hanging, firing squad, lethal injection) could allow one to apply the death penalty in, say, rape cases, while giving the rapist an incentive not to kill his victim. Of course, there's always torture, but I fear that this would be found unconstitutional even by the most conservative of jurists.

Posted by Perfesser 2006-04-24 12:53|| 2006-04-24 12:53|| Front Page Top

#8 When Mr. Wife was doing cancer research, he always petted the mice before killing them. Perhaps the Human Rights Watch people would like to engage in analogous actions? (And no, I do not wish to speculate on what vicious murderers would consider analogous.)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-04-24 14:40|| 2006-04-24 14:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Convicted murderer, Gary Gilmore's final words before being put to death on January 17, 1977, by a volunteer firing squad were --

"Let's do it!"

The countdown began. Gilmore appeared calm. There were three distinct shots. His head went forward into the strap, his right hand delicately lifted, then dropped. The spectators he'd requested to witness the event watched as blood flowed from his heart down his shirt and onto the floor. The doctor went forward to listen, and said that he was still alive. In twenty more seconds, it was over.

The sentence was carried out six months after the murders: on Monday January 17 1977, a few minutes after 8am local time, Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad in a disused cannery in Utah State prison.

Justice was done.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-04-24 16:49|| 2006-04-24 16:49|| Front Page Top

#10 The good people of Utah generally tend to be much less than sympathetic to criminals, particularly murderous ones. I'd say it's about 80-20 solidly in favor of the death penalty. I'm sure that doesn't hurt in keeping the murder total down.

Posted by mac 2006-04-24 17:50|| 2006-04-24 17:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Demonstrations before the Saudi and Chinese embassies in 3,2,1...

They can't raise funds using China and The Magic Kindgom.

Posted by Pappy 2006-04-24 21:21|| 2006-04-24 21:21|| Front Page Top

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