Killing People Is Harder Than You'd Think
It was death by apnea. And it went on for an hour and a half. I made a pencil stroke on a pad of paper, each time his mouth opened, and ticked off more than 640, which was not all of them, because the doctor came in at least four times and blocked my view.
I turned to my friend Troy Hayden, the anchor and reporter from Fox 10 News, who was sitting next to me. Troy and I witnessed another execution together in 2007, and he had seen one before that, so he also knows what it looks like.
"I don't think he's going to die," I said.
A moment later, Troy turned to me and whispered, "I think you're right."
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If he'd killed a family member of mine it wouldn't have taken me that long to snuff the asshole...
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This is what happens when more efficient and effective means of killing are intentionally excluded specifically to generate this sort of emotionally charged/ intellectually void headline and reactions by a minority of folks with an agenda they cannot advance using conventional means.
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What's more cruel and unusual, death serum via IV from the lowest bidder, or a fucking 1 dollar bullet to the temple? Just shoot the motherfuckers. Christ.
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Or light them on fire. These murderers didn't care about the suffering of their victims. Why should we care about theirs? They're getting off easy in comparison.
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I love it when people talk about "what they would do" to someone if they killed or raped a family member. Hypothetical murder of family member tough guys.. You'd do what 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of everyone else does and watch the legal process handle it.RaccoonHarry said:If he'd killed a family member of mine it wouldn't have taken me that long to snuff the asshole...
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It really surprises me that no US company has started to manufacture the necessary drugs for the lethal injection cocktail - in particular sodium thiopental. Whatever your feelings on the death penalty, companies and countries that oppose it would seem to have the right to refuse to sell sodium thiopental if they believed the drug was going to be used in lethal injections.
I think these repeated failures in the execution chamber are going to open a door for a successful 8th Amendment challenge. -
Another long-term victory won through repeated, short-term incompetence.AZDuck said:It really surprises me that no US company has started to manufacture the necessary drugs for the lethal injection cocktail - in particular sodium thiopental. Whatever your feelings on the death penalty, companies and countries that oppose it would seem to have the right to refuse to sell sodium thiopental if they believed the drug was going to be used in lethal injections.
I think these repeated failures in the execution chamber are going to open a door for a successful 8th Amendment challenge.
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Each state should be free to choose its death penalty policy. Each state should also have the freedom to ship their killers off to Texas to get executed. -
Maybe I can make some up in my bathtub.AZDuck said:It really surprises me that no US company has started to manufacture the necessary drugs for the lethal injection cocktail - in particular sodium thiopental. Whatever your feelings on the death penalty, companies and countries that oppose it would seem to have the right to refuse to sell sodium thiopental if they believed the drug was going to be used in lethal injections.
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That's pretty fucking funny.oregonblitzkrieg said:
Each state should be free to chose its death penalty policy. Each state should also have the freedom to ship their killers off to Texas to get executed.
