Is there a humane way to kill someone?

[Meathead]

There are no humane ways to kill someone. There is a matter of degree.

 

[Meathead]

We, as a nation, don't really want to kill people. Life in prison with no opportunity for parole is just punishment for any "capital" crime.

Why?

This is why:

Cameron Todd Willingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tired crap about a thug who killed his family.

No go

 

[Pennywise]

We, as a nation, don't really want to kill people. Life in prison with no opportunity for parole is just punishment for any "capital" crime.

Why?

This is why:

Cameron Todd Willingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Terrible case, and there are equally terrible cases of people being convicted of vile crimes, sentenced, did their time, and came out to kill again, usually far more heinous than pervious crimes.

There are definitely cases where the punishment is in question, but I can't imagine when guilt is fully established, perhaps even with confessions of serial killers and spree killers (John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy) that there should be any consideration at all as to life in prison. **** that.

 

[OKTexas]

They don't do lethal injections like they did in the good old days.....

That's literally true. The drug companies stopped providing the old lethal injection drugs. This was a new concoction, and has failed twice now.

No they didn't fail, both assholes are dead aren't they? Failure would mean they survived.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Is there a humane way to kill someone?

Quickly, and without them knowing...

 

[kwc57]

Sometimes, a long, slow agonizing death is appropriate. I recommend 60 straight hours of forced listening to Rush Limbaugh tapes.....

Or Rachel Maddow in one ear and her lesbian lover Chris Hayes in the other ear. Nah, that would kill someone in 10 minutes.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

They don't do lethal injections like they did in the good old days.....

That's literally true. The drug companies stopped providing the old lethal injection drugs. This was a new concoction, and has failed twice now.

No they didn't fail, both assholes are dead aren't they? Failure would mean they survived.

Would have been better to shoot them, which I'm okay with, if you are killing people that is which I am not okay with.

 

[kwc57]

The same way we euthanize dogs and cats.

Barbiturates and an anti-seizure drug mix. Go right to sleep.


These state prisons need to hire a competent panel of anesthesiologists and heart specialists. They are making it way harder than it should be -- it's not easy to stop the heart in a non-violent and mostly painless manner, but they keep screwing it up.


Dr. Kevorkian figured it out.

Lethal injections work well when you can get the right mix of quality drugs. The anti-death penalty crowd has made it harder and harder for states to do this by putting enough pressure on the companies that made the drugs to quit selling them to states. They have had to look for alternative drugs. The agonizing deaths can be laid at the feet of the anti-death penalty folks. Ironic, no?

 

[peach174]

Hanging
It's quick and cheap.

 

[R.C. Christian]

We need democrats to volunteer for humane ways to execute criminals! We need to get this right yo.

 

[RandallFlagg]

A .45 to the back of the noggin will ABSOLUTELY do the job. My Problem? It's too good for the majority of these bums. Not one soul has wondered how long the victims of this asshole suffered.....nope.


Frankly, I'm with the family members here. It was GOOD to see the scum bag suffer. Poetic justice.


The end game is this: Give the walking dead the option. Hanging, Firing Squad, Electrocution, or drugs.

 

[occupied]

The law should not be in the vengeance business, the death penalty apparently does not prevent murders, it costs too much and I am of the opinion that far too many innocent people have been executed. I am not necessarily against capital punishment but our present system has far too many flaws.

 

[Borillar]

Sometimes, a long, slow agonizing death is appropriate. I recommend 60 straight hours of forced listening to Rush Limbaugh tapes.....

That or Yoko Ono singing. Not sure which is worse.

 

[flacaltenn]

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer ordered a review of the state's execution process after a convicted double murderer gasped and snorted for more than an hour and a half before his death Wednesday.

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne's office said Joseph Rudolph Wood was pronounced dead at 3:49 p.m. local time, one hour and 57 minutes after the execution started.

Wood's lawyers had filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court while the execution was underway, demanding that it be stopped. The appeal said Wood was "gasping and snorting for more than an hour."

In ordering the review, Brewer said she was concerned by the length of time the administered drug protocol took to kill Wood.

"One thing is certain, however," Brewer's statement continued, "Wood died in a lawful manner and by eyewitness and medical accounts he did not suffer. This is in stark comparison to the gruesome, vicious suffering that he inflicted on his two victims - and the lifetime of suffering he has caused their family."

Family members of Wood's victims said they had no problems with the way the execution was carried out.

Personally I like the Guillotine. Using drugs to induce death is more for the corrections official benefit than an effective way to terminate a life,it just looks more peaceful to those observing the procedure.

In a prepared statment Mr Wood said:

“I take comfort knowing today my pain stops, and I said a prayer that on this or any other day you may find peace in all of your hearts and may God forgive you all,” Wood said as part of his final words, according to the Associated Press.

How Special! ...Buh Bye Now!

Guillotine violates some religious rules on avoidable desecration of the body. Would be challenged. I prefer phasers set to Full..

Someone mentioned Kvorkian. It's a medical research issue and a business opportunity.
Take $10M out of shrimp farming and solve the problem. Something is really really wrong with this story.. AND it's regrettable. But somehow I suspect the govt and lawyers have overstepped their medical authority and put some assinine restrictions on the process.

 

[RandallFlagg]

Sometimes, a long, slow agonizing death is appropriate. I recommend 60 straight hours of forced listening to Rush Limbaugh tapes.....

That or Yoko Ono singing. Not sure which is worse.

Jesus - Even I think that would be inhumane and cruel.......

 

[Borillar]

I am not a fan of the death penalty due to the likelihood of killing an innocent person. But, if death is to be the penalty, make it so that the method of death is the same that was perpetrated on the victim.

 

[occupied]

I am not a fan of the death penalty due to the likelihood of killing an innocent person. But, if death is to be the penalty, make it so that the method of death is the same that was perpetrated on the victim.

The death penalty is not supposed to be motivated by vengeance as it clouds judgement, besides, whoever you get that would willfully duplicate such horrors on the guilty probably deserves to be locked away as well.

 

[Borillar]

I am not a fan of the death penalty due to the likelihood of killing an innocent person. But, if death is to be the penalty, make it so that the method of death is the same that was perpetrated on the victim.

The death penalty is not supposed to be motivated by vengeance as it clouds judgement, besides, whoever you get that would willfully duplicate such horrors on the guilty probably deserves to be locked away as well.

There is some symmetry. Shooting victim --> firing squad. Stabbing victim --> guillotine. Strangling victim --> hanging. Poisoning victim --> lethal injection or gas chamber. Torture --> Listening to Yoko Ono singing until you willingly electrocute yourself.

 

[francoHFW]

If the government believes there are good reasons to murder someone, one shouldn't be surprised citizens decide the same...hello most violent society in the modern world...at least.

 

[Borillar]

If the government believes there are good reasons to murder someone, one shouldn't be surprised citizens decide the same...hello most violent society in the modern world...at least.

Murder =/= death penalty
Murder =/= abortion

That said, we are a violent society. I doubt we are anywhere near the most violent of today's societies though.