Anyone who believes that what he did and what the state did to him are even comparable is an idiot. The product of American public schools, no doubt.
The 8th Amendment prohibits "cruel and unusual" punishment. Consider that the guillotine was considered quite progressive in its day for its quick and humane killing, was in existence at the time of the passage of the 8th amendment, and would have been perfectly fine for the Founding Fathers, had anyone asked them. And BTW, we have yet to invent anything better for quick, painless executions.
The death penalty in the 20th and 21st centuries is a classic illustration of Liberalism in action.
Throughout the life of this Republic, the majority of citizens have strongly supported the death penalty, as a final and definitive punishment for those who commit the most heinous crimes. Furthermore, the Constitution specifically condones the death penalty in at least two places, where it refers to citizens being deprived of life legitimately by the state.
But Liberals (and Progressives, if there is any difference) don't like the Constitution when it disagrees with their own omnipotent wisdom, and couldn't care less about the Will of the Majority, whom they hold in perpetual contempt. Nor do they give a fig about the laws of the United States and/or the 50 individual states, when those laws are offensive to Them.
Knowing that they could never in a Brazillion years gather up the public support to abolish the DP by Constitutional Amendment, either at the federal level or in more than a few queer, unusual states, they have mounted a decades long campaign to thwart the DP in the Courts, where you don't need a majority, and don't require - unfortunately - either the laws or the Constitution to back you. You just make your ******* ruling and take 50 or a 100 pages writing an "opinion" that justifies turning the laws, the constitution, the decision of the trial court, and the will of the people on their respective ears.
The infamous and idious justices Brennan and Marshal frequently wrote in their opinions that if they had their choice they would simply abolish the DP by judicial fiat! **** the Constitution. **** the laws. **** the judges and juries who put their hearts and souls into reaching the conclusion they did.
WE DON'T LIKE IT, therefore, we will do whatever it takes to prevent it.
What was the great State of Ohio doing experimenting with a new execution drug? Trying to work around the liberal assholes who had placed countless obstacles in front of the state, trying to prevent it from doing what it is legally, constitutionally, morally, ethically, and by popular will entitled to do!
And if the survivors of this human piece of excrement can find a Liberal judge to present their civil case to, they can suck a few million more from the taxpayers of Ohio, making this even more of a cluster **** than it already is.
Liberals.
There ought to be a "season" on 'em, like deer and blackbears.