If Ohio Is Going To Persist With Capital Punishment Could They Not Find A More Humane Method?

[sandyRoe]

They could hire a headsman from Saudi of the French must have guillotines rusting away somewhere.

http://news.uk.msn.com/world/outcry-at-killers-25-min-execution-1

[brionon]

The problem with Capital Punishment is that some people have been found guilty by mistake. You can't bring a guiltless person back to life !

[ToraToraTora]

we are not debating the ins and outs of capital punishment, merely the method.

[emmie]

mosaic, by and large animals don't behave like this,

[LazyGun]

"mosaic, by and large animals don't behave like this"

So? Unless you are suggesting that we be sanguine about the State torturing those to be executed, so what? Or does the nature of the crime demand that we make them suffer even as we put them down? Talk about barbarism...

[emmie]

i was responding to this Mosaics post below, most in the animal kingdom don't behave this way, he likens the man's crimes as that of a beast, no it isn't, he is a man, who raped and stabbed an innocent woman. killing her and the baby. Generally those in the animal kingdom kill for food, some may do it for rule of the weaker ones, i wasn't advocating anything, i however don't have a great deal of compassion for him as i said already.


" it would be considered truly rotten to make a euthanased animal suffer like that. The man was, certainly at the point of his crime, an animal. It would have been humane to euthanase him quickly and quietly. His punishment should have been to be put down but for society to choose to make him suffer, by long years in jail and a long painful death, reflects very badly on society. We are not all animals even though we have animal instincts.

[Peter Pedant]

eaxctly right Hypo

two Texas state killer sued the Brit Govt in the High Court
see:
R. (on the application of Zagorski) v Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
on whether export of thiopentone was in support of cruel and unusual punishment and therefore contrary to their human rights

and this led onto a world wide famine of Thio.

In the instant case they used Midazolam and hydromorphone
and he didnt die

and a pharmacologist commented - that would be because these drugs were developed to make it hard to kill someone with them.......

[Peter Pedant]

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and the doctors they are getting to assist in these cases dont seem to know much about the drugs they are giving....