Leading off his second episode with a reminder that Last Week Tonight has a "long, proud, one-week history" of covering the week's biggest story, John Oliver recognizes that's not necessarily a laff riot when the biggest story is a botched execution in Oklahoma.
Hannity said he'd get waterboarded to show torture isn't so bad. Maybe he'll try a botched execution* to make the same point. ___________________________________ * death by votes, like what happened to Mittens
He got a lethal dose of otassium chloride, which did what it was expected to do: cause cardiac arrest. The drugs that were supposed to make it easy on him, not so much.
Bit of a cause-and-effect problem with that analysis . . . The One-Star State has a lot of violent crime, which keeps the public howling for blood.
Not so with <a href="http:\/\/changelog.ca\/quote\/2012\/06\/13\/existence_of_death_penalty_does_not_affect_murder_rate" target="_blank">this data. </a> Canada&#039;s homicide rate has run parallel to that of the US, year after year, with and without the death penalty. It has no measurable effect, plain and simple.
I think the general public&#039;s take on this is that this wasn&#039;t botched so long as he died.
Hannity said he&#039;d get waterboarded to show torture isn&#039;t so bad. Maybe he&#039;ll try a botched execution* to make the same point. ___________________________________ * death by votes, like what happened to Mittens
Happy! Nice! Time! Torturing people to death!
Maddow made a persuasive case the other night that they just smothered the guy with a pillow when the meds didn&#039;t work.
He got a lethal dose of otassium chloride, which did what it was expected to do: cause cardiac arrest. The drugs that were supposed to make it easy on him, not so much.
Bit of a cause-and-effect problem with that analysis . . . The One-Star State has a lot of violent crime, which keeps the public howling for blood.
Not so with <a href="http:\/\/changelog.ca\/quote\/2012\/06\/13\/existence_of_death_penalty_does_not_affect_murder_rate" target="_blank">this data. </a> Canada&#039;s homicide rate has run parallel to that of the US, year after year, with and without the death penalty. It has no measurable effect, plain and simple.
That&#039;s news.
I believe the answer to your questions is &quot;Oklahoma&quot;. Or, to be more specific, &quot;Mary Fallin&quot;.
It&#039;s possible that this is cute like a squirrel, until it opens its mouth...