Just when we think we have absorbed the terrible details of the botched execution of Clayton Lockett, a new story pops up that adds something to make our sphincter clench tighter than Wayne LaPierre in a Quaker meetinghouse. We cannot add anything to the outrage that others have expressed so eloquently.
The vet was a medical professional and knew what he/she was doing. No medical professionals (physicians, nurses, phlebotomists, etc.) will participate in a lethal injection execution because it violates their fundamental professional ethics, so the deed is performed by non-professionals with minimal training.
Executions in the US are always performed by volunteers. It's the only way. Imagine being the employee who upon arriving for work one day is told by their supervisor, "Gibbons, come over here. I have this thing I'm gonna need you to do today..." You can't exactly call a staff meeting, and then have everyone draw straws for it.
I don't remember who said it, but one of us last week said we should make the governor do it. I think that idea can't be stressed often enough. If you want to literally hold the power of life and death, you oughta be the one who turns out the lights.
Naw, Baldar, not if you just wanted to cap 'em. Obamacare will fix 'em right up! If you were feeling bloodlust, you'd have intended to aim about 5' higher.
If the pain, terror, and suffering (i.e., in wingnut: payback) weren't the point, they'd just poison the inmate at some undetermined time after the final appeal, with something undetectable in his food or something.
The vet was a medical professional and knew what he/she was doing. No medical professionals (physicians, nurses, phlebotomists, etc.) will participate in a lethal injection execution because it violates their fundamental professional ethics, so the deed is performed by non-professionals with minimal training.
Executions in the US are always performed by volunteers. It's the only way. Imagine being the employee who upon arriving for work one day is told by their supervisor, "Gibbons, come over here. I have this thing I'm gonna need you to do today..." You can't exactly call a staff meeting, and then have everyone draw straws for it.
Is that "Doctor" Steverino247?
Catherine the Pretty Good?
I don't remember who said it, but one of us last week said we should make the governor do it. I think that idea can't be stressed often enough. If you want to literally hold the power of life and death, you oughta be the one who turns out the lights.
Naw, Baldar, not if you just wanted to cap 'em. Obamacare will fix 'em right up! If you were feeling bloodlust, you'd have intended to aim about 5' higher.
If the pain, terror, and suffering (i.e., in wingnut: payback) weren't the point, they'd just poison the inmate at some undetermined time after the final appeal, with something undetectable in his food or something.
When electrons attack....
We should no longer tinker with the machinery of death.
Topsy....?
Yes, poor Topsy - and murderous Thomas Edison.
I was expecting something like this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/wat..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNyUVlZ_amE">https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Electrocution: It&#039;s a vicious circuit.
But, Gary, has anybody actually <i>tried</i> death by buttsechs?