Executions - Now We're Just Winging It

[TheHamburglar]

Since Europe stopped selling us pentobarbital we're now just winging it.  My dumbass state royally effed up an execution today.  Aborted an execution 20 minutes in because the guy's vein exploded while administering a new combo of compounded drugs.  The guys finally died of a heart attack 2 hours later. 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/29/us/oklahoma-botched-execution/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[wetwillie]

 This Charles Warner guy that got a stay of execution for a few days has to be all

[michigancat]

Ya know, I don't think the government should murder people.

[Spracne]

Ya know, I don't think the government should murder people.

I think you should stop murdering people, if that's how you feel.

[OK_Cat]

eff this state and the awful governor

[TheHamburglar]

eff this state and the awful governor

It really is bad.  Her one big thing was education reform and that's been nothing but three years of one clusterfuck after another.  That other guy is going to get an indefinite stay just so she doesn't get anymore bad publicity after the clusterfuck that's been state education testing the last month.

Also, should be noted that it's now our state allowing a compounding pharmacy to make these knock-off drugs and sell them to other states.

[OK_Cat]

And no matter what, she will be re-elected by derplahomans

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

They should contract out the execution to planned parenthood. Just a snip of the spine (smash the skull if the doesn't work) and dispose the inmate as medical waste.  It's a woman's right to privacy to do it that way.

[kim carnes]

oh man, i feel awful for this poor guy.   

[OK_Cat]

Government has no business killing people, especially a state like Oklahoma that shoves religion down your throat 24/7.

[kim carnes]

if only there was a way he could have avoided this horrible fate

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

They should just kill him the same way he killed his victim. Obviously it was more effective and humane than what the state tried.

[michigancat]

They should just kill him the same way he killed his victim. Obviously it was more effective and humane than what the state tried.

Yes, we should make the governor or judge who ordered the execution carry it out in this manner.

[bubbles4ksu]

did you know that part of the reason governments moved on from hanging is that people's heads kept popping off?

we popped the head off a guy during the US-supervised hangings of saddam and crew. that was 2007 and we couldn't get the physics right.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

Government has no business killing people, especially a state like Oklahoma that shoves religion down your throat 24/7.

Enough with your war on women, sexist pig.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Why not give them a heroin overdose? It seems to be effective and pleasant.

[puniraptor]

Why not give them a heroin overdose? It seems to be effective and pleasant.

Pretty good idea.

[bubbles4ksu]

i'm strongly against the death penalty and solitary confinement. society has come far enough for those practices to be considered cruel and unusual. however, i also understand that many of these people are so mumped by the time that they're eight years old that they'll never be able to having anything approaching normal human relations. tough problems to reconcile...but we should stop winging executions in the meantime.

[theKSU]

I'm against the Death Penalty on moral grounds in that I think they are state-sanctioned revenge killings, and they typically don't help the victim's family psychologically as seemingly intended. Studies have shown it is not a deterrent. It's very obvious that it is applied to minorities at a much higher rate than to white people. 1/25 of those killed were actually innocent of the crime they were convicted of. And now we can't even do this procedure properly.

How many reasons do we need to end this practice? Oh yeah it appeals broadly to tough on crime politicians and the stand your ground-types. This is the mentality that turned America into the biggest prison state in the world by a large margin. If our Supreme Court weren't packed with Bush appointees, we might have a chance to ban the Death Penalty. I doubt it happens for a couple more decades, though.

[Stevesie60]

Why not give them a heroin overdose? It seems to be effective and pleasant.

I realize the government would have a ton of heroine that they confiscated during one of their drug busts, but it's pretty funny to think of a government employee buying heroine from a drug dealer for an execution.

[star seed 7]

Death penalty should be extended to more crimes. It should also be carried out correctly.

[waks]

Expensive and pointless practice.

[star seed 7]

Putting someone in prison until they finally die is more inhumane than just going ahead and killing them

[waks]

Putting someone in prison until they finally die is more inhumane than just going ahead and killing them

Exactly. Let those fuckers rot in prison under the guise that it is more humane.

Side note: it's definitely not more inhumane than attempting to execute someone, "exploding" their vein in the process, and giving them a heart attack two hours later.

[star seed 7]

Putting someone in prison until they finally die is more inhumane than just going ahead and killing them

Exactly. Let those fuckers rot in prison under the guise that it is more humane.

Side note: it's definitely not more inhumane than attempting to execute someone, "exploding" their vein in the process, and giving them a heart attack two hours later.

well yeah, that part is not good