From Patterico’s fave, the L.A. Times:
Judge calls California’s lethal-injection procedure ‘intolerable’
Intolerable? It’s lethal.
Oh, and since Evan Bayh has announced that he’s not going to make a run for the presidency in 2008, I thought that as a courtesy to all of you I’d do the same. I will not run, and if nominated, will not serve “If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve.â€Â. Ric corrects me, but I wouldn’t serve even if nominated–kind of like Kerry. I’m sorry for any disappointment.
Almost forgot–Joe Malchow has the best post on the Duke professoriat/Nifong rape-case QUAGMIRE, in my unsubstantiated opinion.
Aside from the fact that I really don’t give a shit if a brutal murderer suffers for a bit before he dies, what the fuck is up with the ludicrous way they conduct lethal injections? It’s bizarre, a long, drawn-out sequence of three drugs that can take up to 20 minutes or more to effect death. When my beloved dog was put to sleep the doc just used what is called a “euthanasia solution” which is basically a monster dose of barbituates, the same kind that are used for pre-anesthesia in operations. It was injected into a venous catheter and she never moved, just stopped breathing even before the injection was finished, and her heart stopped a few seconds later.
Seems like half the time in these botched executions it’s because properly trained people like doctors refuse to place the catheters, usually citing the Hippocratic Oath. I wonder how many have read the goddamn thing since they graduated, because there sure are a shitload of doctors who conduct abortions, and here’s the pertinent passage:
“I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art. “
The definition of “cruel and unusual punishment” has gotten so perverted it’s insane. Breaking on the wheel is “cruel and unusual.” Denying prisoners TV is not, and neither is “feeling a burning sensation in the veins after the injection of the solution.” How hard is this for people to grasp?
Maybe they should sentence these assholes to have fluid drawn off their knee. I had it done once after a ski accident and the pain was so bad I passed out, they only time in my life I’ve ever felt pain like that. Every day agonizing treatments are carried out in hospitals, from wound debridement to organ biopsies and you’re lucky if you get a goddamn tylenol. Give these murderous fuckers five or six demerols, a shot of whisky, and a fentanyl patch and then poke away all you like, they ain’t gonna know shit.
I’m pissed.
Fucking liberals must die.
Check out the letter drafted by the Duke English professors. A narrative is crafted in advance of the facts that steers perception towards a manufactured reality that stands in sharp contrast to the facts that eventually become known. It could be true- in the reality based community where facts are a nuisance that get in the way of the lesson to be taught.
Evidently today’s lesson is on white privilege and how it permeates our institutions of higher learning and oppresses the other. The fact that the act never happened as described is just one of those details that gets in the way of the lesson.
As Jeff Jarvis observed:
Lessons, baby, lessons.
Dan, the correct phraseology is “if nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve.” You did however get the historically-correct meaning of the statement.
Regards,
Ric
I vote for bringing back the guillotine. I garuntee that there is no “burning sensation” associated with it.
But apparently, so someone has claimed, death isn’t instantaneous even with the guillotine.
That being the case, my vote is for stoning. If it worked in caveman days, it’s good enough for the cavemen-wannabes that we’ve been having to execute these days.
That being the case, my vote is for stoning. If it worked in caveman days, it’s good enough for the cavemen-wannabes that we’ve been having to execute these days.
Nope. Build the worlds biggest trebuche and launch the guilty party to their death. Shit just looks cool when it’s fired from one of those things. Bets could be placed on how far they go.
Hmmmmm…
Of course, the acceleration needed to ensure death every time, might itself lead to death just getting the … ammunition … airborne.
Perhaps it could be an airplane-mounted weapon instead?