There is no Humane Execution

[mammastalkin]

There Is No ‘Humane’ Execution

Published: December 13, 2009
This is what passes for progress in the application of the death penalty: Kenneth Biros, a convicted murderer, was put to death in Ohio last week with one drug, instead of the more common three-drug cocktail. It took executioners 30 minutes to find a vein for the needle, compared with the two hours spent hunting for a vein on the last prisoner Ohio tried to kill, Romell Broom. Technicians tried about 18 times to get the needle into Mr. Broom’s arms and legs before they gave up trying to kill him. Mr. Biros was jabbed only a few times in each arm.
Ohio adopted the single-drug formula after the botched execution. It may well be an improvement over the three-drug cocktail, or may not. (Death penalty advocates who hailed it as less painful have no way, obviously, of knowing that.) But the execution only reinforced that any form of capital punishment is legally suspect and morally wrong.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/op...mon2.html?_r=2

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[lisainengland]

No execution will ever be humane. Every murder a state commits in the name of so called "justice" brings pain and suffering to so many people.As for the new one drug injection being humane, well who knows. Its not like they are going to ask the poor person strapped to the gurney. The humane answer to this is to stop the death penalty FULL STOP !!!

[skyman]

May I ask what your prefered punishment is for those who would normally be put to death?

[mollymop]

There will never be a human way to kill a person.

[JJS811]

There have been numerous reports done, that show the three cocktail of drugs may not render the inmate unconscious for a long enough time for the other two drugs to stop the breathing then heart painlessly. There was a study done in California on executed inmates which showed that in terms of weight of the inmate most did not have enough Sodium Thiopental. That would make the inmate aware of the effects of the Pancuronium bromide used to paralyse. So when the Potassium chloride was injected the inmate would feel themselves slowly die as the heart stops. They would suffocate and feel it, but be unable to communicate that due to the paralysing effects of the Pancuronium bromide.

This is simply not a humane death, it is cruel and unusual in the extreme!

[Novembermorning]

Originally Posted by skyman

May I ask what your prefered punishment is for those who would normally be put to death?

Imprisonment is adequate, if necessary lifelong and the society is protected also.
So, for what reason should we kill nonetheless?

Killing a defenseless person is inhuman in itself, be it a murder or an execution - it´s not better solely because it`s legal.