Uhh… Really? I think blood bonds with oxygen more easily than carbon dioxide. I’m pretty sure our whole circulatory system is based on that premise. Might you be thinking of carbon monoxide? That would do what you describe, and by all accounts it’s quite a painless death- just dropping off to sleep.
Dude, I cannot believe that you typed these words with a straight face.
Do you know that the word “painless” means “without pain”?
Do you understand that feeling “a slight surge of pain” is not “painless”? WTF?
Hang on a second: are you telling me my opinion is wrong or just the argument I used to support it? If you’re doing the former, you’re being asinine… my opinion, being an opinion, is no more wrong than yours. But in my OP, I said the prisoner didn’t suffer an extraordinary level of pain because he only recieved a few needle sticks. I didn’t take the psychological aspect of a failed execution attempt into consideration, which is kind of the *definition *of incomplete: lacking a part.
On the other hand, I didn’t say anything in my answer to question number 2 that was actually wrong. So if you’re saying that answer was wrong, I can only say this: The prisoner was poked by a needle, which is not painful. Aside from mishandled blood donations, I’ve also had IVs given to me by other bomb technicians in Combat Lifesaver courses. I think I have a fairly low pain tolerance, but even the worst stick I’ve ever been given wasn’t painful as much as it was inconvenient and uncomfortable.
I admit that I didn’t take all kinds of pain into account in my OP. If Ohio is the only State that has the requirement for a quick and painless execution, and they are also concerned with the psychological pain involved in telling someone that they are going to kill them, they either need to abolish the death penalty or amend their constitution.
Can you clarify this sentence at all? I just didn’t understand it the way you worded it.
Sorry for my self-contradiction. I should have said it’s less painful then lethal injections going wrong.
Well, “less painful” isn’t what the state law mandates. And even properly performed lethal injections aren’t painless. Do you know what many (if not most; can’t find #s on it) states use for lethal injections? Potassium chloride. And it’s not a painless way to go.
Remember the guy I mentioned in an earlier post, Fred A Leuchter, Jr.? He for a time designed, built and sold execution machines of varying types. One of those types was a lethal injection machine.
So even when done properly, lethal injections cause pain, and Ohio state law specifically forbids an execution method which is not “quick and painless”. Not “mostly painless” or “somewhat painless” or “less painful than a lot of other ways”, but “painless”, no qualifiers.
Frankly, the easiest way to fix this problem is to remove that language from Ohio state law. But who wants to stand before the citizenry and advocate a painful execution method? I certainly wouldn’t vote for anyone who wanted that, and I suspect most people would feel the same.
Actually, I don’t think that a bullet directly to the head would cause any physiological pain at all, not even a short surge of it. A high-powered bullet travels faster than a nerve impulse, meaning that the brain would be destroyed before the pain signals from the breached skin or whatever could reach it. The reason we don’t use a bullet to the brain is not that it’s inhumane, but that it’s messy. And the fact that we choose execution methods by how messy they are, in preference to how humane they are, should give us all pause.
Not really, I think. Most members of the Silent Majority/the Middle Class/Hillary Clinton Democrats probably don’t care if a some guy who raped, tortured, and murdered a young girl is shot or lethally injected or quartered or whatever.
First, do you have a cite to back up that opinion with anything? I doubt it.
Second, I do have a cite to back up my opinion; it’s called the 8th Amendment to the U.S Constitution, and has not been changed or repealed in over 225 years.
Painful does not equal cruel and unusual punishment.
monoxide, dioxide, one of those silly oxides.
yeah it would be the one that makes you sleepy and then dead.
They will both kill you due to lack of oxygen.
Nighty night, sleepy sleepy… dead. The diference here is the prisoner goes out peacefully versus all the fun ways everybody else experiences.