Nope, too Catholic. Most of the Fundies are agin’ Graven Images–they might have cross-shaped decorations in their houses of worship, but no crucifixes…
If only Brad Drake had been given that Ballerina Barbie on his 9th birthday…
I believe that anyone given a death penalty should die in the same way they killed their victims. I’d love to see OJ sliced up like a side of beef.
I was thinking more of using chemical or electronic means of execution that would reduce the murderer to a vegetative state so most of the organs can be harvested without elaborate life support.
Er, no thanks, JoelUpchurch…
Eh, this is probably close to true. Death comes very, very quickly when your heart and lungs are pulped by gunfire. With lethal injection, there’s the risk that you could be inadequately anesthetized at the time the paralytic and heart-stopping agents are administered; as a result, you die unable to scream, but in considerable agony. Given the choice, I’d prefer the firing squad.
This isn’t meant as a defense of the death penalty, which I find monstrous - nor of this idiotic state senator. But if one absolutely, positively has to kill people, it’s probably better to do so via firing squad than with lethal injection as currently formulated.
Why even execute them, though? Give them general anesthesia and take what you need. If the surgery is fatal, so be it. If not, keep the patient (that’s what they call condemned prisoners they’re executing) alive until we need that lung.
I guess if you can organize it, you could have the person needing the lungs, the person needing the heart, the person needing eyes, and two people needing kidneys all ‘at the ready,’ but finding a day when they’re all free might be hard.
Do you actually believe this? :dubious:
I subscribe to the principle that one should keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out of my head.
If you want painless I’d suggest a one ton stone block on rails dropped from 50 feet onto the head. It would smush your brain flat faster than anything other than a very powerful explosion.
Also, it destroys the face, so there is a cathartic erasing of the victim’s identity.
Conversely, you could just stop executing people because it’s fucking primitive.
There’s that pesky 8th amendment, though.
The slippery slope here is that there are never enough donor organs, and it’ll only get worse as medical science continues to improve. So society starts making more and more crimes punishable by donation, to fill the demand. Soon, jaywalking costs you a kidney, and a DUI gets you parted-out completely. Read Larry Niven.
These ideas aren’t cruel and unusual; they’re enhanced execution techniques.
Larry Niven is one of my favorite authors and if you read some of his non-fiction articles, even he doesn’t buy this slippery slope argument. You need to learn the difference between arguments authors use to advance the narrative and arguments they actually believe.
I’m soundly pro-death penalty, but I wouldn’t support death by organ donation. I realize the intention is noble, but it feels too much like, well, butchery. Carving a living person up until he’s dead? Yergh. Besides, I don’t know that there are many doctors who’d participate, what with that oath and all.
As an alternative to lethal injection, I propose nitrogen asphyxiation. Purportedly painless and stress-free. I realize that goes against the wishes of the legislator in the OP, but them’s the breaks.
I suspect that the most humane execution method ever devised was the Guillotine. The only improvement I can imagine would be something that just instantly vaporized your head.
I am frankly not convinced the locking someone in a cage for the rest of their life is actually more humane than executing them.
Good luck finding a surgeon to perform the harvesting.
I think I read one Sandman…but I can’t quite conceive how that fantasy could come up more than once.
And if it was elephant orgasming I think it would be death by drowning…
Seriously?
I think I can make time in my busy schedule for a heart transplant, if I’m someone who ends up on the “kinda needs a heart transplant” list.
-Joe
Maybe it wouldn’t have to be a doctor. Just someone from one of those emergicare places.
I’m assuming that we would specially training technicians for these procedures. Almost all medical training would be irrelevant to the disassembly procedure and as you point out the oath would be an issue.
You would rather see innocent people die of heart, lung, pancreas and kidney failure because of your squeamishness? You of course have the right to refuse a transplant. I suspect that someone whose mother dies because of your sentimentality will be less understanding.