Hey what a great idea for a new revenue stream! We can auction off the right to kill prisoners. I’m sure there’ll be plenty of sociopathic right wingers that would jump at the chance to execute someone. We could even televise it on PPV. Budget issues solved?
Are you including me among those “sociopathic right wingers”?
If you’re itching at the chance to sign up to execute someone, then you just may be, yes.
I’m not sure what the problem is. Obviously, it’s not terribly difficult to obtain the chemicals that will render someone unconscious for surgery safely and humanely. Once that’s accomplished, removal of all the useful organs ought to be simple enough, and would accomplish the purpose of carrying out the death penalty in a more useful and efficient manner.
Hmm. I don’t know that I’m “itching” at the chance to serve on a jury, but it’d be an honor, and I’d gladly volunteer; I suppose I’d feel the same way about serving as an executioner; I pretty much feel the same way about voting, when you get right down to it; oh, and it’s also how I felt about guard duty, back when I was in uniform.
Not to start a hijack, but holy crap, they had to make a specific rule against that?
The problem is that no medical professional would be able to administer anaesthetics in such a situation as they would lose their licence to practice. Consequently only amateurs are allowed and hence why US executions by drugs currently are actually “Amateur Hour”.
Also no surgeon would be allowed to remove organs after such a judicial killing without the consent of the patient.
The latest person to call yesterday’s abomination torture is Senator John McCain, that well known lily livered liberal.
“Senator McCain, in remarks quoted by Politico, was outspoken in his reaction. “I believe in the death penalty for certain crimes. But that is not an acceptable way of carrying it out. And people who were responsible should be held responsible,” he said. “The lethal injection needs to be an indeed lethal injection and not the bollocks-upped situation that just prevailed. That’s torture.” McCain was a victim of torture when he was captured by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam war.”
:dubious: McCain said “bollocks-upped”?
He is quoted as such. Briticisms travel well.
The original statement on Politico:
"A botched execution in Arizona on Wednesday amounted to “torture,” said the state’s senior senator John McCain.
The longtime Republican lawmaker, who experienced years of torture while being held in captivity by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War, called the drawn-out lethal injection execution of Joseph Wood on Wednesday “terrible.”
"“I believe in the death penalty for certain crimes. But that is not an acceptable way of carrying it out. And people who were responsible should be held responsible,” he said in an interview. “The lethal injection needs to be an indeed lethal injection and not the bollocks-upped situation that just prevailed. That’s torture.”
“Wood was given a toxic mix of chemicals that took nearly two hours to kill him on Wednesday, according to The Arizona Republic, whose reporter said Wood “gulped like a fish on land” for 90 minutes.”
Read more: McCain: Arizona execution 'torture' - POLITICO
When John McCain starts agreeing with you, it’s time to reexamine your beliefs.
Why does there have to be such a complex process of chemicals instead of just filling up a syringe with an overdose of anesthetic?
I don’t see the comparison to be made with an African-American woman who wouldn’t give up her seat to a white person.
I’ve seen the phrase spelled “bolloxed up,” and never connected it with the British word (spelled differently) until now. But never mind that.
A generational matter now forgotten by younger people. When I lived in California in the sixties, no one knew what Bollocks, bollix, bolluxed up etc meant. A Brit with a sense of humor had a licence plate Bollox issued by the DMV- no-one knew. Similar to the British word Wank which then was only marginally known. Such ruderies did not make it fully across the Atlantic until the Sex Pistols “Never Mind the Bollocks- here’s the Sex Pistols” album became known. Similarly Wank did not complete the journey until internet Pron.
There isn’t one. We covered this already.
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…I’ll just say this: the Rosa Parks of capital punishment won’t be a convict. It will be an executive branch official who refuses to carry out a sentence.
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I enjoyed the commentary in the dissent for the recent execution:
If we are going to kill someone - kill them. Admit it. Face it openly. If we are NOT willing, then dump the death penalty.
For the record (if anyone cares) - I am anti-DP because I don’t trust the justice system. I would have no problem pulling the trigger as a member of the firing squad IF I trusted the system.