Are Certain Executions Unconstitutional or Inhumane??

[jakeman]

Eye for an eye... He shoots his victim once, gun jams, leaves, comes back and shoots her again, has a friend bury her while she's still alive. Pretty humane of him.

I just watched the little channel 4 news bunny's account of the execution. Sounds like a horrible, horrible way to meet your death.

It couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.

All things happen for a reason. Maybe a greater being decided he hadn't suffered enough, and that a painless death was too good for this animal. I have no more sympathy for him than I would the writhing body of a rattlesnake that had it's head chopped off.

edit - I forgot. I'm not happy that it happened, if it would have gone off without a hitch, he would have been joined 2 hours later by the other one. That's the tragedy here. This is going to, quite possibly, be an end to capital punishment in OK. For that reason, this is a horrible thing.

 

[technetium-99m]

So is it wrong to experiment on prisoners? We could make some serious medical advances.....

It is very very difficult to get an IRB approval for medical experiments on prisoners because it's just about impossible to obtain informed consent from someone who is serving time.

Without informed consent it is considered wrong by just about the entire medical community to experiment on people.

Just an FYI here.

 

[dennishoddy]

It is very very difficult to get an IRB approval for medical experiments on prisoners because it's just about impossible to obtain informed consent from someone who is serving time.

Without informed consent it is considered wrong by just about the entire medical community to experiment on people.

Just an FYI here.

Smarty pants...

 

[TedKennedy]

It is very very difficult to get an IRB approval for medical experiments on prisoners because it's just about impossible to obtain informed consent from someone who is serving time.

Without informed consent it is considered wrong by just about the entire medical community to experiment on people.

Just an FYI here.

I wasn't suggesting getting prisoner consent. Think organ sales, tissue donation for burn victims, eyes for those in need of transplants.
Give violent offenders a way to "give back" to the community.

 

[Cohiba]

My wife and I have been trying for a few years to witness an Oklahoma execution. I don't care about seeing any real or fake executions on youtube, faces or death, or whatever or wherever.

My tax money fed, clothed, medicated, and housed Oklahoma death row inmates...now I'd like to witness the finality of my tax money hard at work. They use to hold public executions...what changed. .the executions or the citizens? DOC...just won't let it happen and trying to "obtain" a press pass...heck, it's easier to get Cuban cigars.

I have a feeling they'll resolve or "fix" the execution issue when they can figure out how to complete an all but abandoned, half built, Native American museum here in Okc...without going to the citizens and asking for MORE money.

Maybe the Gov. needs to put a "stay" on the museum and spend more money hiring people to do a study and figure out what went wrong....just like Oklahoma executions.

Nothing to see here folks, move along.

 

[turkeyrun]

hanging or firing squad.

why does the method even matter. A jury of 12 had sufficient evidence to unanimously convict on death penalty. Take em out at noon Sat. dip em in honey and stake em to an ant bed. Dead is DEAD. How much did their victims suffer? Let the family choose the punishment / method. Just 'Git er done'.

 

[turkeyrun]

I tried to call Fallin one time. Chick that answered the phone said the Governor was having some OHP for dinner and couldn't talk. Her mouth was full.

Sounds like the Gov is trying to take #1 spot for POST #12 from BB.

 

[BadgeBunny]

It's all about money and power gentlemen. That's the bottom line ... follow the money and power. These worthless pieces of trash are simply pawns in a game of chess ... whether they live in a concrete cell or die writhing on a stretcher is of no real consequence because they are simply game pieces in a chess game played by men and women way outside these guy's social group who have money to lose, and status and ego to maintain.

That said, I'm a firm believer in the truth of the statement "Some people just need killing."

 

[ignerntbend]

Good god man pull yourself together. So now everyone is a nazi that supports capital punishment? It's not like we are talking about kangaroo court here. It's a 20 year process with numerous appeals and many different reviews. Hence the cost you ***** about. The reason it is that way is to make damned sure that who we are putting down is the one that did the crime.

The rest of the civilized western world restricts firearm ownership by ordinary citizens as well. Should we adopt those policies as well?

Look up Cameron Willingham, framed by arson investigators and murdered by the state of Texas.

 

[OKSpeedDemon]

"Idaho banned execution by firing squad in a law which took effect on 1 July 2009. This left Oklahoma as the only state left in the United States that utilizes this method of execution (and only as a secondary method)."