The news certainly portrays a different picture.

 

I should probably clarify my position though. I'm not for purposely making those being executed being put through a long and suffering death, but I honestly have a very tough time having any sympathy for those that do experience that when being executed.

 

Do you think your feelings would be different if you were witnessing the execution of someone that had brutally tormented or killed one of your very dear loved ones?

 

And what if this happens (and I'm not saying that's the case here) in one of the 1 of 100 instances where an innocent person is executed? Still no sympathy?

 

Bottomline, IMO, is there is way too high of an error rate to think capital punishment is acceptable, especially when this kind of thing is starting to happen more and more frequently.

And what if this happens (and I'm not saying that's the case here) in one of the 1 of 100 instances where an innocent person is executed? Still no sympathy?

 

Bottomline, IMO, is there is way too high of an error rate to think capital punishment is acceptable, especially when this kind of thing is starting to happen more and more frequently.

 

Question of guilt is not an issue here, he was guilty. Killed his girlfriend and her father. Still don't like how this went down.

Question of guilt is not an issue here, he was guilty. Killed his girlfriend and her father. Still don't like how this went down.

 

I know, that's why I said it wasn't the case here. Still can't have it happening though.

And what if this happens (and I'm not saying that's the case here) in one of the 1 of 100 instances where an innocent person is executed? Still no sympathy?

 

Bottomline, IMO, is there is way too high of an error rate to think capital punishment is acceptable, especially when this kind of thing is starting to happen more and more frequently.

 

Well certainly at the time of the execution there would be no sympathy. Now after an execution more evidence comes out to prove the executed's innocence then of course there would be more than just sympathy being felt.

I keep wondering when the looney Tea Partiers are going to come out against the death penalty. After all, it's costing the government more money than life imprisonment.

 

Fun fact, a California study found that simply incarcerating an inmate on death row for 1 year costs, on average, $90,000 more than incarcerating an inmate in general population.

 

The same study also found that with 11 executions spread over 27 years in California, taxpayers have paid over $250 million for each execution.

I keep wondering when the looney Tea Partiers are going to come out against the death penalty. After all, it's costing the government more money than life imprisonment.

 

Fun fact, a California study found that simply incarcerating an inmate on death row for 1 year costs, on average, $90,000 more than incarcerating an inmate in general population.

 

The same study also found that with 11 executions spread over 27 years in California, taxpayers have paid over $250 million for each execution.

 

That is one of the arguments against the death penalty. Additionally being cruel like in this as case and foremost because we can't correct any mistakes once executed.

"Wood, 55, was sentenced to death for killing Debra Dietz and Eugene Dietz in 1989 at the family's automotive shop in Tucson.

 

Wood and Debra Dietz had a tumultuous relationship in which he periodically assaulted her. Dietz tried to end their relationship and got an order of protection against Wood.

 

Wood went to the auto body shop and shot Eugene Dietz in the chest. He then hunted down Debra Dietz and shot her twice".

 

 

I'd say he was lucky to get an extra 25 years getting 3 square meals, cable TV, etc........If there is ZERO doubt he did the crime, we need to go back how it was done 50-60 years ago and carry out the sentence in "short order".

Does anyone know for sure why they can't get the drugs any longer?

 

What I've heard is that because of potential liability the drug companies will no longer sell the drugs needed to states so states have been forced to get their durgs from compounding pharmacies.

 

You want it quick, bring back firing squads. 6 members, 3 aim for the heart 3 take a head shot.

 

It's not even just the potential liability, although that's part of it. A couple of the companies that manufacture these drugs are based in Europe and find the United States' death penalty barbaric and so have refused to sell those products to governments in the U.S.

Even for those who are in favor of the death penalty... while executing those who have been convicted of heinous crimes might be a moral imperative, surely we can't have our governments being in the business of torturing people, which seems to have been what happened here, right?

surely we can't have our governments being in the business of torturing people, which seems to have been what happened here, right?

 

If it saves American lives I am for torture.

Even for those who are in favor of the death penalty... while executing those who have been convicted of heinous crimes might be a moral imperative, surely we can't have our governments being in the business of torturing people, which seems to have been what happened here, right?

 

They need to do whatever they can to make sure this doesn't happen again. Agree. However, I feel nothing for this cat.

There are quicker methods.

 

There are quicker methods.

 

 

Yeah, not really. Part of the reason the guillotine fell out of favor is because it was taking three and four drops of the blade to finish the job. High-grade gory.

At least in Kentucky, there are 3 drugs that are used sequentially in lethal injection situations for executions. Since it concerns drugs, we talked a little bit about it during a lecture while I was attending pharmacy school about 2 years ago. Some of the doses they are using to achieve the effects desired in the prisoner aren't being dosed correctly as often enough the prisons deliver them into the prisoner at rather set dose each time. What works for one guy may not work as well as for another. Many of the drugs they use need weight-based dosing to work properly so this might be a part of what happened here.

If it saves American lives I am for torture.

 

I was, perhaps, too general...

 

We maybe shouldn't have state governments forcing their own citizens to endure hours of physical torment before finally killing them, eh? I think that's where we are.