RE: Pharma company protests use of epilepsy med for executions.
August 19, 2011 at 2:12 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2011 at 2:15 am by Anymouse.)
(August 19, 2011 at 1:53 am)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: Never did understand how pain before death enters into it: You'll be dead soon anyway. Seriously: why make such a big deal on making death less painful?
Aside from the constitutional requirement that punishment not be cruel?
I know: lets not use phenobarbital: sentenced to execution, die by being run over with a Ford Explorer. Let's see how long it takes before Ford regains the name of death-mobile (first earned with the Pinto), and how quickly Ford moves to quit selling their Explorers to states that use them to run over prisoners.
Or, put prisoners to be executed in the back of a Pinto and ram it in the rear with a Ford Explorer.
And really. Running over their head with a 7000 pound SUV ought to be much quicker and painless than the drug cocktail they use now. And the vehicle could be endlessly reused for this purpose. After a while the blood splatters all over it would look good on televised executions. After all, if executions are meant to be a "deterrent" then the states that voters approve of such ought to be forced to watch the executions so they can see their deterrents at work.
"Now watch, little Johnny and Suzie, here comes the big truck to run over the bad man's head. Honey will you go buy the kids some cotton candy?"
"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
