Pharma company protests use of epilepsy med for executions.

[Violet]

Seriously: why make such a big deal on making death less painful?

We like to pretend that we are not barbarians, Sae.

Oh... carry on then I do love a good fairy tale ^_^

Reminds me of religion

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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?

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Aside from the constitutional requirement that punishment not be cruel?

The... what? How the hell could you have an uncruel punishment? That is absurd... you're going to make an absurdist of me yet.

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.

* Violet doesn't associate Ford Explorers with what people do to them.

Or, put prisoners to be executed in the back of a Pinto and ram it in the rear with a Ford Explorer.

I feel sorry for the Pinto, if I know my cars right

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.

Hell, I bet it's cheaper too. Why don't we do this, again?

"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?"

Well that's a great way to treat a wife. How about YOU go buy the cotton candy, and I watch?