Cyanide Pills

[BrokenQuill92]

So in states where the death penalty is death penalty is legal some are running out of the usual lethal injection stuff. But why simply give people cyanide pills or over dose them on the gas used for anesthesia? Not that I approve of the death penalty. However if you're gonna kill criminals wouldn't one of these be pretty simple instead of just trying to replace the chemical in whatever's in the lethal injection fluid.

[vorlon13]

Don't know how seriously the proposal was intended, but some in Nebraska are floating the idea of using confiscated heroin to OD the condemned.

I could imagine a percentage dropping their appeals to get that.

[SteelCurtain]

Cyanide suffocates. It stops oxygen consumption by body tissues. It is hot and bitter when swallowed, produces nausea and a splitting headache. The throat tightens, and the victim gasps for breath, reels, stares wildly without seeing, is seized by convulsions, and falls unconscious. Then, like an expiring balloon, his laboring lungs and heart slowly collapse....

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/ar...z2rF7OKDua

Not humane in the least.

[Angrboda]

Until 2009, most states used a 3-drug combination for lethal injections: an anesthetic (usually sodium thiopental, until pentobarbital was introduced at the end of 2010), pancuronium bromide (a paralytic agent, also called Pavulon), and potassium chloride (stops the heart and causes death).

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-lethal-injection

Sodium thiopental, also known as Sodium Pentothal (a trademark of Abbott Laboratories, not to be confused with pentobarbital), thiopental, thiopentone, or Trapanal (also a trademark), is a rapid-onset short-acting barbiturate general anesthetic that is an analogue of thiobarbital. Sodium thiopental is a core medicine in the World Health Organization's "Essential Drugs List", which is a list of minimum medical needs for a basic healthcare system. It was previously the first of three drugs administered during most lethal injections in the United States, but the U.S. manufacturer Hospira stopped manufacturing the drug and the EU banned the export of the drug for this purpose.

Pentobarbital has been used or considered as a substitute for other drugs traditionally used in the United States for execution when they are in short supply. Such use however is illegal under Danish law, and when this was discovered, after public outcry in Danish media, Lundbeck, the owner of the drug, stopped selling it to US States that practice death penalty. US distributors of the drug are forbidden by the owner to sell it to any customers, such as several state authorities, that practice or participate in executions of humans.

Two states have used midazolam as the first drug in a three-drug protocol: Florida and Oklahoma. Oklahoma's use of midazolam was botched, and the inmate, Clayton Lockett, died after the procedure was halted. Two states have used midazolam in a two-drug protocol: Ohio and Arizona. Both of their executions in 2014 were prolonged, accompanied by the inmate's gasping.

[ignoramus]

Does anybody find any irony in making sure the convicts are perfectly healthy prior to taking their life?
Did their victims die a painless death? If he killed your sister, you'd want be the one plunging the knife in!

Let's face it. We're apes. We're vengeful!

[BrokenQuill92]

True but unfortunately we're not allowed to do that anymore

[Athene]

Personally, I am opposed to the death penalty.  If i were on death row though, I would choose the firing squad if it were up to me.  Seems quick enough.

[Lemonvariable72]

Personally, I am opposed to the death penalty.  If i were on death row though, I would choose the firing squad if it were up to me.  Seems quick enough.

Provided they dont miss a bullet to the head is more effective then lethal injection. However the guillotine is the most effective.

[Athene]

Personally, I am opposed to the death penalty.  If i were on death row though, I would choose the firing squad if it were up to me.  Seems quick enough.

Provided they dont miss a bullet to the head is more effective then lethal injection. However the guillotine is the most effective.

And fancy!

[ignoramus]

Personally, I am opposed to the death penalty.  If i were on death row though, I would choose the firing squad if it were up to me.  Seems quick enough.

Provided they dont miss a bullet to the head is more effective then lethal injection. However the guillotine is the most effective.

Agree! With eddie pulling the chain to the background chants of "for whom the bells toll"