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Arkansas has a drug problem
April 18, 2017 at 3:19 pm
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Quote:An Arkansas death row inmate who had been scheduled for execution Monday was temporarily spared after decisions from the US Supreme Court and Arkansas Supreme Court.
On Monday evening, Don Davis had been given what was to be his last meal at the Cummins Unit, the Arkansas prison that houses the state's execution chamber. As midnight approached, his fate remained unclear pending further court action.
Davis had been one of eight Arkansas inmates scheduled to die this month.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/17/us/arkansas-executions/
As a quick summary of the background..Arkansas can;t (for a host of reasons) get the drugs it needs to kill people. They were forced to try their own homebrew. One ingredient of which is a mystery to the state and the manufacturers..since no one in either camp seems to know where the state sourced the component or whom they sourced it from. The other has a shelf life. The executions were scheduled so as to get some killin in before the homebrew went bad, and particularly now that the suppliers of the chemicals they were using found out what they were using them for, and decided not to sell them any more.
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RE: Arkansas has a drug problem
April 18, 2017 at 3:23 pm
Hrm... what if they just stopped killing people?
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RE: Arkansas has a drug problem
April 18, 2017 at 3:24 pm
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They went the other way with that one. They were aiming for 8 scheduled executions in 11 days. That's brisk business. 
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RE: Arkansas has a drug problem
April 18, 2017 at 8:46 pm
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What home brew? I see midazolam (Versed), vecuronium bromide (Pavulon) and KCL.
Lethal injection should have never been made a death penalty option. Trying to placate people that think putting people to death should not hurt, a kinder gentler whacking. There are better ways that don't involve medicine that can be painless.
BTW, not a death penalty proponent, waste of money opponent.
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RE: Arkansas has a drug problem
April 18, 2017 at 8:49 pm
(April 18, 2017 at 8:46 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: What home brew? I see midazolam (Versed), vecuronium bromide (Pavulon) and KCL.
Lethal injection should have never been made a death penalty option. Trying to placate people that think putting people to death should not hurt, a kinder gentler whacking. There are better ways that don't involve medicine that can be painless.
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i agree it's the most inhumane option it has been proven already people suffer from it.
at best it's better to use cyanide if that and that is saying a lot better to me it's the death penalty doesn't seem like a deterrent
to commit crime and not to mention the wrong people on death row end up dying when they didn't commit a crime in the first place.
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RE: Arkansas has a drug problem
April 18, 2017 at 9:03 pm
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RE: Arkansas has a drug problem
April 18, 2017 at 9:32 pm
There has only been 6 US executions in 2017. I'll be happy when that number goes down to 0. Death penalty is only a small part of the problem of the US justice system though.
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RE: Arkansas has a drug problem
April 18, 2017 at 9:46 pm
If Steve Stephens was still available, he could shoot all 8 in the face . . .
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RE: Arkansas has a drug problem
April 18, 2017 at 9:55 pm
Alabama's senate just voted to allow nitrogen gas as a mode of execution. It would be the third to allow it (I had known about OK, but apparently MS allows it now, too).
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RE: Arkansas has a drug problem
April 18, 2017 at 10:05 pm
The thing about Nitrogen is that your body doesn't react with any "bad symptoms" (except for the death part, of course). You just lose consciousness with 3 breaths, and then you die. No toxic residue like that from cyanide, no nasty smells from electrocution, etc. I'm not generally an advocate for capital punishment, except in very special cases...which must be proved unequivocally.
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