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Oklahoma Double Execution Botched: "We're going to close the blinds temporarily."

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-PXG-

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Babies are worse than known criminals because they have the potential to be even greater criminals. Better to get rid of them BEFORE they can commit crimes.

Plus they ruin vaginas, steal titties and shit all the time. Something must be done about these mongrels.
 
This is what the Nazis did. And we all know how humane they were... Right?

It's part of the mythos that goes hand-in-hand with capital punishment. You are going to die at 9:00 PM on XX/YY/ZZZZ, for the next XX years you will petition this ruling, but you will die on the aforementioned date. Tell me again how this is not a 'cruel and unusual punishment'. The problem that so many people seem to have is their basis of jurisprudence is based in the 18th century, but our understanding of human beings is based in the modern era.
 

benjipwns

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i dont think they had cars back then
ride_with_hitler.jpg
 

VanWinkle

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Ugh, I hate hearing this stuff. I don't sympathize with the guy at all, but this just isn't the right way to go about things, especially when something like this happens.
 

DarkFlow

Banned
...How is it cruel and unusual punishment to have a person peacefully fall asleep before dying of fumes?

So, you feel like bring back Nazi Jew extermination methods? Yeah that sounds like a great idea!

The use of gas vans had two disadvantages:

It was slow—some victims took twenty minutes to die.
It was not quiet—the drivers could hear the victims' screams, which they found distracting and disturbing.
 
Nazis also eat pancake, that doesn't make eating pancake inhumane.

You are comparing eating pancake to hooking up the exhaust pipe to what is essentially a gas chamber?

Gas Van

Personally, you can do what you like with your criminals. The suggestion of gassing prisoners with exhaust fumes just brought the Nazis to mind, that's all. Other posters can jump on me all they like for referring to them, but in this case it is very relevant.

Edit: Beaten... Multiple times.
 
One thing I think is worth pointing out. I've seen a few conservative blogs post about this. One thing that suck out to me is what they're asking.

They're asking you to remember

Just remember that while you are posturing over how Clayton Lockett died.

Its almost an implicit recognition the reaction to another human being dying, no matter how cruel that person was, its a horrible thing. You have to remember something else to over come the basic human understanding that killing is wrong
 

Kai Dracon

Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I do wonder how many people make assumptions about justice for victims without having looked into what actual families of victims often go through in capital punishment cases.

It's often quite twisted, based on what I've read. Not everyone finds closure from executions. For many it just gets worse. Some families are sickened by watching death presented as their "reward" for having a life taken from them - until you see it in person, it's kind of academic and armchair-quarterback. I believe one of the most common sentiments from family members is the depressing realization that nothing changes after a murderer dies. The dead don't come back, reality isn't turned on its head. When you have a real horse in the race - the victim is someone who mattered to you - there's more to it than a passing snarl of contempt at someone who committed a serious crime.

Not all families of murder victims are against the death penalty, but a lot are. (And I think their opinion may have more weight than the average eye-for-an-eye advocate in the peanut gallery.)
 

DarkFlow

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Hey, in this economy, you can seat four and do them all at the same time. I'm sure tax payers will love it.

Hell, we might as well go full-bore in our blood lust and just round up all of death row in one van! You could fit 100 people in that sucker, might as well use it since you know, everyone of them is scum and don't deserve anything better. /s
 
Sorry but no sympathy from me.

Water is wet. Otherwise known as the expected response from you when it comes to any thread like this; meaning shit posting with no purpose, amirite? Contribute, or don't post. Saying I don't care, or something of the sort is really fucking pointless.
 
One thing I've never understood is in cases like this, why not just walk up to him and put a gun to his head?

Seems more "humane" than otherwise, no?
 

TAJ

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Very many people get shot and survive. Some get shot like a lot of times.

I know. In one battle during WWII my grandfather got shot 13 times, including through the neck.
But if you keep at it I'm sure you can kill anyone in less time than this guy.
 

SapientWolf

Trucker Sexologist
The secrecy and the lack of oversight is frightening. What's stopping them from accidentally giving the inmates drugs that makes them linger and suffer for days? Or even worse, doing that on purpose? The state is not infallible. If a person deems that to be acceptable in their state then they are also accepting the possibility that it could happen to them, even though they did not commit any crime.
 
...*shivers*
Due to a shortages of pentobarbital and vercuronium bromide, Oklahoma planned to buy the drugs from an unnamed compounding pharmacy. This was problematic because such pharmacies are unregulated, and contaminated pentobarbital can result in excruciatingly painful deaths. (Experts say it can feel as though the insides of a person's veins are being scraped with sandpaper.) South Dakota used a compounded pentobarbital contaminated with a fungus to execute Eric Robert in 2012. During the execution, he repeatedly opened his eyes—a sign that the drug wasn't working, some experts said. Oklahoma has had similar problems. In January, it executed another man, Michael Lee Wilson, using pentobarbital from an unidentified compounding pharmacy. During the execution he sputtered, "I feel my whole body burning," another sign that the drug wasn't doing its job.

From an earlier post of mine.

This is torture.
 
Give the prisoner a pizza, couple marijuana chocolates, an Xbox One with Titanfall, inside an air-tight room. Slowly flood nitrogen gas into the room, several hours later, he's fallen asleep dead.

The only reason I've read about being against using inert gas to execute prisoners is that it's "too peaceful" or "too humane." I think it was a conservative who said that.

Still against capital punishment.

It'd be hard to botch this.
 

GaimeGuy

Volunteer Deputy Campaign Director, Obama for America '16
One thing I've never understood is in cases like this, why not just walk up to him and put a gun to his head?

Seems more "humane" than otherwise, no?

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the NRA lobbies against it. After all, an execution of a helpless, restrained person, no matter how heinous they are, is a much more grizzly scenario than a shootout between good guy and bad guy. It's bad PR, exactly why drug manufacturers do not want their products used for cap punishment.
 
awwwww poor murderer felt pain before dying.

funny how these people can do fuck all to get the death penalty but the moment they suffer a little we scream bloody murder for the insanity to stop.

Priorities.

Can someone explain to me why we worry about being humane while killing a guy like
This? Just curious
 

SapientWolf

Trucker Sexologist
awwwww poor murderer felt pain before dying.

funny how these people can do fuck all to get the death penalty but the moment they suffer a little we scream bloody murder for the insanity to stop.

Priorities.

Can someone explain to me why we worry about being humane while killing a guy like
This? Just curious
What do you think happens when people start to dehumanize other people?
 

dan2026

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The cruel lack of empathy or indeed humanity in this thread is astounding.

We don't live in the dark ages, what happened to forgiveness, compassion and mercy for your enemies?

But who cares right? Just tear 'em apart!
 
The cruel lack of empathy or indeed humanity in this thread is astounding.

We don't live in the dark ages, what happened to forgiveness, compassion and mercy for your enemies?

But who cares right? Just tear 'em apart!
I'm quite ok with bringing back drawing and quartering TBH. I mean if we're jumping on the "why feel bad about killing" train might as well go full bore. I mean we should sell tickets too since I keep hearing financial feasibility arguments as well
 
The cruel lack of empathy or indeed humanity in this thread is astounding.

We don't live in the dark ages, what happened to forgiveness, compassion and mercy for your enemies?

But who cares right? Just tear 'em apart!

I sure hope you're joking. We are millennia away from something like that.
 
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Deleted member 1235

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maaaaan I just read what this guy actually did. holy crap got chills reading it...... doesn't change my stance on the issue, but holy crap he was horror movie villain levels of evil.
 
awwwww poor murderer felt pain before dying.

funny how these people can do fuck all to get the death penalty but the moment they suffer a little we scream bloody murder for the insanity to stop.

Priorities.

Can someone explain to me why we worry about being humane while killing a guy like
This? Just curious

And on that note, I think this thread is done, rather I'm done with this thread.
 

Grug

Member
I am anti-death penalty on philosophical and evidence-based policy grounds but I have a question...

Sorry if this has already been asked, but why is the procedure for executing a human with a lethal injection different to that of a sick dog or cat being euthanised?

I've personally witnessed two of my dogs euthanised in my life, and both times it seemed a pretty peaceful, and relatively quick procedure involving one injection (with what I believe is an overdose of general anesthetic). They both appeared to just go to sleep and within a minute or two the vet checked for a heartbeat and that was it (gee it still cuts me up thinking about it though)

Why is this different "cocktail" of multiple drugs necessary (both the new and old combination) with humans? I have heard come across three different arguments, all of which seem to contradict each other.

1. It is supposed to involve the least amount of suffering (in which case, does this mean what our pets go through isn't as harmless as it could be?); or

2. It is the most effective way to guarantee death (do the drugs used on pets sometimes fail? I've never heard of this); or

3. To ensure a little bit of suffering (which disturbs me and I find hard to believe).

Any clarification would be great.
 

daniels

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I am only sad that he didnt suffer longer.
But if they want to make executions fast and "painless" why not just use something like a cattlegun its instantly since it shoots directly in the brain.
 

Kysen

Member
Seriously, what is wrong with just using a bullet to the head. Why do they have to use such complicated and expensive methods?
 

Matt

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Tell that to the 19 year old girl who this guy shotgunned and watched as his thugs buried her alive.

Political Correctness has no place in circumstances like this.

This has nothing to do with "political correctness." We are supposedly BETTER then the people we do this to, and should act accordingly.
 
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