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2007-05-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Lethal injection creator: Maybe it's time to change formula

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Posted by gorb 2007-05-08 05:08|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Heroin. Massive dose. Provide an alternative, legal market for the Afghan opium crop (& cut out all the AQ profiteering intermediaries.) If we make the death sentence formula appealing enough, maybe we can get the sentenced to skip the drawn-out process.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-05-08 07:57|| 2007-05-08 07:57|| Front Page Top

#2 How about a shark tank? Works every time.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-05-08 08:15|| 2007-05-08 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Use Oregon's 'assisted suicide' method. It's got to be humane, right? Otherwise, they wouldn't allow it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-05-08 08:54|| 2007-05-08 08:54|| Front Page Top

#4 There is a problem with toxic gases, as was seen in Arizona a while back. The assumption was that the condemned would hold their breath as long as they could, then inhale a big dose of the gas, and quickly pass out.

Unfortunately, the guy continued to breathe normally, which meant that before the gas could kill him, he violently and painfully choked to death, turning color, screaming and vomiting.

It is much better to use the electric chair, as electricity travels through the body faster than any pain signal, and fries the brain so it *can't* feel pain.

The only time there was any problem with that was the execution of Albert Fish, an incredible deviant who inserted needles under his skin and left them there, for many years. It is speculated that the metal actually short circuited the chair, so it took two jolts to fry him.

There is a good Wiki on Fish, but it misses lots of the gamier details of his life & crimes featured in Playboy Press's Bloodletters & Badmen.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-08 10:16|| 2007-05-08 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 News accounts of the execution also quoted Clark as asking, "Can you just give me something by mouth to end this?"

a snub-nose. faster, cheaper

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-08 10:32|| 2007-05-08 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 "The simplest thing I know of is the guillotine. And I'm not at all opposed to bringing it back. The person's head is cut off and that's the end of it."

A shock prod to the head should do the trick. For muslim condemned the throat slitting and slow bleeding approach cannot possibly be considered cruel and unusual given it is halal and traditional and such like.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-05-08 12:06|| 2007-05-08 12:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually it is not clear that the guillotine is painless to the victims. They do die, but it is possible that the head can continue to feel something for an unknown time after being separated from the body.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-05-08 14:03|| 2007-05-08 14:03|| Front Page Top

#8 it is possible that the head can continue to feel something for an unknown time after being separated from the body

Is that period of time longer or shorter than the period of time the victim suffered?

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-05-08 14:34|| 2007-05-08 14:34|| Front Page Top

#9 "it is possible that the head can continue to feel something for an unknown time after being separated from the body

Is that period of time longer or shorter than the period of time the victim suffered?"

who cares if the perp feels anything?

cruel and unusual would be playing an endless loop of "Its a Small World" in his cell the entire time he was incarcerated. Bet that would cut down on appeals also.

Posted by USN. Ret. 2007-05-08 14:47|| 2007-05-08 14:47|| Front Page Top

#10 It's my understanding that the "suffocating" feeling comes from excess CO2, not lack of O2. This means N2 would avoid that, and people who think criminals who inflict all kinds of anguish won't actually feel much, which would mean that people who ~~are clueless~~ worry about these kinds of things would have nothing to whine about.

I have personally experienced this before with Helium. I'll let you folks guess what I was up to! :-) The only thing you experience is tunnel vision for a few seconds then nothing.

Posted by gorb 2007-05-08 14:57|| 2007-05-08 14:57|| Front Page Top

#11 it is possible that the head can continue to feel something for an unknown time after being separated from the body

ok.. how about a handful of sleeping pills before they are carried to the chopping block?

Posted by John Frum 2007-05-08 16:51|| 2007-05-08 16:51|| Front Page Top

#12 #11: "how about a handful of sleeping pills before they are carried to the chopping block?"

Howzabout we just don't give a flying f*ck what these bastards feel?

Just like they did with their victims.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-05-08 17:15|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-05-08 17:15|| Front Page Top

#13 What's wrong with carbon monoxide? People go to sleep and "wake up dead" from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning all the time.

Have the perp plant and tend a garden a few weeks beforehand as "carbon credits" for the engine fuel burned up. That'll keep the libs so happy they'll forget to protest the death penalty in the first place.

Posted by Dar">Dar 2007-05-08 18:31|| 2007-05-08 18:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Well, my thought is to have the soon to be departed dig a hole. Then, while he's in said hole, fill it.

Or, sell raffle tickets. Ima thinks people would pay good money for a chance to pound a few rounds into a child rapist.

Posted by Mike N 2007-05-08 21:08|| 2007-05-08 21:08|| Front Page Top

#15 "I don't mind being dead.
It's just being dead so long that bothers me."

---Lightnin' Hopkins, blues singer

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-05-08 21:35|| 2007-05-08 21:35|| Front Page Top

#16 didn't know you was a Lightnin' fan, AP - I have a mess of his songs on my ipod

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-08 21:43|| 2007-05-08 21:43|| Front Page Top

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