Galt's Gulch

Arizona Takes Nearly 2 Hours to Execute Inmate - NYTimes.com

Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 9 months ago to News
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Mike Broomhead talked at length about this on the radio yesterday. Personally I can't bring myself to give crap whether this pig was snoring or gasping. He was alive 25 years longer than he should have been, with three squares a day, a bed, shelter, clean clothes, full medical, and free legal services off the backs of working Arizonans. The lesson here is... a guillotine are faster and cheaper.
SOURCE URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/24/us/arizona-takes-nearly-2-hours-to-execute-inmate.html?_r=0

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  • Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 9 months ago
    Mr. Wood didn't call someone in the middle of murdering two people to see if he could get that stopped. I'm tired of people complaining about this. He deserved to die and the relatives should have a say in the manner of death. I see no reason to torture or prolong it but multiple calls during the execution is insulting to the families.
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    • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 9 months ago
      I see no reason to keep it quick OR painless for that matter...but he lived longer than his victims, and much longer than he should have. Why is he given any sympathy whatsoever??
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      • Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 9 months ago
        The purpose of the execution.

        If the purpose of the execution is, as I think it should be, to prevent him from ever even possibly committing similar crimes again, then there's no point in inflicting suffering. In fact, to do so would come under the heading of "cruel", to inflict suffering for the sake of suffering.

        It's like the big threat, so popular in cop dramas, of being raped in prison. You're never sentenced to repeatedly sodomized and humiliated, yet that seems to be found acceptable by so many.

        I'm not advocating gentle executions, I'm addressing your comment. When the execution procedure here in OK experienced a glitch, I kept wondering why they called it a "botched execution", when the subject died. A botched execution is one where the subject doesn't die.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 9 years, 9 months ago
    Apparently, in this case, factual guilt is not a question. Too often, unfortunate people are executed to meet the prosecutor's need to look successful. Is it OK to torture them to death? How do you know the difference between one defendant and the other?

    In two separate trials, she wrongfully identified an innocent man as her rapist.
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/...
    Now, they go on tour together to advocate for the rights of the accused.

    When the Obmacare Police arrest you, remember that you believe in swift and merciless justice. (Have you ever read "Failure of Vision" by Alan Ashinoff?)

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    • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 9 months ago
      No, but I've read Fallacies of Vision by the same Author. Didn't know about the other one.
      Let's not compare apples with oranges here. OR a cold blooded murderer with the likes of me. (and why will the obamacare police arrest me? Care to elaborate on that remark?) There was no question he was guilty, and he worked the system for 25 effing years. Is that justice in your eyes? Did he show his victims "mercy"? And this is only case I'm talking about, stop bringing up other, unrelated stories. Stay on topic, Mike.
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      Posted by Maphesdus 9 years, 9 months ago
      I agree. I find it highly disturbing how many people here claim to be defenders of the Constitution, and then turn around and openly endorse cruel and unusual punishment. Honesty, it makes me wonder how many of them have ever actually even READ it...
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      • Posted by Hiraghm 9 years, 9 months ago
        Again, check your premise.

        The execution was not designed to inflict suffering for the sake of suffering... so it was not cruel (and how many sentences will be overturned because the convict got himself raped in prison... through no intent of the prison system).

        it's not unusual because it is a standard procedure carried out on everybody sentenced to death. It was not thought up just to persecute this individual.

        See, we defenders of the Constitution... we actually know what it says and means...
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