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