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Some ignorant and uninformed questions (I am not a medical doctor) about the methods of execution used to implement the death penalty, prompted by yet another controversial case, this time in Alabama. Alabama used nitrogen hypoxia, which was described as being slowly suffocated, and which one witness to the execution said was the most violent of the 5 he had witnessed, the executee violenting convulsing for many minutes.
Why is this so difficult? Why not carbon monoxide exposure/poisoning which is billed as causing drowsiness and a maybe a headache, then falling asleep and never waking up? I suppose it's not always that simple?
Why not propofol injection (which seems to be the anesthesia of choice for colonoscopies and other medical procedures not requiring deeper anesthesia), followed by carbon monoxide or dioxide poisoning? Can it still result in a visibly uncomfortable death? (Of course, what the person experiencing it is actually feeling would remain a mystery even absent visible signs of distress.)
And if not propofol, why not the medical anesthesia methods used to induce the very deep unconsciousness necessary for major surgery? Followed by some method of depriving the brain of oxygen by introduction of increasing concentration of N₂/CO/CO₂ gas?
Finally, a 20mm cannon round to the head would clearly result in instantaneous death, and since the brain would be literally disintegrated, there could be no pain or even discomfort. But this method, though inarguably "comfortable" for the one being executed, might be pretty hard on the witnesses.😉
Are there really no good options here?
No. of Recommendations: 4
Are there really no good options here? - g0177325
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Seems like all the excess fentanyl out there would do the trick too.
I have often thought like you, with all the excellent anesthesia drugs out these, how can this possibly be a problem for state executioners. I have heard they have to keep secret the sources for the drugs because the anti death penalty crown will attempt to intimidate or cancel the supply.
Lastly, the condemned should have a choice on their method of execution, choose between what standard method the state has or choose the method you used on your victim that earned you the death penalty.
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<Are there really no good options here?>
I'll be looking forward to hearing the answers from the "pro-life" crowd.
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I'll be looking forward to hearing the answers from the "pro-life" crowd.
Yes, abolishing capital punishment nationwide via Constitutional amendment would certainly be one solution that I would be fine with!
No. of Recommendations: 4
<<bighairymike
Seems like all the excess fentanyl out there would do the trick too.>>
Other comment:
It has always intrigued me, the irony of the left, where they are so bent on allowing abortions for anyone, anytime, for any reason. Rip the defenseless "mass of cells" with whatever means are available. Done and done and good riddance.
But then, when you have another "mass of cells", many several of years later after birth that has done something horrible, why fight so hard to prevent with dispatching THEM???
Easy solution: Just think of the act as simply a REALLY, REALLY LATE ABORTION.
Problem solved. QED.
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I'm with you; I don't get why this is hard. You could load up somebody as Mike says with enough fentanyl or another opiate where they just go to sleep happy.
