Death Row murderer suffered 'hours of pain' in 'longest execution in US history'

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    [–]IMissPorn 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

    There is a third drug (actually first in sequence), a sedative/anesthetic, but because of the paralytic it's really hard to confirm whether this is actually working properly. Honestly this method seems way too complicated. I don't agree with the death penalty anyway, but why not just use fentanyl or something?

    [–]EternalSunset 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Big pharma doesn't want their prized cash cows being associated with death.

    [–]IMissPorn 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    It's not like fentanyl is associated with death currently or anything...

    But if not that, then nitrogen. It's painless and basically foolproof. No oxygen, you die. But because you're not breathing "stale air" (CO2) you barely notice it's happening. I believe at least one state allows this as a backup method, but I don't know why they don't go ahead and make it the first choice.

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      [–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      They could even drug them like daily or randomly over years

      That might be kind of cruel, they'd always be wondering if today was their day, but I've also wondered why they don't just use fent.

      [–]Alan_Crowe 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Alcohol (ethanol) would do. It would need a intravenous infusion bag full of the stuff, a syringe full wouldn't do it. But it would work, and every execution would send a useful public health message to young men about binge drinking and alcohol poisoning.

      [–]EternalSunset 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      It's somewhat like a medieval torture-execution, but with an appearance of civilization put on by the cleanness of it.

      [–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I heard firing squad is much more preferable.

      I would far prefer that to electric chair or lethal injection

      [–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

      There is s certain type of general anaesthetic which is very painful.

      I had it for the last procedure I went through. They warned me it would hurt and I didn't take it seriously because I've never had problems before. It felt like my veins were aching and on fire but at that point I was too far gone to say or do anything about it.

      I think this is what people who wake up from lethal injection gone wrong are complaining about. It's not that bad, you have to remember crims love playing the victim.

      [–]shilldetector 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      This country is so utterly fucked up. It continually creates hell under the guise of being more humane. From the Iraq war to the "racial reckoning", we continually create real problems under the guise of solving non existent ones. This is what happens when non stop phoney bullshit advertising reaches people 24/7 their entire lives. We turn into a country that cant tell reality from bullshit, and no longer even try, and with a disingenuous hostile malevolent elite running things theres no telling how far down the depths of hell this country is going to go.

      [–]HeyBobby 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I'm okay with the death penalty, but lethal injection is ridiculous. Painful, unnecessarily expensive, and practically unregulated. There a case where a prison in Oklahoma was purchasing their chemicals from a laundromat in the UK.

      It would be much more humane to use a firing squad, guillotine, or even strangle them like in the Roman times.