The other day I blogged on the botched execution of Clayton Lockett... Here:
Needless to say, I’m against Capital Punishment. The deliberate killing of a healthy human being by the State is simply, IMHO (in my honest opinion) legal murder. If it made the citizenry safer that would be a reason to question it necessary or not but it DOES NOT and may even have an opposite affect by displaying outright, “it’s OK to murder kiddies but only in this case”. There are many reasons to find lawful extermination of humans appalling but the main reason (for me anyway) is, what if the condemned was innocent, you just can’t undo that type of punitive action, now can you (unless you happen to be a man named Jesus). I’ve even heard that many states (if not all who think Capital Punishment is A-OK) will not allow anyone to research whether an already executed person was falsely accused and was innocent of the crime he/she had been found guilty by a jury of their (fallible) peers. I include fallible because, good grief, look around at the many ‘Low Information’ types who live amongst us who, with a drop of a hat, will believe all kinds of nutty and RIDICULOUS conspiracy theories. Furthermore, let’s sprinkle a little religion here, since those who rejoice the Death Penalty will quote biblical passages to convince them and us, that we must kill those we judge evil because the bible tells us so.
Exodus 21:12 - “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.” Does that sound a bit oxymoronish? YA BETCHA! thinkingblue
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Point-Counterpoint: Death penalty is inherently inhumane
BY MARY SANCHEZMay 3, 2014
As fervently as some may support the death penalty by lethal injection, when the process becomes the least bit messy, most of us would prefer to hide.
Oklahoma began lethal injection in America. And the state has brought the nation the latest sickening example of the method's problems. On the evening of April 29, Oklahoma death row inmate Clayton Lockett's execution went wrong. It was unclear when the sedative rendered him unconscious. He writhed and clenched his teeth, appearing to struggle against his bonds as prison officials injected his vein with the drugs.
Prison officials reacted quickly as Lockett's execution turned from an antiseptic medical procedure into a debacle. They hastily pulled the execution chamber's curtain shut, lest the witnesses present be forced to watch the condemned actually fight to hang on to life.
That's not how we like this show to go. In America, we like the capital punishment to be more like a monitored death in hospice care, a permanent sedative ushering a long, good night.
That dishonesty is the basis for how we've reached a legal and moral conundrum. Increasingly, states are taking steps to keep the drugs they are using a secret, along with the identities of the scantly regulated compounding pharmacies where they buy the drugs and even how the payments are being made. This makes it impossible to determine whether or not the new, ever evolving lethal drug cocktails administered meet the constitutional standard of sparing the condemned from "cruel or unusual" punishment.
The American way of execution is in legal crisis -- that much is obvious regardless of whether one is for or against the death penalty. States can't defend the use of drugs they won't name, nor can citizens demand that justice be done to those on death row.
Naturally, there is a sadist's view of what happened to Lockett. The chorus began shortly after Lockett he was declared dead of a heart attack, 43 minutes after his ordeal began. "It's an execution, not a tea party," remarked one online commentator.
Read more here: http://www.adn.com/...
MORE HERE: No Humane Way
Quote of the Day:
“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
Honoré de Balzac
I'm not religious but Sister Helen Prejean is a wonderful (objective thinking) human being.