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LETHAL INJECTION

JUSTICES TO EXAMINE LETHAL INJECTION

The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take a hard look at the method of lethal injection most states, including Utah, use to put inmates to death in a case that could further slow the pace of executions.
Ref. https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,...13327,00.html

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I think that whichever method is used is going to have a proportion that don't happen as quickly as they should, but compared to the other methods of ending prisoners lives, I was under the impression that lethal injection is still the most humane form.

Also I feel that these inmates who reach this point have committed such heinous atrocities that haven't taken into account how much pain or suffering they inflicted on their victims or their families, that it does seem more than unfair that so much thought has been given to the pain that these evil monsters face upon death-- maybe it's just me, but there does seem to be more than some injustice under the circumstances?

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Supreme Court to Review Legality of Lethal Injection

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the use of lethal injections to execute death row prisoners is constitutional or if it violates the Eight Amendment¹s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments. A report released by Amnesty International today catalogues the instances of painful and inhumane executions using lethal injections. It calls on health professionals to refuse to participate in executions. We speak with Brian Evans of Amnesty¹s Program to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/04/1355219

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Lethal Injections Here To Stay

The Supreme Court has upheld Kentucky's use of lethal injections for executions. The justices, in a fractured decision, rejected a constitutional challenge to the procedures in place in Kentucky, which uses three drugs to sedate, paralyze and kill inmates.
Ref. USAToday

Injection Lethal

While leathal injection is all good and clean with no real pain going to the inmate I guess we call that being humane to the prisoner. Well I think it stinks. I would much rather see the prisoner twist and jerk at the end of a rope or see the lights dim as he/she is given to the electric chair. Many of these hardened crimianls torured and killed thier victims. Why should we kill them in a less humane way. Make them suffer like their victims. Public hangings might send a message out to would be killers - We are not going to stand for it.

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I have to say that there are some pretty totalitarian and extreme views displayed in this topic thread.

One one hand you appear to be suggesting that murdering and torturing people is worng... and then on the other hand are seen to be suggesting that the best way to punish people who do just that is by murdering and torturing them! How hypocritical! Taking human life should be the absolute last resort. Sometimes in war there is no other option; a split second choice between taking a life or loosing many lives. However locking people away in grimey prisons is sufficient as a means of punishment. There is simply no means for the justice system to lower its self to the levels of the criminals it is trying to bring justice to by treating them in such an inhumane way.

Lets at least be reasonable about this.

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I am one who feels that a person who commits murder on another human is no longer human and thus needs not be treated humanely. Send a message to all would be murderers that YES we are going to kill you and it will not be pleasant. We need to take a hard stand to eliminate murders from our society.

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In a case that could have broad implications for hundreds of death row inmates, the Supreme Court will consider whether a drug protocol used in recent lethal injections violates the Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The justices agreed Friday to consider a case originally brought by four death-row inmates in Oklahoma - one of whom was put to death last week, after the court refused to block his execution with a combination of three drugs that has caused some prisoners to writhe in pain. Ref. USAToday