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I did not mention anything of the sort...or for that matter anything at all - other than the execution was botched and it seems to be happening on a regular basis. Surely you sesee there is a problem with this right?>
>Yes I do. They need to find a more efficient method for executing murderers. Perhaps the guillotine?
Ever see the movie "The Green Mile"? There's an interesting scene, where the character named Percy intentionally left the sponge dry, to torture the man being executed. Here's the exchange between Tom Hanks' boss and Tom Hanks:
Hanks' boss: "What happened here?"
Hanks: "An execution. A successful execution"
Hanks' boss: "How in the name of Christ can you call that a successful execution?"
Hanks: "Edward Delacroix is dead"
It's certainly wrong to intentionally botch a procedure to prolong this process. It should be as quick as possible. But aside from that, that's what we had here in Arizona - a successful execution of a man who murdered two innocent people (and admitted it). There are multiple eyewitness reports that the man was snoring heavily, and not squirming and grunting. Anyone with sleep apnea knows that someone on their back, fast asleep, will snore the chimney off.
OK, so it took longer than it normally does. Big deal. I would argue that a process intended to make the person suffer while fully conscious is cruel and unusual. But I see nothing cruel and unusual here. Is capital punishment cruel? Of course it is. It's vicious. It's supposed to be. But "cruel AND unusual" is a completely different context.
If anyone is that concerned, fine, then get a firing squad. There's a woman in the world who, at age 18, lost her sister and father to a vicious killer. Let the lawyers cry a river of tears in front of her.
I have no problem with life imprisonment if there is the slightest doubt about a first degree murder conviction. But that's not the case here. The guy was guilty. There are also reports that he smiled arrogantly at the victim's family right before they gave him the first set of drugs. He got what he deserved.
