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[–] 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Update: Tennessee fucks up another "lethal" injection. https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-set-to-carry-out-rare-execution-of-a-woman/

The filing said the execution began around 8 p.m., that two syringes of pentobarbital were administered, and that Pike maintained a heartbeat and was heard audibly snoring.

Media witnesses report being unable to view what was taking place. They were able to hear groans, moans and snoring for more than 40 minutes before they were escorted out.

I don't know if they got bad drugs, or if it was some other form of incompetence, but this is not okay. Time to abandon lethal injection altogether if we can't do it better than this. Firing squad like she proposed is probably one of the better methods if Tennessee wants to remain in the capital punishment business. Yes, you'd have to clean up blood, but that's often what happens when you kill people. Let's stop euphemistically pretending we're "putting her to sleep."

For the next one, that is. I think surviving a botched execution attempt should get her sentence commuted.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The kind of training you need to be able to kill someone painlessly with drugs is the same training you get for working in medicine, so the sort of people who actually have that training also tend to self-select to not be willing to participate in executions. Which leaves only people who don't know how to painlessly kill people with drugs running the show.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    It's never been an issue with medical skill. Drug manufacturers refuse to sell drugs for the purposes of killing someone because it bad PR, so instead they support torturous barely-lethal injections to make sure people suffer as much as possible before maybe dying.

    Our legal system also enjoys torturing people, so nothing is being done to fix the torture injections. We also don't have a single payer healthcare system, so drug manufacturers can do whatever the fuck they want to maximize profits and minimize healthcare.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    It's both - lack of people with the training to set it up correctly and lack of the optimal chemicals to execute quickly and painlessly. Essentially the entire medical industry, including companies that could make some profit from selling the drugs, are against it.

    You know it's fucked up when companies will pass on a sale because even they won't stomach it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    For my last meal, I would like to eat a bulletproof vest.

    How I eat my last meal is not your business, my parents never told me not to wear my food.

    Judge, please commute my sentence, they clearly botched the execution by aiming at my last meal.

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