Supreme Court ruling upholds lethal injection

[Naturalized-Texan]

States vow to resume executions as quickly as possible (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5705260.html)

The U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding lethal injection sent a shudder through death row Wednesday, and prosecutors and governors around the country said they would move forward with carrying out death sentences as quickly as the courts can set execution dates.

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In Texas, easily the No. 1 death penalty state, 40 condemned convicts who had all but exhausted their appeals had been awaiting the outcome of the case, said University of Houston law professor David Dow, who represents death row inmates. Texas has 357 inmates on death row.

In Texas, judges set execution dates. By law, execution dates must be set at least a month in advance, so no execution could take place before mid-May at the earliest.

[BarkleUSA]

This ridiculous challenge had derailed the justice train in 19 states for far too long. It's not right that these slime balls on death row got all this extra time - at least now the states can continue dispensing much needed justice.

[TeenageRepublican]

What's this "lethal injection" crap? Where's the electric chair or the noose? Oh wait, the rapist is supposed to be comfortable on his death bed.

[MSGT]

Ginsburg said it is "undisputed" that the second and third drugs used by Kentucky "would cause a conscious inmate to suffer excrutiating pain." She asked Kentucky courts to consider safeguards to prevent condemned killers from suffering severe discomfort in the moments in their final moments of life. She asked the state to ensure a prisoner is unconscious when injected with the death-inducing drug.

Here, hit him in the head with this






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[DeclinetoState]

She [Justice Ginsburg] asked Kentucky courts to consider safeguards to prevent condemned killers from suffering severe discomfort in the moments in their final moments of life. Since most killers show similar consideration to their victims, I'm sure . . .

[Wolfcounsel]

A certain amount of potassium chloride injected, and all the scumbag feels is a little prick. Beddy bye time and you don't wake up without resuscitation. I know, because a few years back I was accidentally injected with enough potassium chloride to make me see cross-eyed and hit the bed and wipe out. I woke up in the intensive care unit and the doctor told me I had been under cardiac arrest for 45 minutes give or take. Fun fun fun!

[DesertFox]

Dang! They arrested your cardiac?!? That's an outrage!

[Wolfcounsel]

There was just sleep, and then instant wake up. But the whole episode happened over 48 hours. Talk about time travel!

And these pussies who cold-bloodedly murder cry like babies when they're about to enter the hurt locker.

[DeclinetoState]

Dang! They arrested your cardiac?!? That's an outrage!Was the cardiac read its Miranda rights?

[Wolfcounsel]

Either my cardiac sang like a canary or its rights were not explained. I don't recall. I remember a thread a while back where some "expert" was whning that the condemned suffers excruciating pain during a potassium chloride injection. Baloney to that story!

[DoctorDoom]

Ginsburg said it is "undisputed" that the second and third drugs used by Kentucky "would cause a conscious inmate to suffer excrutiating pain." She asked Kentucky courts to consider safeguards to prevent condemned killers from suffering severe discomfort in the moments in their final moments of life. She asked the state to ensure a prisoner is unconscious when injected with the death-inducing drug.Ginzy, buy a clue: the assholes did not fret over the comfort of their victims when they carried out the death sentence on them.

I couldn't possibly care less whether the son of a bitch will "suffer excrutiating pain." He'll be dead and won't remember it.