Gosh… it turns out that capital punishment by lethal injection appears to be even *more* “cruel and unusual than anyone thought. You can read the full story here.
Basically it appears that the drugs used to sedate the condemned before the lethal cocktail is injected quite often doesn’t work. In fact, the situation is so bad that the injection of potassium chloride (used to stop the heart) can be felt as it destroys the circulatory system. The researchers liken the suffering to be
“sort of be the equivalent of slowly suffocating while being burned alive,”
I appreciate there is a large vocal lobby who feel this is still too easy an exit for some… however we have also learned that yet another man wrongly convicted has been released after 24 years in prison.
You have to ask whether torturing someone to death who may in fact be innocent, is an acceptable process for justice to allow in a civilised society??
I think not!!
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