Condemned man dies during execution, updated.
A news item today reports on a condemned man who had a heart attack when the "lethal" injection failed to work properly,To my way of thinking this leaves us with several questions -
Should we be executing people in the first place?
Can we not in 2014 come up with a lethal injection that both works & is humane?
When can we expect to see the bastard that raped & murdered an 11 month old girl who was due to be executed two hours later put to death?
UPDATE.
Further details of the days events are now available on the BBC news site for those that haven't already seen them.
Comments (183)
The question, truly, is do they, since you said, remorseless..deserve to be truly treated as such? But treating them so inhumane, would make our society safer? And justified?
A very moving and emotional blog Z
Away to sharpen my axe
To be Cliché "a faith worse than death"
Our biggest problem is that our jails are over-full. Convicts serve a small fraction of their time and are released (not even on good behavior) to make place for new - mostly previously released - convicts.
Habitual criminals share time in jails because there is not enough space for all. It is nothing funny for a convicted murderer to walk out a free man after 3 or four years.
In many points I don't agree with the rules having been set by the EU, but for finding a good legal system they are playing a pioneering role.
It is not an easy process, but my experience with exposure to so many kinds of people, I find out that there are always those that will never be pleased and difficult as those that are so easy to deal with and just positive.
Never believed in the death penalty...too many innocents in prison...on death row...when we are free of prejudice...and incarcerate people who are guilty and not given a sentence due to their colour/ethnicity...perhaps...but until society sees beyond colour...not a good idea...
Redemption on the other hand are for those who truly would say: "Yes I am a bad seed, not worthy to live this life and therefore deserve to die." But given that kind of declassification or characterization before hand, can't they just go and commit themselves before hurting others?
Does the knowledge come before the act?
Regardless, being humane which is the focus of this blog is taken into consideration...
Hi Luke..
If we can truly prove that any commissions of these crimes premeditated or not are but a result of abnormality in the genes, can't we at least agree, that indeed, there is a cure or remedy?
I still believe that governments do not have the right to commit murder...they make it so clinical these days...like going to the dentist...some forget it is killing someone...jail for life...segregated...seems a better alternative...
Now given these figures, would you still favor the cost of keeping them for lifetime? And there are criminals sentenced up to 400 years. (Frozen Ground)
I think I would try to solve the problem why so many are incarcerated in the first place...try to ammend the problem...if less people were in jail and more got the help needed in the first place...perhaps the monies involved at housing murderers wouldn't matter so much...my problem is that in Canada there are more native americans in jail than people of european descent...in US there are more african americans in jail...this is a sample of the injustice out there still...
But in the process I have, after, the most painful sorrow I have encountered for the torture of my innocent brother.
Now that said, I do favor the use of such a measure as a deterrent to such escalation of crimes. Cat proved the cause and effect factor in your country.
Now @ Lou, I have changed my mind since weighing all the factors that there is a justified reason for people to take life in a humane way which is far better than the way the criminals have so callously and inhumanely have don.
And I will, come one of these days, Luke as was in my bucket list to come and live there, perhaps in Kenya..
But in anyways, only when you have become the victim, like my brother that we do go deeper on the relief of such a pain, to not let these people go back again and again and victimize others.
it has been proven that those released went back and committed crime after crime again..
I will if only to come and breath how it is to be there. I was going to donate my time for the Red Cross and or UN for some programs relative to POVERTY AND HUNGER. But let me know Luke, dare to invite me and I will.
And I lived in Switzerland Luke, long time ago..