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)
I was just thinking out loud Z, perhaps there will come a time truly when we can say: HEAVEN IS UPON US?
I hold you to it now Luke.
But whether we like it or not and just as some out there out to kill and torture us, I would definitely do it myself, like Z mentioned albeit, HUMANE AS WE CAN.
I remember when I first heard about what happen to that man, it made me sick.
In my opinion, I do not think we should be executing people in the first place. The primary reason for me saying this is because the judicial system is not perfect. There are reported many people who have been put to death, only to find out afterwards they were innocent. In those cases, there is no way of correcting the mistake made.
Secondly, I am not so sure it is the duty of a living human being to take the life of another human being. Yes, there are crazy people out there that do take others' lives and that is not right and they need to be penalized for that. I think that is why we have prisons. But to take their life as a penalty, I am not sure about that. To me, that breaches the inherent responsibility of being a living person...from a spiritual aspect.
These are just my opinions.
you put him in cell with only things that would constantly remind them of the crimes they have commented and that's all they get so for the rest of there natural born days they can only reflect on why they are where they are.
taking a person life makes us no better than the person that commented the crime lost it appear that person has been punished according to the law, what punishment has actually been dealt out? wouldn't it be better to make that person reflect only the crime they committed.
@Candykid, I don't think you will think so shortly before the execution..
Thanks and I am sorry Lou my friend, we differ on this one..
@India, there are alternatives to death penalty. Noone here said to take side of the murderers.
That's okay...we don't share the same opinion...but I know why people feel that the death penalty should be implemented...
callies , what are the other alternatives you are talking of? Life imprisonment where the culprit comes out after 20 years and attacks another child and this time it may be someone from your family
The loss of freedom is still the most effective punishment. There are prisoners who have developed to better people this way, and could start a new life then in freedom.
Life imprisonment where the culprit comes out after 20 years and attacks another child and this time it may be someone from your family
This happens daily here.
Better hurry up, seats are limited and there is a lot of applicants for the free retirement plan.