Executions on hold

[JimC]

They should adopt beheadings. Film it and put it on the internet.

Compulsive viewing for old ladies in knitting clubs...

[JimC]

A good dose of sedative, then a humane killer applied to the back of the skull, straight into the brain stem.

Pithed.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Many of the drugs used to execute people are manufactured in EU countries, which refuse to supply the drugs for this purpose.

Also, there is growing pressure within the EU (mainly from Germany, I think) to refuse to buy drugs from US firms involved in producing the chemicals for lethal injections.

Soon they won't have anywhere to buy their toxic cocktails and they'll just have to sic Zimmerman on the felons!

[JimC]

If they advertised for people to be on a firing squad, they'd be swamped!

And they'd bring their own guns and ammunition, a real saving for cash-strapped states!

[Jason]

A good dose of sedative, then a humane killer applied to the back of the skull, straight into the brain stem.

Pithed.

I'll remember that when it comes time to cull the retirees. Vote yes on proposition 404: No country for soylent green.

[JimC]

A good dose of sedative, then a humane killer applied to the back of the skull, straight into the brain stem.

Pithed.

I'll remember that when it comes time to cull the retirees. Vote yes on proposition 404: No country for soylent green.

I come pre-marinated with juniper. Adds a certain piquancy to the soylent...

[Blind groper]

Trouble is, Jim, you cannot be cooked. Something to do with the source of that juniper. Apply heat and you would explode. You are just too damn inflammable.

[FBM]

Hyperbaric chambers make my blood boil.

Hypobaric chambers would do that, I think. IIRC, instantaneous decompression is considered to be a humane means of execution by whoever decides these things.

[pErvinalia]

They should put them all on a rocket and send them to a high security prison on the moon, overseen by only 2 or 3 guards. Nothing will go wrong, and they won't get control of the spaceships and comeback and terrorise the Earth. That never happens.

[mistermack]

My favourite idea for the death penalty is to allow it, but if it turns out that the person was innocent,
all of the jury members who voted for the death penalty have to be executed too. And the judge.

It's only fair. They would then take the importance of the life of the accused as seriously as their own.

If they voted for the death penalty, knowing that, they would obviously have no problem with it being carried out.

[Tyrannical]

I'd prefer public hangings.

[pErvinalia]

With hoods and burning crosses?

[Strontium Dog]

A piece of good news for those, like me, who think that executing criminals is barbaric.

Apparently the USA executions political machine is having problems accessing the lethal drugs they inject into their victims. Some of the traditional suppliers of sodium pentathol and pentobarbital are now refusing to supply the American penal authorities, because they do not want to be a part of that barbaric practice.

Cheers to those who have a conscience!

This was a decision by the UK's coalition government, the sodium thiopental used in executions was sourced from British companies, so we banned its export.

[klr]

The programmer in me would like to point out that the law forbids "cruel and unusual". It does not forbid something that is either cruel or unusual, as long as it's not both.

[JimC]

Let's see, an unusual execution that's not cruel...

I have it!

Death by Snu-Snu!