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I believe it is designed to cause pain and distress, because I've heard the designer of lethal injection say that's the point. Kinder methods were rejected beca
by knorby 11y ago
I believe it is designed to cause pain and distress, because I've heard the designer of lethal injection say that's the point. Kinder methods were rejected because it was meant as a replacement for means like the electric chair, the gas chamber, and firing squads. It isn't meant to torture, but you aren't meant to drift softly into the night. The doc was on BBC Horizon (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7183957.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7183957.stm). The alternative suggested there is oxygen deprivation via nitrogen.
Hopefully euthanasia patients will at least be monitored. They've struck me as more pleasant at least.
- NoPiece 11y agoYou are 100% wrong. Here is an interview with the guy you are talking about who came up with the lethal injection protocol 40 years ago. The specific intent was to be humane, and all it is an overdose of the standard anesthesia of the time. http://time.com/101143/lethal-injection-creator-jay-chapman-botched-executions/ http://time.com/101143/lethal-injection-creator-jay-chapman-...
- knorby 11y agoYou are correct. I deeply mixed up people. I was thinking of this interview with Robert Blecker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9YgWXKAwNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9YgWXKAwNY. That it is failing and states haven't adjusted to something that might cause euphoria is in my view a bias to pain.