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The inmate still died. It's almost double-talk to call it "botched" when you accidentally kill someone a different way than you were intending to kill them.
by powera 12y ago
The inmate still died. It's almost double-talk to call it "botched" when you accidentally kill someone a different way than you were intending to kill them.
- danhak 12y agoverb informal 1. carry out (a task) badly or carelessly.
- freehunter 12y agoWhat seems odd to me is that, of all the ways humans know how to kill each other, the government is having a hard time trying to find a reliable way to do so now that they can't get the same drug they used to. There's no reason to have a "botched" execution when killing someone doesn't really take that much effort in the first place. And then calling off the execution after the drugs have been administered? Yeah, something is terribly wrong.
- jack-r-abbit 12y agoThe issue is not that they don't know of any ways to kill a person. The issue is they are required to do it without pain and suffering. And we don't know if this went wrong because of the drugs or because they were administered incorrectly. It is possible that even if the old drug was used here that the same problem could have happened. It might just be a stupid coincidence that the IV was placed improperly during the same execution they used these new drugs for the first time.