2006-07-20 06:33:00 · 13 answers · asked by Demeter 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
There is an unwritten law that if the condemned prisoner lives through execution they get pardoned. The reason why the sterilize the needle is in the rare case that it does happen and he/she gets an infection from it they can sue the state. Sounds odd but true.
2006-07-20 06:38:14 · answer #1 · answered by The Bat 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
While there is some chance of a last minute stay, it pretty much never comes that late in the process. In actual practice, it is a means of maintaining a level professionalism. If you go back to gallows or firing squads, there were certain procedures. In actuality, the whole thing could be done quite quickly. But for the people doing it, even though they are carrying out justice, they are participating in killing another human. These procedures maintain a level of professionalism that helps keep their focus on carrying out justice, rather than the idea of killing. So, just as a firing squad would march in formation, ready-aim-fire and all that, the medical professionals setting up the lethal injection follow their rituals to maintain their professionalism.
2006-07-20 07:13:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They don't. The needle comes in a sterilized package, but that doesn't mean there aren't some crazy ramifications from using a medical procedure to kill someone. If it's performed by an M.D., and isn't successful (for example, the needle didn't cleanly enter the vein and the poison diffuses in the tissue of the arm), the M.D. would be obligated to render aid. Can't we just bring back the guillotine? It worked really well and really fast.
2006-07-20 07:14:20 · answer #3 · answered by Pepper 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Legal health practices and procedures. Like one answerer suggested sometimes as stay comes in at the last second. Imagine the ramifications if a person contracted a deadly disease/virus via the unsterile instruments. We had an inmate once to die from another cause right after a minor surgery. It was months of investigations and all before the prison and the staff were cleared of any wrong doing.
2006-07-20 06:48:29 · answer #4 · answered by midnightdealer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I read an article on injections that they give for the death penalty recently and they do use sterilized needles and a combination of three different drugs.
2006-07-20 15:40:56 · answer #5 · answered by bottleblondemama 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there's a chance that the prisoner will receive a stay of execution ten seconds before the execution was to be carried out (it's happened many times).
2006-07-20 06:37:16 · answer #6 · answered by Patrick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps so that people don't get infections such as A NEW STRAIN OF REALLY QUICKLY DEVELOPING AIDS and die of them before the poison takes effect.
2006-07-20 06:37:25 · answer #7 · answered by Sparky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can't have our convicted murderers and rapists contracting some nasty disease two seconds before they are killed, now can we? That would be inhumane!! LOL
2006-07-20 06:38:41 · answer #8 · answered by emgee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man, I should be asking the same question!
2006-07-20 06:36:08 · answer #9 · answered by I sk8 4donutz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
finally a good question on here. probably because its procedure
2006-07-20 06:36:56 · answer #10 · answered by da big red juggalo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋