2006-07-30 07:34:04 · 15 answers · asked by grumpy old git 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Human rights and health and safety gone mad
2006-07-30 07:37:12 · answer #1 · answered by m0rrell 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
rjohnson442000 is absolutely right - they use single-use disposable catheters which come packaged and sterilised. This is cheaper than operating a steriliser on site.
There is a slightly more sinister reason, though. A repreive can be - and has been - granted after the catheter has been inserted. Since the death penalty in the United States is used to kill black people who have (or haven't) killed white people, it is always possible they'll call the whole thing off at the very last minute and the victim will be proven to be innocent. In this case, imagine the lawsuit if (s)he died later from an infection from a dirty needle?
2006-07-30 14:51:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's because law states that people - even on death row - have to be treated humanely and a jab with an infected needle isn't exactly humane.
Also, bacteria can still breed in a dead body for a considerable length of time. You wouldn't want to go the a funeral to find that a healthy person suddenly looked like they actually died of the plague or something - unless of course you were trying to use it as a method of denial or something!
2006-07-30 15:36:06 · answer #3 · answered by 2160 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because some officous lawyer decided that the family of the 'convicted' might sue because a dirty needle would endanger their life before the lethal drugs were administered.
Same reason they gueards are not allowed to beat the 'c r a p' out of him before the execution....
2006-07-30 14:39:46 · answer #4 · answered by creviazuk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sterilized needles help prevent anything from interferring in the person's death.
2006-07-30 14:39:01 · answer #5 · answered by da_lizard_of_ozz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To prove the point that Americans understand irony.
2006-07-30 14:37:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it could transmit a disease to the criminal, who, in turn, could spread it to the official who is in charge of killing him. Then, it could to spread to other people, and cause a plague!!!
2006-07-30 14:44:39 · answer #7 · answered by Skidude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So the person doing it doesn't get infected...just incase they drop it or something along those lines
2006-07-30 14:37:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea, for you, this is the first Really Interesting I have seen today!
2006-07-30 14:38:47 · answer #9 · answered by Pobept 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They still have to be official and keep the medical stuff clean.
People are stupid.
2006-07-30 14:37:36 · answer #10 · answered by shmux 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋