I am referring to the lethal injection last week where the guy took 40 minutes to die. I mean how the hell can you get a lethal injection wrong.
2006-12-28 02:54:55 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Since it happens so rarely, I don't think they are doing it on purpose. It's not pleasant to watch anyone die, so why would they intentionally prolong it?
2006-12-28 02:57:56 · answer #1 · answered by Rachel M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Generally, the guards have nothing to do with the actual execution. Sometimes it can take longer for people to die. The first lethal injection back in the mid 90's in Indiana (before that it was electrocution) it took the guy over an hour to die. They could find a vein or a line was clogged or something. I was about 12 then so I forget exactly why it took so long, but I remember being up and seeing the broadcast on TV when he did die. It started at 12 and was annouced after 1. It took Timothy McVeigh a while too. He was at the federal prison here in Indiana. It's just like other medications, the same dose can react to people differently.
2006-12-28 03:08:34 · answer #2 · answered by Phoenixsong 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I work in corrections and I seriously don't think the executioner would ever purposely do it wrong. I may be wrong but I believe in a lethal injection it is a doctor that performs those procedures. It is not just some prison guard ethier, the person in my state is a veteran of the correctional system a very upstanding man.
2006-12-28 02:59:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Prison guards are not the ones that inject the prisoner. It has to be a certified doctor (actually 2 or 3 doctors) that carry out the lethal injection.
I would really doubt they do it on purpose. A lot of times, failed injections happen because the guy/gal was a druggie and inject so much that their veins become useless...so it is tough to find a working vein that will carry the chemicals to the heart and put the guy away.
2006-12-28 02:59:08 · answer #4 · answered by ohaqqi 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
If you had been paying attention to the story you would understand why it took so long.... The man had liver disease and the drugs used during lethal injections are metabolized in the liver. Because of his disease his liver took longer to metabolize the drugs and it took longer for him to die. And it was 34 minutes for the entire process not 40 minutes for him to die.
I find it ironic that some in society are SO concerned with this basically painless and easy death sentence, but not about the crimes that these convicted murderers commit. What about the innocent people these murders slaughtered with no regard to their constitutional rights? Where were the victims' rights to a painless death? If you don't believe in lethal injection don't commit capital murder!
2006-12-28 03:24:54 · answer #5 · answered by me:0) 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Me:O has the best answer. Lethal injection is to quick and with no pain.
2006-12-28 04:34:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, guards don't administer lethal injection. So, to answer the first part of your question, no.
2006-12-28 02:59:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I doubt they deliberately wanted the execution to go wrong as they probably wanted it finished and over quickly. A bigger question is the moral justification for Capital Punishment. I believe it is wrong as no one has the right to take another life.
2006-12-28 05:46:39 · answer #8 · answered by James Mack 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes refer to the film The Green Mile where the guards don't wet the sponge during an electrocution, fact or fiction?
2006-12-28 02:59:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Obviously the mixture wasn't right. How long did it take this prisoners victim to die?
2006-12-28 02:58:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋