Not to be insensitive or crass....but what's so hard about this?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/04/23/lethal.injection.ap/index.html
You would think that humans are as impervious to death as roaches.
We have trouble electrocuting them, injecting them with poison, hanging, and the firing squad.
Why not just strap them down, and drop a two ton lead weight from a height of 50 feet? Gruesome, but quick.
Or car exhaust?
These people are murderers. Last I heard, they don't give their victims a say in matters.
2007-04-23 17:14:27 · 5 answers · asked by powhound 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Unfortunately the judicial systems is set up the protect the wrongdoers more than the innocent :( Appeal after appeal after appeal....our tax dollars hard at work!
2007-04-23 17:19:17 · answer #1 · answered by Zizi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have something called the Eighth Amendment, forbidding "Cruel and Unusual" punishment. The sentence may well be death, but we should do it with a minimum of suffering. So, we knock people out, then poison them.
To deliberately inflict pain on them, as part of the sentence, would be "cruel" So we don't do that.
2007-04-24 00:19:55 · answer #2 · answered by John T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Takes an average of 7 years.
2007-04-24 00:21:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always heard that purpose of a firing squad was so that no one actually knew who did the actual killing so must not be that easy
2007-04-24 00:26:48 · answer #4 · answered by goodins2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not know about all states, but Texas has no problem with it, they use lethal injections.
2007-04-24 00:20:47 · answer #5 · answered by zack 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋