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LuvNewcastle

(16,844 posts)

18. I saw it.

Reply to Puregonzo1188 (Reply #16)

Mon Dec 26, 2011, 06:41 PM

Dec 2011

They said that in order to administer lethal injection, they had to have a drug that would put the person to sleep. Morphine would do that. The person could be given a dose strong enough to put him to sleep and then it could be gradually increased until the heart stops. My grandfather died that way and if I could choose how I die, death by morphine would be my choice. I'm not in favor of the death penalty, but if it's going to be used they should choose the least painful way to do it. They would have to use something else on those allergic to morphine, of course.

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Europe is cutting off drugs US needs for letal injection to get US to stop the practice [View all] Maraya1969 Dec 2011 OP

Of course, all that means is 3waygeek Dec 2011 #1

I don't understand how this would hinder executions here. LuvNewcastle Dec 2011 #2

A stand on principle may be the only way to state your opposition to some activities lunatica Dec 2011 #5

Watch the video. Other drug combinations have been considered unconstitutional. Puregonzo1188 Dec 2011 #16

I saw it. LuvNewcastle Dec 2011 #18

well, we could bring back old fashioned hangings... CTyankee Dec 2011 #3

And we are barbarians as far as the death penalty goes lunatica Dec 2011 #4

K&R MichaelMcGuire Dec 2011 #6

If not by injection, execute them in the same way they killed their victims.... IamK Dec 2011 #7

That is the kind of heinous attitude toward killing people that makes the rest Maraya1969 Dec 2011 #10

Personally I agree with him, IF we could be sure they were murderers. moriah Dec 2011 #14

You can keep them off the street by putting them in jail. Maraya1969 Dec 2011 #19

Escapees. Which is more cruel, instant death or solitary confinement/supermax? moriah Dec 2011 #20

Take a poll of the ones on death row about that. The very few Maraya1969 Dec 2011 #22

Why do we kill people who kill people liberalhistorian Dec 2011 #17

Why do we feel the need to kill so many people RC Dec 2011 #8

Nice try, but... pipi_k Dec 2011 #9

The rationale MichaelMcGuire Dec 2011 #11

Yes, but if they can't change the system, the next best thing is NYC Liberal Dec 2011 #12

It also highlights MichaelMcGuire Dec 2011 #13

Good. Capital punishment is such a sickening and barbaric violation of human rights, and with the US Puregonzo1188 Dec 2011 #15

I can see the death penalty in only a very, very, very few cases. roamer65 Dec 2011 #21

The only place where the death penalty should be available hifiguy Dec 2011 #23