Comments on: Justices Halt Florida Execution Amid Questions About Lethal Injection Drug

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:59:12 +0000

Those who oppose killing killers will do anything possible to stop the practice.

That said, a 95% Nitrogen, 5% Carbon Dioxide mixture is painless, cheap and fatal.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:27:19 +0000

Maybe we should all go back to the “death by firing squad”. I believe one state has already passed that.

By: john

john — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:28:27 +0000

Doesn’t really matter, the real cruel and unusual punishment will start after death for a murderer.

By: john

john — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:24:13 +0000

Drug company’s got their hands in everything.

By: Big red

Big red — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 01:21:03 +0000

How about stoping this and changing cocktails when one of these condemned prisoners sit up and tell the execution it hurts and its not working. Smh. What about the victims of these crimes and the last minute of their lives. I guess that’s not cruel or unusual. Better yet just drop these thugs off in a orange jumpsuit in Syria.

By: Bob's Brother

Bob's Brother — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:14:07 +0000

Poor baby… I’ll bet the loony lawyers knew this would be a legal quagmire when the idea of lethal injection began. It works for them b/c there have been so many botched ones and ones in which the condemed seemed to endure pain.
Let’s get away from this silly execution style and bring back a real deterant, the gallows.

By: ECEMS RET

ECEMS RET — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:48:01 +0000

I am a firm believer in the death penalty and think if it was carried out in a more timely manner and in a public forum that we may just see a little less crime. The way it is now we convict them, sentence them and then take care of them (in better facilities than we place a lot of our elderly and infirm) for 20 years before we even think about carrying out the sentence! By then many of the people involved have died and there are no headlines or interest in the monsters, or their death. They showed no mercy, but we have to……

By: fred

fred — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:21:54 +0000

In my opinion, we (and by this, I mean the courts) have strayed far from the intent of the framers of the Constitution, when they wrote the 8th Amendment protecting against cruel and unusual punishment. Let’s think back to those days, and the punishments they contemplated – flogging, mutilation, removal of hands, eye gouging, etc. We don’t use methods anywhere close to the kinds of punishments they were concerned about. There may be some transient discomfort in lethal injection, but is it cruel? I don’t think we should measure our punishments against the methods of murder employed by the criminals, mainly because we aren’t them. But, to halt the process because the condemned might twitch a little goes too far. We are seeing the height of judicial legislation, where courts set aside the laws and rules of society in favor of the personal sensitivities of the presiding judge.

By: Dennis HE Wiggins

Dennis HE Wiggins — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:56:04 +0000

Firing Squad. Noose. Guillotine. There are so many more efficient and “less painful” ways to carry out the sentence. Heck, why not let the criminals choose which one of the aforementioned methods they would prefer? At least then they would have some say in the matter . . . unlike their victims.

By: c.w.

c.w. — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:49:16 +0000

Who cares if it hurts. They did the murders, now pay the price. Let the relatives decide how the cowards die.