By: timsteil
even where the accused doesn't passively accept the natural order of justice, it upsets things. Ironically, while reading the link on Tookie Williams, the last page was interrupted in the middle by...
View ArticleBy: MuffinMan
The reason why it has to be clean, quick and clinical is to give it the sterile and unemotional air of an operation. In effect, this is what some people in society view it as - the removal of a tumor....
View ArticleBy: cjorgensen
Because we want to be humane, but we want it to be punishment as well. Can't have that guy going to his death happy and frothing at the mouth in pain too!
View ArticleBy: Civil_Disobedient
Is there any reason they have to use this particular drug? Couldn't they just give you a ludicrous amount of heroin followed with a cyanide chaser?
View ArticleBy: randomination
I know Horn Lane very well. My first summer job was there. I worked shifts in the high street betting shop a little further north, on the left. (If you've never come across one, these places are where...
View ArticleBy: Philosopher's Beard
How can this be a serious story? The only important thing it shows is that the US death penalty system, with its bizarre concern to make execution more civilised by bureaucratising and medicalising it,...
View ArticleBy: empath
Scott Kernan who emailed "You guys in AZ are life savers," after AZ gave them enough of the poison to carry out the execution. Holy shit, he really did.
View ArticleBy: Sticherbeast
That House of Lords transcript is awesome. Why can't everyone talk like this: I cannot help but ask one question, as a result of my O-level chemistry that I never got. Like the Minister and the...
View ArticleBy: ob
It's a really bizarre story. I'm glad though that the British Government has banned the export of this, although I'm sure they've done so because they're worried about the legal ramifications of this...
View ArticleBy: Static Vagabond
The Colbert Report did an amusing skit on the shortage a few weeks ago. The choice quote from the whole situation was from the Californian Department of Corrections undersecretary, Scott Kernan who...
View ArticleFor in that sleep of death what dreams may come
176 Horn Lane, Acton, London, probably isn't an address you think of when it comes to death sentences in Arizona and California. It is the home of a small driving school. And Dream Pharma, a mom and...
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