- Jul 10, 2003
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I've no idea what this is, but judging from your other posts i'm guessing it's relevant and morally sound
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[News] Death Row - Which would you choose?
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I've no idea what this is, but judging from your other posts i'm guessing it's relevant and morally sound
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What’s your opinion on Martine McCutcheon?I've no idea what this is, but judging from your other posts i'm guessing it's relevant and morally sound
- Jul 10, 2003
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LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Hmm…I had expected a couple of posters to suggest being played Freed from Desire 
Or the A Team
This one has always puzzled me - and I realise the problems with the drugs are generally raised by those opposed to, and dedicated to hindering the execution process, which is understandable - but why cannot they use a simple anaesthetic such as is used every day in hospitals, and once it has taken effect, use anything lethal? - it does not need to come under health and safety regulations - it doesn't have to be safe - it is there to kill! By definition it should be unhealthy and unsafe, surely?
US Seagull
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Because no pharmaceutical company wants to be known as "the company that kills people". They won't sell to the prisons.
Similarly, no doctor wants anything to do with it.
And "simple anesthetic" isn't really a thing. There's a reason with anaesthesiologists are among the highest paid medical personnel.
portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
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Hmmm, for a country that voted in Trump and excuses daily gun massacres I don't think this would have your desired impact. Instead I’m confident tens of millions would find it essential viewing, probably host friends and family Wings Nights and also let the kids stay up late to watch
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
I’d go for the electric chair I’ve already survived a massive electric shock when apparently the doc told me I shouldn’t be here.
I’d give beating the chair ago
I’d give beating the chair ago
Firing squad seems to be the most instant and painless. So I’d go for that. It’s got a historic appeal too. If “appeal” is the right word.
The lethal injection is about as far from “slipping into a peaceful sleep” as it’s possible to get, from what I’ve read.
The lethal injection is about as far from “slipping into a peaceful sleep” as it’s possible to get, from what I’ve read.
Anaesthesiologists may be the highest paid medical personnel - but that is because the main part of their remit is to keep the patient alive, sometimes at levels of very deep unconsciousness, with heart rates and blood pressure sometimes needed to be lowered to potentially dangerous levels. That doesn't apply to lethal injections!
And that sort of anaesthetising - as in rendering someone unconscious - really is simple; nitrous oxide will do it, massive injection of morphine, whatever - yes, it will harm the 'patient', but that is the idea!
Baldseagull
Well-known member
If I could choose the lethal injection drug, I would take a lethal dose of smack.
Well, if the pharmaceutical companies won't provide drugs for executions, I suppose the other prisoners could have a collection...........
For those too young to remember, Gilmore was given his choice of execution and chose the firing squad.
It wasn't so much that he was given the choice - he insisted upon it. He was on death-row, but no executions had been carried out for years. He insisted that if he been sentenced to death, the sentence should be carried out. He demanded a firing squad, and after quite a battle with the authorities he finally got one.
maffew
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Make it potg
The correct answer is probably this guy shouldn't be on death row at all, maybe not even in prison, unarmed and a gun man entering his place of work (if I read that right). Only in America