Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions

[Deleted]

Guess in many states they can get old sparky out of storage again?

[Zoibert the Bear]

I still believe that death by sharks is the classiest method:

1. Take a bunch of prisoners on a boat.
2. Throw some blood/dead fish into the water.
3. Wait until sharks amass.
4. Have those scallywags walk the table.

If any of them survive, shoot the in the leg, so that they attract more sharks and their swimming capabilities are gimped.

[Ragelicious]

How about the US, enters the modern era of the western civilization and get rid of the death penalty? On so many topics america is the same developement scale as the frigging middle east. Gay rights, circumzition, death penalty, religion and the list goes on.

[Axelond]

Prisoners should have a fight to the death and the winner gets crowned champion and gets to live until the next fight. That would be hours of entertainment.

[announced]

It's not that quick, it can take several blows to chop the head off.

guillotine then, fast and effective. just make sure the blade is heavy and sharp as fuck so it kills in 1 shot or whatever. no need to waste money on electricity, bullets or drugs either for capital punishment.

[Berengil]

Good for Pfizer. Vengeance has no place in the law of a civilized nation. If an offender is a permanent danger ( and is not mentally incompetent, which would require psychiatric confinement), they can be kept in prison for the rest of their life. It has long been my conviction that the most severe penalty under law should be life imprisonment in solitary confinement without chance of parole.

[Rennadrel]

Because there aren't other ways to kill someone....

[Barnabas]

Sounds like it's going to fall over the moment anyone challenges it in court.

Nope that how they execute you in utah since they don't have drugs. It'll be the other choice soon across the nation.

[Independent voter]

Supreme Court recently ruled that "cruel and unusual" doesn't apply to the death penalty as much as other punishments. They ruled that no matter what, getting executed is going to suck, they said states should just do the best they can. If states can't get drugs they are free to use other means.

This is all on the anti-death penalty crowd, they put pressure on the drug companies hoping to end executions but it backfired on them.

[Noradin]

I'd prefer hanging or guillotine to firing squad, it's pretty much instant and painless when performed correctly. Severing the spinal cord is the fastest method of death.

Yes, It can also be combined with a sleeping drug.
Still, a death sentence cannot be humane, no matter how painless or "ethical" they try to make it.

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Supreme Court recently ruled that "cruel and unusual" doesn't apply to the death penalty as much as other punishments. They ruled that no matter what, getting executed is going to suck, they said states should just do the best they can. If states can't get drugs they are free to use other means.

This is all on the anti-death penalty crowd, they put pressure on the drug companies hoping to end executions but it backfired on them.

No one is forcing you to have executions.
Your attempt to put pressure on us by means of choosing the most cruel killing methods you can to give you the means to kill your own citizens won't work.
We will not negotiate with extortionists.

[Deleted]

Turns out, and this is weird, shooting people can have serious psychological effects on the people doing it.

Well, maybe they should give the job to stone cold people who does not give a damn about criminals.

Anyway good amount of C4 is the most painless thing you can die from. Or ANFO? I don't know, basically one that kills you faster than your neurons can communicate.

[Astronom]

People have funny attitudes about execution. There seems to be this obsession in those Western countries which still practices it with leaving a nice intact unmarked corpse. Like this means the victim didn't suffer. Look at hanging. You read there's two terrible ways hanging can be botched. Firstly, it doesn't break your neck so you strangle to death. Pretty terrible. Two, the drop is too long and your head gets ripped off. Actually the best possible outcome. Guaranteed instant death. But because it leaves a bloody mutilated corpse, its considered horrible and "botched".

[willtron]

Turns out, and this is weird, shooting people can have serious psychological effects on the people doing it.

Automated guns. They exist.

As for the mess. Just put some plastic sheets down, then wrap them up in it after. Done.

[Dendrek]

Bloody and violent. That's how death penalties should be carried out. What better way to satisfy society's blood lust than with literal blood?

We could hold auctions to see who gets to roll around in the dead guy's blood.

[Noradin]

Automated guns. They exist.

As for the mess. Just put some plastic sheets down, then wrap them up in it after. Done.

That just transfers the issues to the ones putting them in place before the shooting.
You will always deal out phychological issues to those involved in the execution, there is no avoiding it.

[Raiju]

Well, maybe they should give the job to stone cold people who does not give a damn about criminals.

It should be like jury service for anyone who's shown they're pro death penalty

[skitzin]

Another company will eventually fill the market.

[willtron]

That just transfers the issues to the ones putting them in place before the shooting.
You will always deal out phychological issues to those involved in the execution, there is no avoiding it.

And why is pressing a button that delivers a bullet any different to pressing a button that delivers drugs, or a massive electrical current? I'm not saying it gets rid of it, but it certainly minimizes it.

[Noradin]

And why is pressing a button that delivers a bullet any different to pressing a button that delivers drugs, or a massive electrical current? I'm not saying it gets rid of it, but it certainly minimizes it.

Not denying that.

[Deleted]

That just transfers the issues to the ones putting them in place before the shooting.
You will always deal out phychological issues to those involved in the execution, there is no avoiding it.

How is that different to putting them in place to be drugged? You're still setting up someone's death.