It’s like my brain can’t process this. It’s too horrific.

Let’s not talk about the killer’s motive here. MOTIVE DOES NOT MATTER.

I am honestly sorry you had to watch that video, Anna, because I will not be. This is just horrific.

This is so horrifying. They were doing a damn puff piece about tourism and then this happens. And for the poor in studio people to have to report on it live. Ugh.

Now it would be all twee and make you a mug with your initials on it in cursive.

Let the barbarity end. Can anyone else explain why we are so proud that kill so many people judiciously. We’re right up there with China and Russia. Fine company to be keeping.

Never forget: when the state kills, they kill on your behalf.

I don’t understand how any form of execution doesn’t fall into that category, no matter how painless they could make it.

It’s because the states that execute people are largely doing it without the support of scientists, doctors and pharmaceutical suppliers as they don’t want to legitimise executions.

Exit Bag can be repurposed as a Death Penalty Bag. But maybe it’s too humane?

I read somewhere that the most humane way of killing someone is to put them in a sealed room and gradually remove the oxygen. If you remove the carbon dioxide too, they don’t feel like they’re suffocating and there’s no distress - they just pass out and then die with no awareness of it.

Because that cocktail has only been tested on dogs and cats?

I am %100 against the death penalty but I’ve always felt that if you have to then why not just put a bullet in the brain?

I know movies aren’t reality, but I just watched The Green Mile again the other day, and how anyone can consider the electric chair to not be cruel is beyond me. That a state might go back to that from lethal injection seems crazy. To be clear, I’m against all capital punishment, but I don’t see how lethal injections…

Life in prison is cheaper. There’s extensive academic writing on the topic, but I can’t find it at the moment so here’s a NBC/AP article that lays it out pretty well.

I may be remembering this completely incorrectly, but I think that’s what they were doing? And the drug’s European-based manufacturer wasn’t keen on it being used for such and now refuses to sell it to prisons.

Someone straighten me out.

So for sake of having an argument:

I’ve heard a couple different reasons why. First is that the companies that make the drugs refuse to sell them if they’d be used on humans. The drug cocktail that was used on humans initially is also impossible to use as the manufacturers refuse to sell them at all in states that have legal execution and/or any…

Ignoring my on the whole anti-capital punishment stance, considering we put dogs, cats, horses, etc. to “sleep” using more humane standards than prisoners, how is lethal injection in anyway shape or form not breaking the 8th Amendment banning “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”?

Genuine question: Why can’t they use the same drugs we use to put dogs and cats down? Seems painless (I hope?)?