IMHO the entire injection procedure is to keep it “clean” and socially accepted.
Very few people would be happy to see somebody being shot in the head, but seeing somebody “falling asleep” is much more “ok”. It looks less violent even though the end result is the same. Surviving a lethal injection and waking up again in that nightmare must be horrible.
The reality is that death penalty is cruel and more costly than keeping someone in prison for life, and this doesn’t even consider the human cost of executing an innocent. It just doesn’t make sense.
Dying slowly from an injection (or not at all) is more cruel that a bullet to the brain. You are right that these injections are done because observers don’t have the stomach for an bullet to the head. But if you don’t have the stomach to carry out the sentence, then you shouldn’t be meting out that sentence.
How don’t they have a backup method? There must be someone around with a gun? Double tap just in case, even if the chemical method seems to work.
If you must execute people, at least have the decency to do it properly.
IMHO the entire injection procedure is to keep it “clean” and socially accepted. Very few people would be happy to see somebody being shot in the head, but seeing somebody “falling asleep” is much more “ok”. It looks less violent even though the end result is the same. Surviving a lethal injection and waking up again in that nightmare must be horrible.
The reality is that death penalty is cruel and more costly than keeping someone in prison for life, and this doesn’t even consider the human cost of executing an innocent. It just doesn’t make sense.
Agreed.
Dying slowly from an injection (or not at all) is more cruel that a bullet to the brain. You are right that these injections are done because observers don’t have the stomach for an bullet to the head. But if you don’t have the stomach to carry out the sentence, then you shouldn’t be meting out that sentence.