17 September 2009
Civilsed world?
I caught a radio news report yesterday afternoon which said that someone in the States had had they death sentacne delayed for a week.
The reason? To allow time for an appeal or to seek clemency?
No it was because after 6 or 7 attempts they had failed to find a vein into which they could inject the lethal poison.
So this person, who had prepared themselves for their moment of death, had their last meal, said their farewells and been strapped down was now released for another week of 'last days' and another day to go through it all again and the chance that again they will not be able to find a suitable vein and so the cycle could continue.
I don't know who they are or what they did, and I know I have never supported the detah penalty but even if their crime was appalling this is inhumane.
And we call ourselves civilsed and morally able to make the decision to take someone else's life in cold blood.......
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That is scary stuff. I understand in the bad old days when the UK executed people there was a rule that three failed attempts (in short order, not on three separate occasions) was seen as the limit of acceptable behaviour, and commuting to imprisonment occurred (evidently there was a precedent case where someone wasn't hanged because part of the gallows was 1/8th inch out of true....)
Posted by: Catriona | 17 September 2009
I'm with you there - It's nothing short of a barbaric practice as it is, and quite un-christian to exact such terminal vengeance on the perpetrator - they can say what they like about the ultimate deterrent, but it clearly doesn't stop people altogether.
I just can't accept that the USA is a civilised country while it still carries out these atrocities - and to pursue it to such a level as this, it really makes me shudder.
Posted by: Mike Smith | 17 September 2009
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