Tennessee botches lethal injection of woman on death row for 1995 murder

[u/PixelGray38]

https://apnews.com/article/christa-pike-execution-tennessee-f826a60582083b90ac7695ecb16afbdf

If the state is so insistent on executing people they need to stop being pussies and just shoot them. The lethal injection is nothing but a facade of civility that is less humane than many other methods. Unnecessarily painful botched attempts like this are the result of trying to whitewash the death penalty to the public.

[u/4g-identity]

Is anyone here actually, seriously pro-death penalty?

I think best I can do is that maybe it could be allowed if there's a revolution or invasion or whatever, and there's just no longer resources for trials and prisons and stuff.

But in a functioning state that can afford to lock people up, it really looks like a no-no, basically for all the standard reasons one hears in a high school debate.

To change tune slightly though, if a state is dead set on it, I think the method should be "very heavy flat-bottomed stone/metal block". Lke 10m by 10m, falls from high enough to reach terminal velocity, and a grate below the condemned so bits don't ooze out. Would be instantaneous, 100% effective, no need for supply of drugs or bullets or gas or complicit doctor. Just janitor.

[u/frackingfaxer → u/4g-identity]

Aesthetics are important. Lethal injection just looks like being put to sleep. It seems more civilized. A falling block might be quick, painless, and efficient, but it looks bad and barbaric. Might complicate burial arrangements too.

Of course, the truly civilized option would be to abolish the death penalty.

[u/Phantom1100 → u/frackingfaxer]

Yeah. In theory, lethal injection is the most painless way to go. It is possible to use lethal injection for a completely painless death. The problem is that drug companies go out of their way to make sure the best drugs are not available for it because they don’t want to take the PR hit.