"PHOENIX (AP) — The recent revelation that condemned prisoners in Arizona can now provide the lethal drugs to be used in their executions has received attention around the world and raised questions about the state's rules for the death penalty.
The novel policy has drawn sneers from defense attorneys who were puzzled as to why the state would think that they would assist in killing their clients. It has inspired wisecracks about Arizona's penchant for taking on envelope-pushing criminal justice policies and left some readers on social media asking whether the bring-your-own-drugs policy was actually the product of a news parody website.
Criminal defense lawyers and death penalty experts say they have never heard of a state suggesting that condemned inmates can line up drugs to be used in their executions.
However unlikely it is that any of Arizona's 119 death-row inmates will take up the offer, the change is a reflection of the difficulties that Arizona, like other states, faces in finding execution drugs now that European pharmaceutical companies have blocked the use of their products for lethal injections.
Executions in Arizona have been on hold since the 2014 death of convicted killer Joseph Rudolph Wood, who was given 15 doses of the sedative midazolam and a painkiller and who took nearly two hours to die. The state will not be able to carry out executions until the resolution of a lawsuit that alleges Arizona has abused its discretion in the methods and amounts of drugs used in past execution"
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I don't see it posted anywhere.
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I don't see it posted anywhere.
Perhaps you miss my drift.
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Not a painfully way to go in the least. I wouldn't think it falls under Cruel and unusual treatment.
Not a painfully way to go in the least. I wouldn't think it falls under Cruel and unusual treatment.
That's one of the worst imaginable ways to die.
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to use drugs? Why not just lower them in a tank of water.
Not a painfully way to go in the least. I wouldn't think it falls under Cruel and unusual treatment.
That's one of the worst imaginable ways to die.
Dismemberment? Gas Chamber? Wouldn't it be a lot like the Gas Chamber?
Other than a natural death of old age I think drowning would be the least painful way to go.
So you want to go all Game of Thrones? That't more civil than a Water tank?
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are cheap and painless.
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cringe at decapitation, but done in a swift and surgical manner, it is considered relatively painless. Consciousness is believed to continue after the spinal chord is severed, but a study in rats in 1991 found that it takes 2.7 seconds for the brain to consume the oxygen from the blood in the head; the equivalent figure for humans has been calculated at 7 seconds.
So you want to go all Game of Thrones? That't more civil than a Water tank?
Ha! Another brilliant and astute BBI observation. No dumb ass, did I ever intone that in my comments? I don't think so. I was simply stating biological information. "If" I were to condone capital punishment, I'd recommend we stick with lethal injection.