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| US Supreme Court allows use of lethal injection drug |
| 2015-06-30 |
| [Iran Press TV] The US Supreme Court has ruled that the use of a controversial execution drug is constitutional when administering the death penalty. In a 5-4 decision, the highest federal court of the United States on Monday refused to limit states' use of the sedative midazolam that opponents say has the effect of being burned alive. The activist court is reportedly quite knowledgeable regarding abortifacient pharmaceutical drugs and Obamacare as well. Experts on the living and the dead, so to speak. The drug had played a part in three long and painful executions last year in Oklahoma, Ohio and Arizona. "Petitioners have failed to establish a likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that the use of midazolam violates the Eighth Amendment," the justices wrote in the majority decision, delivered by Justice Samuel Alito. The court's conservative majority said lethal injection remains the most humane method of execution. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 What's wrong with massive overdoses of heroin? Especially now, with the price so low and the supply so large. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-06-30 14:46 |
| #5 I'd use N2. I believe the body knows about excess CO2, but doesn't know about lack of O2. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-06-30 13:38 |
| #4 Facts! Logic! Wossamatter wid youse, anyways? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-06-30 13:24 |
| #3 What's wrong with massive overdoses of heroin? There should be plenty available free from various evidence lockers, and how could it be called 'cruel' when so many indulge in it on purpose? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-06-30 10:25 |
| #2 Madame Guillotine has an established record of swift and quick. No FDA requirements. Either the state takes responsibility for justice or forfeits to power back to the people. It already happens in the hood. Neither is perfect, but obstructing the state doing it as a disinterested third party only promotes vendetta. BTW, if you just want them to go to sleep, just follow the oft used warning about children and plastic bags. The bag fills with the exhaled CO2 causing the subject to fall asleep without panic or a struggle. The body then fails to attain the oxygen necessary for sustainment. No FDA approval needed either. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-06-30 08:21 |
| #1 This is good news for ISIS; they have been using beheadings, tossing from the roof, and cage drownings. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2015-06-30 06:10 |