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2010-05-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

Lethal Injection Doctors to be Banned from Hospitals

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Posted by Bobby 2010-05-02 07:07|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 "hang by the neck until dead" still works

Posted by john frum 2010-05-02 07:47|| 2010-05-02 07:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Put 'em in a concrete pit strapped atop a decent sized artillery shell - no doctor required if you can't find a corpse.

Posted by Bulldog 2010-05-02 08:00|| 2010-05-02 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Dr. George Tiller to the white emergency phone, Dr. George Til...... oh, sorry nevermind.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-02 08:44|| 2010-05-02 08:44|| Front Page Top

#4 I think this is a good idea. While doctors can determine that an executed prisoner is dead, for the sake of the death certificate, actually having them kill, including euthanasia, is a damn foolish idea.

The entire reason lethal injection is used is not because it is a better form of execution, but because it is more aesthetically pleasing for the witnesses. But there should be no pretense that execution is easy.

Perhaps the best form of execution is electrocution, because it fries the brain faster than it can feel pain. Other than mechanical error, the only time it might have ever failed was with cannibal Albert Fish, because he had spent a lifetime inserting and leaving needles inside his body.

In the absence of electrocution, a noose or firing squad is still quite acceptable. The gas chamber can be problematic, however, because if the prisoner just breathes normally instead of holds their breath, it can take a long, painful time for them to suffocate.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-05-02 08:50|| 2010-05-02 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, yes, of course. Pull their cert if they do the people and state's bidding. However, if they make an 'ooops' in normal practice that results in death of their patients, the same board will hem and haw and wash their hands of issues of malpractice resulting in society turning to tort lawyers to get some form of justice. /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-02 09:06|| 2010-05-02 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Naturally, family ties prevent me from maker the comments on this.

/Glares at MODS ferocously

Posted by Shipman 2010-05-02 10:05|| 2010-05-02 10:05|| Front Page Top

#7 I can feel your character gaining strength from halfway across the country, Shipman. At this rate, that six-pack is going to be a 12-pack, and you'll be beating off pretty girls with a stick. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2010-05-02 14:49|| 2010-05-02 14:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Shipman: Just think of him as being ahead of his time. An innovator. Had he been a strong Labourite, Tony Blair probably would have put him in charge of the NHS.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-05-02 18:36|| 2010-05-02 18:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Calling Doctor Kevorkian. Calling Doctor Kevorkian. Please report to the lethal injection room immediately. Your patient is waiting.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-05-02 23:52|| 2010-05-02 23:52|| Front Page Top

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