How To Kill Someone Humanely
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Botched executions in California and Florida that required more than 30 minutes to kill condemned prisoners prompted a moratorium of the lethal injection procedure in both states on Friday.
Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel found California's method of execution unconstitutional, concluding its "implementation of lethal injection is broken, but it can be fixed."
The decision follows the state's 2005 execution in which guards failed to connect a back-up intravenous line to Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the former Crips gang leader who garnered global publicity after writing anti-gang books.
Then on Wednesday Florida executioners botched the insertion of needles into condemned killer Angel Diaz, which meant lethal chemicals did not go directly into his veins, according to the state's medical examiner.
The title of this post is 'How To Kill Someone Humanely', but Blog MyyyyyAsssss wonders if this is really necessary. Society, yours and mine, whether it be in Vancouver, British Columbia or Naples, Italy dictates certain things, one of which is that we respect others in society. When you don't do that then you have to suffer the consequences.
Back in the good old days the townfolk would take the bad guy out to the middle of a large desert and set him loose forbiddding him the privledge of returning home. The vultures and creepy crawlers of the desert cleaned up after society's garbage.
Later in history it became popular to build wooden structures in the town square and hang the garbage for all to see and this practice went on for hundreds of years. After a specific amount of time had passed, employees of the town would cut down the garbage from the scaffold and then dig a hole to bury it. Time consuming - yes, but cost effective and the townfolk who generally assembled for this event were educated to respect the laws of society and also entertained. Afterall, back then they didn't have high definition television, or CNN, and Hockey Night In Canada was years away.
Society later evolved to respect the privacy of one's last day on earth and they moved executions
indoors with just a few witnesses who could later write autobiographies or do interviews on Oprah about how they were there when so and so met his maker.
As time went by these large wooden structures were found to be taking up too much room and the electric chair evolved followed by lethal injection. You have to admit that modern inventions sure has made our life a hell of a lot more complicated than back when townfolk had to take their garbage out into the middle of the desert.
So What Do We Do?
In today's world we do not have the luxury of deserts to dispose of our garbage.
In America, guys like Jack Nicklaus are building golf courses and natives keep building casinos that are taking up a lot of room and nobody on vacation or just out for a good time wants to see a bunch of vultures nibbling away at their prey. Besides, there is a lot of pressure from certain quarters of society that maintain we should be
recycling our garbage so just burying it to them no longer makes sense.
I'm not sure where we go from here, but a fellow by the name of
Neal Asher has some interesting ideas.
