Comments on: Controversy over lethal injection escalates

By: laura Hernandez

laura Hernandez — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:19:31 +0000

oh and another thing, i know that there are cerain circumstances where many people may believe that a person should be sentenced to the death penalty. I know if my sister was abused i would want the death penalty for the abuser. But whether its constitutional or not, if a person has their life taken away isnt that giving them the easy way out. Why not make them suffer in jail. Once they are dead they dont have to live up to what they did. Like i said it is the easy way out.

By: laura Hernandez

laura Hernandez — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:15:34 +0000

I believe that if the constitution states that a person is entitles to life, liberty, and property then how can a person have their life taken away by another?

By: Dorene O'Hara

Dorene O'Hara — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:52:20 +0000

I am a board certified anesthesiologist. The 3 drug protocol, in the doses that were listed on the web and in the order given, is an extremely pleasant way to go. Sodium pentothal induces a pleasant sleep, pancuronium (the muscle relaxant) paralyzes the muscles without affecting the sleep one way or the other, and potassium chloride stops the heart. The same drugs have been used in cardiac surgery when a patient is anesthetized, muscles paralyzed, and the heart stopped to allow cardiac bypass. The difference is that in cardiac surgery (CABG) the bypass machine delivers oxygen so that the patient remains alive until the heart and lungs can be started again. To suggest that this drug combination is cruel and unusual is ridiculous.

By: George Hines

George Hines — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:24:18 +0000

Paul Madison the other day made a powerfully factual argument in that the court is just "kidding themselves" in taking up such petitions. He had some pretty interesting remarks on why the 14th does not lend for such federal review. Can read it here if you are interested to give it a peek.

By: Mike Comstock

Mike Comstock — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:05:52 +0000

Well I think there should be someway of executing the killers including the child molesters. They take the life of that child even though the child is still breathing. Maybe that state should be required to pay for the mental health care for that child for the rest of its life and then we will see how quickly the state does something to lock them up for life or death. My understanding is that if they were housed with the general population they wouldn’t live long anyway. That is from the Arizona State Prison at Florence.
Mike