Defense attorneys said the use of ketamine, fentanyl and potassium chloride could cause ‘excruciating suffering’
Utah officials said on Saturday that they are scrapping plans to use an untested lethal drug combination in next month’s planned execution of a man in a 1998 murder case. They will instead seek out a drug that’s been used previously in executions in numerous states.
Defense attorneys for Taberon Dave Honie, 49, had sued in state court to stop the use of the drug combination, saying it could cause the defendant “excruciating suffering”.
The execution scheduled for 8 August would be Utah’s first since the 2010 execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner, by firing squad.
So to preface, I am absolutely and without reservation against the death penalty, so any state-sanctioned murder is unacceptable to me.
That being said, if they’re going for painless, why not just a captive bolt stunner the their brain stem? Like, having them lie back in a massage table with a container for the blood (heaven forbid the audience should experience the discomfort of gore with their death spectacle), and just pop it when it’s time. Guaranteed to shut them off, mess is handled, suitable for a casket, and no suffering. They wouldn’t even have a chance to feel it.
And if the thought of putting a human down like cattle is disturbing to you, good. It should be, just like any other way we would keep somebody locked up waiting to be killed.
Honestly, the guillotine was the peak. Every new method since then is simply more for the viewers comfort than the actual person dyingz
*as long as the blade is kept sharp
are there a significant number of reported “botched executions” with guillotine? Even if the weight is blunt, it is so heavy and comes down at such a force that it would likely break the spine and destroy the brain steam and cause a near instant death.
Only problem with that is open caskets and decapitation like that isn’t instant. The brain is still alive for a bit.
Yep. About 2-3 seconds is the estimate. Unless you are obliterated in a fireball, there’s no way for death to be truly instant.
Or just plain pure nitrogen. Not the way they incompetently did it a while back where the prisoner suffocated due to his own exhaled CO2, but pure nitrogen while venting his exhalations.
I’m also against the death penalty entirely, but I’ve always wondered why they need to be conscious. Why can’t they put them under general anesthesia, then push the chemical while they’re unconscious?
That is, ideally, what they want to do. However, to do it properly you would need a doctor, and doctors won’t help because of the whole “do no harm” thing. Kind of against their whole thing.
Have you been to Utah? There’s probably a few “good Mormon” doctors who would do it, citing deep scripture regarding blood atonement and that kind of BS.
Yeah and there’s probably a few actually good doctors on the medical board who would yank their licenses in a fucking heartbeat for participating.
Definitely. There’s a big enough group of decent enough people in Utah that help keep the state from turning into Florida or Texas, for now.
As a welder who has been trained to be very afraid of peacefully going to sleep in a forever nap, I have never understood why inert gas asphyxiation isn’t widely used. It’s literally easier than falling asleep and you can use the same gas over and over again.
Alabama tried that and managed to screw it up. You have to remove the carbon dioxide in the exhales to prevent the feeling of suffocation, and they didn’t provide enough nitrogen flow to do that. Took like twenty minutes of clearly desperate gasping and convulsions for the guy to pass.
“Whatever. As long as we get to kill a man who committed a crime more than 25 years later. Because that’s what we call Utah justice.”
Agreed, he should have been killed a lot sooner.
Or maybe the state shouldn’t have the power of life and death over it’s citizens since you can’t unkill an innocent person.
Utah.
The Oklahoma of Arizona’s Texas.
As an Oklahoman, this feels accurate.
Stealing this.
Stop calling it “execution”. Call it what it is: Murder
Whether you agree with capital punishment or not, “execution” is the more accurate definition. “Putting to death especially as a legal penalty”.
Execution is a penalty for murder.
Guillotine. Effective, repeatable, instantaneous.
But I think it overdose of marijuana should do the trick. Nobody would ever claim that was cruel.
Overdosing on THC is basically one long panic attack, which occurs waaaaaayyxy before you even come close to dieing. I think, some people might consider this cruel.
That’s kind of like the people who try to commit suicide with Tylenol. They think it’ll be painless, but they don’t realize that over the course of the next few weeks their organs will turn to jelly and they’ll be in incredibly pain.
Who gets the fun job of cleaning up all the blood?
Servpro, Crime Scene Cleanup, or Aftermath Services.
Hypoxia seems like a good way to go…
Sorry to quote “the forum we left behind”
Give me a firing squad every time.
Most of these “ethical” (i.e. clean) methods would be considered torture if they were non-lethal.
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not fine to deal fentanyl if you are an average citizen but more than okay if you are the justice system and intentionally OD someone
this is what happens when a cop lover with a prosecutor for a vice gets voted in
Yes, Biden and Harris are responsible for Utah’s state execution policies.
What kind of dumbass hot take is that?
I hope you know that fentanyl is an FDA approved prescription drug
