It looks like a
botched execution in Florida has resulted in the Gov. to make a call for all executions to be put on hold. It looks like the reason for this was because the needles were not inserted properly, causing Angel Nieves Diaz, to be in extreme pain.
Apparently is took twice as long for the execution to take place due to this.
One thing that I found interesting was this:
I'm sure that there was alot of pain, but I have to wonder if anyone thought about the pain the girl he killed was going through. These types of executions seem to be quick and painless for the most part, this one being an exception.
I think the execution was not botched. The man is dead. Doesn't that, by definition, indicate a successful execution?
The niece, however, is apparently unaware of the definition for the word 'literally'. While the execution process may have been painful for her uncle, he certainly was not crucified. Although, that does raise some interesting questions in the Terri Schiavo Right to Life State, doesn't it? Would crucifiction be an acceptable form of execution of capital punishment?
The first drug injected in the process is a paralyzing drug. This prevents the patient from indicating any level of pain when the second (and I think third) drugs are administered. This does present some interesting questions.
I will disagree with you, Mike, as to whether we should be thinking about the pain suffered by the criminal's victim. While that can be, I think, a motivating factor in sentencing, it should not be considered when carrying out the sentence. If we justify the criminal's, possibly, painful experience as the State takes the life, by the pain his victim suffered, we are moving out of the realm of justice, and into the realm of vengence.
Justice is supposed to be blind, and balanced. If we betray those principles to vengence, we begin to walk the path of vigalantism. Soon, many attrocious behaviors can be justified with the same reasoning.
19 Arab men destroyed thousands of lives and a couple of buildings; those men are now dead. Once we took the scales out of the hands of Lady Justice, we have justified indefinate imprisonment, varying degrees of mental and physical abuse, and erased one of the longest established rights of democratic society - the right to petition your emprisoner - all of which seems motivated by vengence, because the death of those men prevented us from administering blind justice.
