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Three Death Row inmates say the three-drug cocktail used in lethal injections have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for executions and want a federal judge to issue an injunction to stop the state from using the drugs until it complies with federal drug laws.
According to sources at the Allstate Insurance Company, CIA Director Michael Hayden purchased nuclear-attack insurance Wednesday, paying a $100,000 monthly premium for his homes in suburban Washington, Pittsburgh, and near Cheyenne Mountain, CO.
Thanks to Monique van Hoek and Daniel Rothschild for pointers.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on January 26, 2007 at 07:19 AM in The Arts | Permalink
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The first article would be absurd if the practice and the method of capital punishment weren't so absurd already. The callousness is shocking.
Posted by: eriks at Jan 26, 2007 9:39:49 AM
$100k monthly? That's got to be a typo, no? Doesn't that represent some ridiculously high (I pray) probability of being nuked?
Posted by: T_Porter at Jan 26, 2007 10:31:31 AM
Oh Jeez, I need to be more careful what/when I read. Typo should be more like "Onion could have made it more believable".
Posted by: T_Porter at Jan 26, 2007 10:32:46 AM
Gee, eriks, how should capital punishment be administered?
Posted by: y81 at Jan 26, 2007 11:53:49 AM
I propose that the a condemned inmate be allowed to choose the manner of his death subject to the following rules:
1: It must be possible in reasonable time
2: It can't cost more than [say] $25,000
3: It can't be dangerous to people other than the inmate
4: It must not be illegal or violate a treaty [the condemned inmate cannot ask to be buried with a nuclear weapon, for example].
I for one think that a nitrogen room would be a very humane method of legal execution. See "1981 March 19: anoxia:" in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_disaster . The technicians who survived report that they just went to sleep -- they did not suffer in any way.
-dk
Posted by: Dick King at Jan 26, 2007 1:34:14 PM
I think it was self evident that my answer would be "not at all." In any case, this particular method isn't even used on dogs because it so closely approximates torture.
Posted by: eriks at Jan 26, 2007 3:02:59 PM
All the methods following hanging have been worse. A proper hanging(no short drops) literally "only hurts for a second." A proper hanging(which isn't that hard to ensure)severes the spinal cord and causes immediate death.
Posted by: lee at Jan 26, 2007 5:12:59 PM
It seems kind of odd that the Food and Drug Administration would need to approve the process of lethal injections. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about Capital Punishment but I somehow feel that those on death row did not consider the pain their victims went through prior and during their death and I’m not sure they deserve the same consideration.
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