I've been thinking about capital punishment lately...

[jmowreader]

I keep seeing this thought:

"They put dogs to sleep with lethal injection and don't screw it up this bad, why can't they get it right with prisoners?"

Before lethal injection was deemed The Only Proper Way To Put Down An Animal, you know they did testing: they had to have cleaned out the pounds and killed animal after animal with various doses of drugs until they knew how much of what drug to use to kill without pain or excessive cost.

You can't do that with humans, which means every lethal injection execution is a medical experiment. Josef Mengele would be so proud.

[shenmue]

1. I used to be for it

Now, I'm not. Although I really, really, really hate murderers - as I think all not-loony people do - I just don't like the killing part. Stick them in a hellhole, let them rot.

[Hoppy]

2. Wrong question....

The question is, Why execute people at all?

[Laffy Kat]

3. The worst thing about the death penalty, I think,

is the effect it must have on those who administer it. It will stay with the administrators, prison guards, and other assistants for the rest of their lives. It must do something to them in the long run. You can't undo the deed. It is simply inhumane to everyone involved.