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Ohio killer to get 2-drug injection untried in US

Kinda vauge. Numbers, names, sentences.

Well form Canada Steven Truscott worngly sentenced to death in 1959 and Guy Paul Morin would have faced death penalty if it wasn't abolished. Wikipedia has a nice list of exonerated death row prisoners here.
From America (I trust you have Google):
Joseph Roger O'Dell III, Virginia
Johnny Garrett, Texas
Jesse Tafero, Florida
Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas

You can release someone form prison if they are still alive and serving a life sentence but not if they are dead.
 
Firstly, it's friggen cold here today in the "tundra". Secondly, we don't have the death penalty here and I don't personally support the death penalty.

As for "no possibility" of someone being wrongly convicted, there are many cases where it is unquestionable who killed and how - I can think of many cases here in Canada and I'm sure there are hundreds of such convicted murderers on death rows throughout the US.

They said that about the guy who allegedly murdered his children. No question, the house fire they died in was arson. Execute him!

Then it turned out it wasn't arson.
 
Kinda vauge. Numbers, names, sentences.

How many do you require before you find fault with the death penalty? Because to me, a single execution of an innocent person is enough to toss out the whole thing. Because how sure are you really that our government can't possibly **** up enough to decide you're a murderer when you aren't? I don't know about you, but it don't trust my government to the point where I think that's impossible.
 
How many do you require before you find fault with the death penalty? Because to me, a single execution of an innocent person is enough to toss out the whole thing.

In circumstances where we can simply file the person away and deal with them that way I agree. Where I still support the death penalty is with inmates that become total nightmares in the prison system, because there isn't much we can do to them after putting them into solatery and they represent a constant danger to guards.

At that point, I think there can be little argument for not executing them
 
In circumstances where we can simply file the person away and deal with them that way I agree. Where I still support the death penalty is with inmates that become total nightmares in the prison system, because there isn't much we can do to them after putting them into solatery and they represent a constant danger to guards.

At that point, I think there can be little argument for not executing them

and serial killers.
 
and serial killers.

well, we can even warehouse serial killers. It's when individuals start representing a threat, even within the limitations of a cell, that we need to obviously move beyond that
 
How many do you require before you find fault with the death penalty? Because to me, a single execution of an innocent person is enough to toss out the whole thing. Because how sure are you really that our government can't possibly **** up enough to decide you're a murderer when you aren't? I don't know about you, but it don't trust my government to the point where I think that's impossible.

I guess NASA should've shut down after 1986 too, right?
 
I dont oppose the death penalty but a lethal injection of drugs that has never been tested seems wrong.

Who is going to volunteer for that clinical trial?
 
There are some pretty sure methods already known that would seem more humane than trying a drug combo.

The guy raped a killed a pregnant woman and you are worried the new lethal injection combo won't work on him? Oh the horrible suffering he might endure if it doesn't work and just goes to sleep and wakes up later.... Who cares about this guy. Seems to me he gets to be a test case for the next one up for execution Ronald Miller, a man who raped and killed his girlfriend's 3 year old daughter. What are you worried there is a chance they could suffer a few seconds before dying?
 
The guy raped a killed a pregnant woman and you are worried the new lethal injection combo won't work on him? Oh the horrible suffering he might endure if it doesn't work and just goes to sleep and wakes up later.... Who cares about this guy. Seems to me he gets to be a test case for the next one up for execution Ronald Miller, a man who raped and killed his girlfriend's 3 year old daughter. What are you worried there is a chance they could suffer a few seconds before dying?

Your humanity seems to be warped. You should realize you still have to account for your own actions.
 
I'm not the one who supports the death penalty.

Well you seem to have some divine claim. Let me guess you can judge on homosexuals but you can't judge on criminals? Got it.
 
Your humanity seems to be warped. You should realize you still have to account for your own actions.

Yeah, we shouldn't judge on criminals, just homosexuals right?
 
The guy raped a killed a pregnant woman and you are worried the new lethal injection combo won't work on him? Oh the horrible suffering he might endure if it doesn't work and just goes to sleep and wakes up later.... Who cares about this guy. Seems to me he gets to be a test case for the next one up for execution Ronald Miller, a man who raped and killed his girlfriend's 3 year old daughter. What are you worried there is a chance they could suffer a few seconds before dying?

Regardless of the condemned's crimes I do think when being executed it should be done as painlessly and humanely as possible, yes.
 
Your humanity seems to be warped. You should realize you still have to account for your own actions.

What are you even talking about? The guy is going to get a strong sedative and go to sleep. He will then get a strong narcotic that stops his heart and lung function.... and this is supposed to result in some horrible death for him? How is that? Are you really going to stand up for a guy that raped and killed a pregnant woman? Sorry if the story of his impending execution doesn't tug at my heart strings.
 
What are you even talking about? The guy is going to get a strong sedative and go to sleep. He will then get a strong narcotic that stops his heart and lung function.... and this is supposed to result in some horrible death for him? How is that? Are you really going to stand up for a guy that raped and killed a pregnant woman? Sorry if the story of his impending execution doesn't tug at my heart strings.

Being untested an all, while that is what would happen in theory, we dont really know.
 
What are you even talking about? The guy is going to get a strong sedative and go to sleep. He will then get a strong narcotic that stops his heart and lung function.... and this is supposed to result in some horrible death for him? How is that? Are you really going to stand up for a guy that raped and killed a pregnant woman? Sorry if the story of his impending execution doesn't tug at my heart strings.

Hey, if you think killing people is fine, more power to ya. You're wrong though.
 
Hey, if you think killing people is fine, more power to ya. You're wrong though.

If you kill someone, the state should return the favor and kill you back.....
 
Well you seem to have some divine claim. Let me guess you can judge on homosexuals but you can't judge on criminals? Got it.

Obviously you don't have a clue what you're talking about. I don't "judge" homosexuals. Get a clue before you open your ridiculous pie hole.
 
Hey, if you think killing people is fine, more power to ya. You're wrong though.

I don't think killing people is right. However, subhuman scumbags like this guy is a different story. I realize reasonable people fall on both sides of the issue though.
 
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