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  • TUESDAY JUNE 27 2006 4:00 PM

Missouri Can't liKl People Anymore

Submitted by FearTheReaper

Edited by FearTheReaper

Tags: Missouri, Death, Penalty, executions, Lethal, injection

A judge put a stop to executions in Missouri today until the state makes changes in the way it kills people who have killed people.

U.S. District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. ruled the state’s lethal injection procedure subjects death row inmates to an unnecessary risk of "unconstitutional pain and suffering." The Department of Corrections has until July 15 to come up with a new protocol. Currently there is no written protocol which describes which drugs will be administered.

The judge was also "gravely concerned" because the lone doctor in charge of mixing the lethal drugs in Missouri is dyslexic. The dyslexic doctor has difficulty with numbers, which might be a problem when mixing drugs.

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Hooraydiation

Hooraydiation

Boston, MA
October 2005

JUN 27, 2006 05:55 PM

MschfMayhemSoap said:
isnt that the point of our Court System? to make sure that an "innocent" person doesnt get fried?

But then we also know the system aint perfect....



And like the mole on Cindy Crawford's face, the unjust deaths brought about by our flawed Court System only serve to make it that much more beautiful. I love you, America, fatal quirks and all.

MschfMayhemSoap

MschfMayhemSoap

Phoenix, AZ
April 2006

JUN 27, 2006 06:02 PM

"When they burned the accused witches,
they thought they were doing God's will.
But that's the trick about killing someone,
you can't take it back later." - Ranse "RT" Truman from the Game "The Suffering"

Since our system is so obviously flawed, no one wants to accept the responsibility of an "unjust" death, which brings us to the debate of the death penalty.

d_day

d_day

San Bernardino, CA
July 2002

JUN 27, 2006 06:34 PM

I sure am glad Missouri can't liKl people anymore. I hear that's quite painful.

PaulNikon

PaulNikon

Palm Bay, FL
February 2003

JUN 27, 2006 07:12 PM

Hooraydiation said:

PaulNikon said:
I bet it hurts even more when the "convicted" was really innocent.



Look at it from a broader perspective. Even if they weren't guilty of that crime, I'm sure they were guilty of something



This isn't the silliness board.

PaulNikon

PaulNikon

Palm Bay, FL
February 2003

JUN 27, 2006 07:13 PM

Anyone serious about this issue might check: Here

MschfMayhemSoap

MschfMayhemSoap

Phoenix, AZ
April 2006

JUN 27, 2006 07:13 PM

PaulNikon said:

Hooraydiation said:

PaulNikon said:
I bet it hurts even more when the "convicted" was really innocent.



Look at it from a broader perspective. Even if they weren't guilty of that crime, I'm sure they were guilty of something



This isn't the silliness board.



read under that post... it gets worse..

PaulNikon

PaulNikon

Palm Bay, FL
February 2003

JUN 27, 2006 07:23 PM

Oh, I did. Thouth I'd just respond to the first part.

FreakPirate

FreakPirate

Canada
November 2002

JUN 27, 2006 07:25 PM

darkgodz said:
pshhh.. ake em out back, put a bullet through their skull and bill the family $3.50.

i could care less how "painful" it is for some one who took the life of another.



Do me a favor. Stay the fuck out of law, politics and law enforcement.

Martini

Martini

SUICIDEGIRL

Ontario, Canada

JUN 27, 2006 07:36 PM

i thought making them suffer was like.. justice's final slap in the face for these fuckers?!
come on america, where is your sense of revenge?!

xo

MschfMayhemSoap

MschfMayhemSoap

Phoenix, AZ
April 2006

JUN 27, 2006 07:39 PM

this is America.... we dont have a sense of vengeance... thats just barbaric... WE a Civilized cunt-tree now...

*Note deep sarcasm*

ThisIsWhoWeAre

ThisIsWhoWeAre

Oakland, CA
July 2004

JUN 27, 2006 09:47 PM

Martini said:
i thought making them suffer was like.. justice's final slap in the face for these fuckers?!
come on america, where is your sense of revenge?!

xo



I heard that an over-developed sense of vengeance can get you into trouble some day.

Qiqel

Qiqel

Japan
January 2004

JUN 27, 2006 09:56 PM

Dyslexic or not, he's not a doctor anymore - he broke the Hippocratic oath.

"To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death."


If administering death is such a normal and fitting punishment, why do the states have to hire the scoundrels (and obviously incompetent ones) who can't keep the oath they give to do the job?

Vestril

Vestril

Coronado, CA
February 2003

JUN 27, 2006 10:32 PM

Mamushi said:
Dyslexic or not, he's not a doctor anymore - he broke the Hippocratic oath.

"To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death."


If administering death is such a normal and fitting punishment, why do the states have to hire the scoundrels (and obviously incompetent ones) who can't keep the oath they give to do the job?



I didn't know Doctors still swore to it. In fact I thought they didn't.

Iggy

Iggy

SUICIDEGIRL

Alabama, USA

JUN 28, 2006 08:55 AM

while i don't particularly believe in the death penalty I think its awful that the judge took the doctors dyslexia into account....that just shows how people still don't understand learning disabilities......

buzzhum

buzzhum

Atlanta, GA
February 2003

JUN 28, 2006 01:40 PM

PaulNikon said:
I bet it hurts even more when the "convicted" was really innocent.



Has anyone ever heard of THE INNOCENCE PROJECT or in my case, as a close friend is the founder of it :www.ga-innocenceproject.org

They work on things like this...and are bad asses

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