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HUH?
I realize morals, values and ethics are not absolute but if causing someone pain is a no no isn't killing them a bigger no no?
Where is the logic?
Quote:
(CNN) -- A federal court has granted a stay of execution for white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection in Missouri.
Franklin is on death row for the 1977 murder of Gerald Gordon outside a synagogue in St. Louis. He's been blamed for a total of 22 killings between 1977 and 1980 in a bid to start a race war.
He is challenging Missouri's decision to use the drug pentobarbital in its lethal injection protocol, arguing it would violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey granted a stay on Tuesday, finding Franklin's lawyers showed the use of pentobarbital carried "a high risk of contamination and prolonged, unnecessary pain beyond that which is required to achieve death."
Can't find drugs that make everyone happy?
Wouldn't the guillotine would be instant, painless and humane?
I mean if the gov is going to do this, there are many ways to kill someone.
And why in the frack did we pay to keep him alive for 30 or 40 years after his death sentence?
IMO making the guy sit there and think of his execution this long is cruel and unusual punishment.
I realize morals, values and ethics are not absolute but if causing someone pain is a no no isn't killing them a bigger no no?
Where is the logic?
Quote:
(CNN) -- A federal court has granted a stay of execution for white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection in Missouri.
Franklin is on death row for the 1977 murder of Gerald Gordon outside a synagogue in St. Louis. He's been blamed for a total of 22 killings between 1977 and 1980 in a bid to start a race war.
He is challenging Missouri's decision to use the drug pentobarbital in its lethal injection protocol, arguing it would violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey granted a stay on Tuesday, finding Franklin's lawyers showed the use of pentobarbital carried "a high risk of contamination and prolonged, unnecessary pain beyond that which is required to achieve death."
Can't find drugs that make everyone happy?
Wouldn't the guillotine would be instant, painless and humane?
I mean if the gov is going to do this, there are many ways to kill someone.
And why in the frack did we pay to keep him alive for 30 or 40 years after his death sentence?
IMO making the guy sit there and think of his execution this long is cruel and unusual punishment.