Current Events > The US botched 35% of executions this year

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Bringing back the firing squad?

Bringing back the firing squad?

Looks like they just suck at finding a vein to inject the drugs. If the criminals were IV drug abusers, those veins are fucking impossible to find if you're trying to inject them with something >_>

Why do they sentence people to death but keep them going for decades >_> Why dont they just end it in a few weeks or something?

Why do they sentence people to death but keep them going for decades >_>

Why do they sentence people to death but keep them going for decades >_> Why dont they just end it in a few weeks or something?

Why do they sentence people to death but keep them going for decades >_> Why dont they just end it in a few weeks or something?

that brings the total number of exonerated death-row prisoners since 1973 to 190

This also applies to black people. Very tough to find the vein on people with darker skin. Remember this from doing CLS (combat lifesaver basically first aid for non-medics) training in the Army.

Seems like this can be solved easily using the right kind of light and the right kind of camera. These devices have to exist, no?

abolish the death penalty

Become more efficient.

since it costs less money and resources to house prisoners forever instead of enforcing the death penalty, i assume you're also advocating to abolish the death penalty.

No, I mean make the death penalty more cost effective and deliver it more efficiently.

Enforcing the death penalty costs Florida $51 million a year above what it would cost to punish all first-degree murderers with life in prison without parole. Based on the 44 executions Florida had carried out since 1976, that amounts to a cost of $24 million for each execution.

Maybe they should go back to something else.

Enforcing the death penalty costs Florida $51 million a year above what it would cost to punish all first-degree murderers with life in prison without parole.

The following two executions of Alan Miller and Kenneth Smith were called off because the execution team were unable to find a workable vein before the death warrant expired.

And then will come the arguments about how keeping first-degree murderers in prison for life without parole makes no economic sense, is unnecessary, and is inhumane. The goalposts will just keep moving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

Or just... don't bother.

It costs more to execute a prisoner, usually two or three decades later, than it does to just warehouse him forever. Death penalty serves no useful purpose.

So guillotine then?