This has always just confused the hell out of me. Why should anyone give a rats ass if a murderer feels any pain during his/her execution?
Judge halts all Missouri executions on pain issue
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - A judge on Monday ordered all executions put on hold in Missouri after a condemned man challenged lethal injection as a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s protection against undue pain and suffering.
U.S. District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. said the execution process as carried out in Missouri was not consistent and “subject to change (in protocol) at a moment’s notice.”
The appeal against lethal injection was brought by lawyers working for Michael Taylor, a Kansas City man convicted of killing a teen-aged girl in 1989.
His execution date had not been set, nor are there presently any executions scheduled in Missouri. The nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center says 52 convicts are on the state’s death row.
Lethal injection, used in more than 30 states, is under legal attack.
In a precedent-setting case the U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that Florida death row inmate Clarence Hill could pursue his challenge in lower courts on his contention that the chemicals could cause unnecessary pain.
The method typically employs three chemicals, one to induce sleep, a second to stop breathing and a third to halt the heart.
I’m sure Michael Taylor gave his poor victim something to “induce sleep” and then killed her. Yeah …. right.
Oh it gets better … in this blurb from another story on it the Judge makes a complete ass out of himself, attacking the doctor.
The judge also said he was “gravely concerned” because the lone doctor in charge of mixing the lethal cocktail in Missouri is dyslexic. Someone else administers the drugs.
The doctor’s dyslexia, the judge wrote, “causes him confusion with regard to numbers.”
In another news report … evidently pain is “unconstitutional” ?
In a 16-page opinion, U.S. Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. said the state’s lethal injection procedure subjects condemned inmates to an “unnecessary risk” of “unconstitutional pain and suffering.”
Uh?
Well finally! I had to go through 10 different reports before I found a link to another story that told exactly what this pain fearing peice of trash did to his victim. Not one story had in it what Taylor did to his victim … not one that I looked at.
Taylor was convicted of killing 15-year-old Ann Harrison, who was waiting for a school bus in front of her family’s Kansas City home when he and an accomplice kidnapped her in March 1989. Harrison was raped, stabbed to death and abandoned in the trunk of a car.
Taylor pleaded guilty and said he was high on crack cocaine at the time.
Did you catch that last line? The asswipe was “high on crack” … so why’s he afraid of a little ‘ol injection?
When are the panty waste courts going to stop pandering to the most vile of people in our country? This man was sentenced to death … who cares if the son-of-a-bitch feels any pain in that? Personally, I think he should receive the same death sentence he gave his victim.
Those of you that have read Ann Coulter’s book “Godless” … you know which chapters came flying back into my mind after doing this post.
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June 27th, 2006 at 12:12 am
I think they’re right… Lethal injection isn’t a good form of punishment for what he did. Instead they should use one of two options…
A) Get to the point and just put him in the chair, see how humane they think that is. They’ll be begging for the needle when his eyes start to fry out.
B) Just give him life in prison with a bunch of brutal murderers. They love those guys. Taylor will hold onto bubba’s pocket and sit down when he pees… His ass hole would be the size of a basketball. But hell, he aint getting the injection right?
Imagine what little Ann would say to this if she were still alive. Ooop, they didn’t think of that now did they!?
June 27th, 2006 at 2:23 am
We need the gallows for people like this, no two ways about it. Talk about a deterrent…