Tennessee executes child killer Billy Ray Irick with drug that inflicts 'torturous pain'

[Steeleballz 7,550]

2 minutes ago, Satisfied said:

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you were a recent addition to the #walkaway movement.  You’re really getting to be likeable!  

 

(Actually, I jest.  I think most on here, even with opposing views, would be easy to get along with IRL over a brew and some good discussion.  But it’s harder to understand one’s meaning & leaning via the written word.)

 

   I've been consistent whenever this subject comes up. I don't support the death penalty generally, but I do in crimes like this. I don't think the intent should be to torture someone to death, but I accept that any method of execution will probably cause some amount of pain, especially if they botch it. I guess if someone wants to avoid that outcome, don't commit a heinous inhuman crime that brings you to that end. 

 

   

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

4 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   I've been consistent whenever this subject comes up. I don't support the death penalty generally, but I do in crimes like this. I don't think the intent should be to torture someone to death, but I accept that any method of execution will probably cause some amount of pain, especially if they botch it. I guess if someone wants to avoid that outcome, don't commit a heinous inhuman crime that brings you to that end. 

 

   

Yep.  And as I posted above, I doubt they feel any pain at all.  If you’ve ever had a procedure that required a general anesthetic, you know that once you’re under, you pretty much feel nothing.  In fact, the general barbiturate they give as part 1 of 3 can induce death due to respiratory stoppage all on its own.  Not really a need for the salt stopping the heart, other than to be 100% sure.

 

In fact, Versed is used in patients in end-of-life situations where they are made to feel comfortable as they slowly expire.  

[TBoneTX 45,287]

Ought to bring back hanging, perhaps in the town square.

(Haven't checked, but wasn't Utah the last state to execute the condemned by means of hanging?)

[Dashinka 24,493]

16 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Ought to bring back hanging, perhaps in the town square.

(Haven't checked, but wasn't Utah the last state to execute the condemned by means of hanging?)

How about the guillotine?  Sure, to my knowledge it was never used in the US, but it was amazingly quick and who cares if it was painful, the person is dead, they aren't complaining anymore.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

I'd really like to slap the author of the piece quoted in the OP (not Steel).  "Torturous pain" my derriere.   A) the killer is asleep and on barbiturates, and 2) it's the same thing that was done for years.  It's as if he's trying to say that suddenly the state used torture methods to slowly kill the perp.

 

And another thing I'd like to point out is how stupid it is to have postponed this death for 32 years.  At $100 per day, that's over $1 mil wasted on this killer 

[Dashinka 24,493]

26 minutes ago, Satisfied said:

I'd really like to slap the author of the piece quoted in the OP (not Steel).  "Torturous pain" my derriere.   A) the killer is asleep and on barbiturates, and 2) it's the same thing that was done for years.  It's as if he's trying to say that suddenly the state used torture methods to slowly kill the perp.

 

And another thing I'd like to point out is how stupid it is to have postponed this death for 32 years.  At $100 per day, that's over $1 mil wasted on this killer 

I was thinking that the putting off the execution for 32 years is sort of a mental torture in and of itself.  Sure, they need to run the appeals, but those should not take 32 years.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

43 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

I was thinking that the putting off the execution for 32 years is sort of a mental torture in and of itself.  Sure, they need to run the appeals, but those should not take 32 years.

Exactly.  I mean, due process is fine.  But in cases like this, guilt is pretty clear.  Dragging out the process is wasteful from a fiscal standpoint, and I don't see why a brutal killer deserves to live.  He took that away from his victim(s).