How come all the death penalty madness with these illegal drugs

[malaise]

secrecy laws and bloody thirsty murderous governors and legislators is happening fucking ReTHUG states.

These scumbags love torture.

[Skidmore]

1. Are you watching Rachel now?

She is going through the history of this. It is complicated with many moving parts.

[avebury]

2. I had not realized how many different drug

combinations Oklahoma has considered using. It is beyond disgusting.

OMG! The drugs they used were supposed to calm the guy, paralyze the guy and then kill the buy. What could possibly go wrong.

Apparently a lot!

[Skidmore]

4. It is beyond disgusting to me that physicians/pharmacists would agree to participate in the process.

[avebury]

7. And so telling that European countries

refuse to sell any of the drugs to the US for use in execution.

We have truly become the type of country that we railed against for so many decades.

[malaise]

5. They should test them on Fallin

and I hate myself for saying that for I am profoundly against the death penalty.

This is torture - plain and simple.

[avebury]

10. The idea of using a paralysis drug in the

middle of the "drug cocktail" makes me totally sick! If you paralyze someone you have no idea just how bad the experience is for the condemned. They could possibly still awake when the final drug is given.

[malaise]

3. Yes - amazing report

Remember her PhD is about the prison system - she knows this stuff.

[elleng]

6. Back to electric chairs for these sick states,

please.

[GeorgeGist]

13. Watch 'Green Mile' ...

and get back to us.

[elleng]

14. Have done,

and watching Rachel.

Firing squad.

[onehandle]

8. Rachel is clearly in the pocket of standard execution drug manufacturers.

Why else would she be going after these crazy alternative death cocktails?

Heh...

[malaise]

9. I am so pissed I am shaking here

Noooooooooooooooo - in the name of humanity nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Fallin must go.

[avebury]

11. The investigation must be conducted by an

independent third party from outside of Oklahoma. I would not trust the report issued by any type of internal (i.e. within Oklahoma) investigation.

[GeorgeGist]

12. Sociopathy is in vogue ...

it seems.

[elleng]

16. Has been,

and repugs specialize in it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. The death penalty of today is part and parcel of Reaganism/neoliberalism

To be a death penalty supporter today is to be a Reaganite. No question. The abolition of the death penalty was one of the great accomplishments of mid-twentieth century liberalism. It was the last triumph of the New Deal. It's resurgence is the Reagan Revolution writ large. Pro-death penalty people are Reaganites, pure and simple.