Justice Kagan On Botched Executions: Prisoners 'Burned Alive From Inside'

[DonViejo]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices are engaging in an impassioned debate about capital punishment — part of Wednesday's arguments over the use of a single drug that has been used in several botched executions.

The justices heard arguments over the plea of death row inmates in Oklahoma to outlaw the sedative midazolam. They say it is ineffective in preventing searing pain from the other drugs used in lethal injections.

But the hour-plus session featured complaints from conservative justices that death penalty opponents are waging what Justice Samuel Alito called a "guerrilla war" against executions by working to limit the supply of more effective drugs.

Among the court's liberals, Justice Elena Kagan said the way states carry out most executions amounts to having prisoners, in her words, "burned alive from the inside."

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[papertolio]

1. Drugs which don't make people feel like they're burning alive

Are being held back by manufacturers against the death penalty. I think they should not hold them back so that people don't feel like they are burning alive. I am against the use of drugs that make people feel like they are burning alive.

[NaturalHigh]

2. Replace the death penalty with Life Without Parole. Problem solved.