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<blockquote data-quote="Whyayeman" data-source="post: 76408859" data-attributes="member: 415320"><p>Indeed. Botched executions are a regular occurrence in America. Compared with the very high murder rate executions are rare in your country. Death Row is crowded, with men (and some women I suppose) waiting many years before sentence is carried out. The method now favoured in some states is lethal injection. I think this is meant to be more humane; if so it is a terrible, cruel failure. The condemned invariably show signs of extreme distress for many minutes.</p><p></p><p>The history of capital punishment is one of increasing sensitivity or squeamishness about the method employed. I think lethal injection is a retrograde step, earlier methods being designed to be instantaneous.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Easy. As a believer you will be familiar with the concept of leaving judgment of human souls to God. That takes care of the difference for Christians. For the rest of us we have the shared understanding of what we expect from a caring, responsible society; humane values applied in all circumstances.</p><p></p><p>What the Law does in our name has to be seen as the best of what we are. This terrible case is - as I have said earlier - the toughest test of the quality of our society. I believe the Oklahoman authority has failed the test abjectly and shamefully. America and Americans are better than this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whyayeman, post: 76408859, member: 415320"] Indeed. Botched executions are a regular occurrence in America. Compared with the very high murder rate executions are rare in your country. Death Row is crowded, with men (and some women I suppose) waiting many years before sentence is carried out. The method now favoured in some states is lethal injection. I think this is meant to be more humane; if so it is a terrible, cruel failure. The condemned invariably show signs of extreme distress for many minutes. The history of capital punishment is one of increasing sensitivity or squeamishness about the method employed. I think lethal injection is a retrograde step, earlier methods being designed to be instantaneous. Easy. As a believer you will be familiar with the concept of leaving judgment of human souls to God. That takes care of the difference for Christians. For the rest of us we have the shared understanding of what we expect from a caring, responsible society; humane values applied in all circumstances. What the Law does in our name has to be seen as the best of what we are. This terrible case is - as I have said earlier - the toughest test of the quality of our society. I believe the Oklahoman authority has failed the test abjectly and shamefully. America and Americans are better than this. [/QUOTE]
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