Could you execute someone on death row?

Djaughe · October 6th, 2005, 08:42 AM

For simplification in this poll...here are the parameters:

The inmate has been condemend by the legal system to be executed - with no hope for parole.
All the evidence (including DNA, witnesses, etc) prove without a doubt that he/she committed murder.
The victim's immediate family wants the execution to happen.
The inmate's family pleads for the inmates life.
The method of execution is lethal injection.
Upon your signal - a large dose of sodium thiopental (a common hospital anesthetic) is delivered, causing unconsciousness. This is followed by pancuronium bromide, which is a muscle-relaxer which paralyzes the lungs and diaphragm. This causes the inmate's respiration to slow significantly. Finally, potassium chloride is introduced into the IV, which causes a fatal cardiac arrest.
Death usually occurs approximately 7 minutes after the lethal injection begins.

Derm · October 6th, 2005, 10:14 AM

I went wobbly and voted don't know. There is no question in my world about other circumstances but I don't know about a prisoner.

Djaughe · October 6th, 2005, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Derm

I went wobbly and voted don't know. There is no question in my world about other circumstances but I don't know about a prisoner.

I went to the 'I don't know' group myself.

KloD · October 6th, 2005, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Derm

I went wobbly and voted don't know. There is no question in my world about other circumstances but I don't know about a prisoner.

I'm guessing because of your religious beliefs that you would not in other cases, is a prisoner not a human being? How is killing a person based on their breaking man made laws justified?

40yearfan · October 6th, 2005, 10:19 AM

How much does this job pay and where's the button.

CardLogic · October 6th, 2005, 10:20 AM

I could...

But I wouldn't!

Derm · October 6th, 2005, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by KloD

I'm guessing because of your religious beliefs that you would not in other cases, is a prisoner not a human being? How is killing a person based on their breaking man made laws justified?

Actually I'm wobbly on the prisoner situation because I am wobbly on the ethics of the death penalty (believe it or not). I have a very clear conscience on the combat/self-defense/law enforcement situations.

jenna2891 · October 6th, 2005, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Derm

Actually I'm wobbly on the prisoner situation because I am wobbly on the ethics of the death penalty (believe it or not). I have a very clear conscience on the combat/self-defense/law enforcement situations.

what he said.

CardFan67 · October 6th, 2005, 10:41 AM

I would have no problem at all... I would have reservations with that electric chair thing though (do they still do that)... saw a movie with some documentary footage of executions and the lethal injection thing is not much different than having your pet put down (which I have had to have done on a few occasions), except my dog did not do something horrendous...