We're not executing boyscouts here
From: BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Is death by lethal injection "cruel"?
Quite.
From: BBC NEWS | Programmes | This World | Is death by lethal injection "cruel"?
Interestingly the man who invented the lethal injection system is a doctor, the former Medical Examiner of Oklahoma, Dr A. J. Chapman, a forensic pathologist.
When electrocution - the execution system the state had previously been using - left some occupants of the electric chair partly grilled and even set aflame, state legislators asked him to find a better, more humane method.
He believes that the anxiety over "cruel and unusual" punishment is overdone.
In our interview I mentioned to him that 929 people had died by his lethal injection system.
"How many people have been murdered? That's an even bigger figure," he replied.
"I've seen what these people do to other people, so I think it's the height of nerve and cheekiness for them to say 'oh, I might feel a little pain,' when the judgement against them has been decided."
When electrocution - the execution system the state had previously been using - left some occupants of the electric chair partly grilled and even set aflame, state legislators asked him to find a better, more humane method.
He believes that the anxiety over "cruel and unusual" punishment is overdone.
In our interview I mentioned to him that 929 people had died by his lethal injection system.
"How many people have been murdered? That's an even bigger figure," he replied.
"I've seen what these people do to other people, so I think it's the height of nerve and cheekiness for them to say 'oh, I might feel a little pain,' when the judgement against them has been decided."
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