The program was especially powerful in making the case why the death penalty should be abolished. The practice is so shameful that the manufacturers of the drugs used in lethal injections have refused to allow them to be used for this purpose so states that implement the death penalty have resorted to extreme secrecy to hide the name of the companies that they have mange to persuade to give them the drugs.
The investigative team at Last Week Tonight have identified a company that is not an authorized drug manufacturer but is the secret supplier to states of one such drug.
One of the most sickening things about the US is how very, very badly so many states want to kill people, but they really want to make it look like they’re being humane about it. A firing squad would be less horrifying than some of the stories that come out about the drugs being used.
Not to be nationalist, but we did away with this shit in 1967. It’s a paradox that the US is in so many ways a backwater.
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Since they want to kill so badly -- and since the governors need to turn down the requests to change the punishment (to life in prison) to appear ‘tough on crime’ -can you not require the governors to personally attend to pull the lever on the guillotine or whatever? That would reduce the enthusiasm.
As I have mentioned before, the last time we did this shit in Sweden was 1912.
And we had fewer cars spewing leaded chemichals everywhere so we did not get a generation of brain-addled dangerous people with weapons in the 1960s-1990s.
I think the last execution in France was during Pompidou. And Spain quit the particularly barbarian garrotte practice after the old fascist bastard Franco died.
The big executioners now are nice countries like Iran, China, Saudi Arabia…and USA.
In Canada, the last execution was in 1963, and the laws banned capital punishment for all civilian offences in 1976, and even the military laws were changed to ban it in 1999.
Like many other countries, Canada won’t even extradite someone if they’re likely to face a death penalty where they’d be going. Though this is somewhat more borderline in terms of support.
I wouldn’t be too sure about that -- I think many of them would revel in the opportunity to show how “tough on crime” they are.
KG is right: “requiring” governors to pull the lever or push the button would be handing them something too many of them dream about every day: the ability to kill people they hate, with minimal effort, and with no possibility of any consequences coming back to haunt them.