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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeath row inmates argue their executions would amount to human experimentation on prisoners after bo
Oklahoma inmates file lawsuit over 'unconstitutional' executions
Death row inmates argue their executions would amount to human experimentation on prisoners after botched execution
A group of Oklahoma death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit against state officials on Wednesday, arguing their executions would violate the constitution and amount to human experimentation on prisoners after a botched execution earlier this year.
Lawyers filed the complaint on behalf of 20 men and one woman in the US district court for the western district of Oklahoma against the state’s corrections director Robert Patton, Oklahoma State Penitentiary warden Anita Trammell, members of the board of corrections and unnamed people involved in lethal injection.
The unnamed defendants are a doctor responsible for inserting intravenous lines and cutting into inmates to gain vein access, a paramedic also responsible for inserting IVs and three anonymous executioners who administer the drugs.
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Death row inmates argue their executions would amount to human experimentation on prisoners after botched execution
A group of Oklahoma death row inmates filed a federal lawsuit against state officials on Wednesday, arguing their executions would violate the constitution and amount to human experimentation on prisoners after a botched execution earlier this year.
Lawyers filed the complaint on behalf of 20 men and one woman in the US district court for the western district of Oklahoma against the state’s corrections director Robert Patton, Oklahoma State Penitentiary warden Anita Trammell, members of the board of corrections and unnamed people involved in lethal injection.
The unnamed defendants are a doctor responsible for inserting intravenous lines and cutting into inmates to gain vein access, a paramedic also responsible for inserting IVs and three anonymous executioners who administer the drugs.
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Link to the Guardian article
I think this argument is appropriate given the circumstances.
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Death row inmates argue their executions would amount to human experimentation on prisoners after bo (Original Post)
MohRokTah
Jun 2014
OP
Sounds to me that the state is more interested in inflicting cruel and unusual punishment than...
MohRokTah
Jun 2014
#2
Experimenting with drugs as a form of executioin is absolutely cruel and unsual.
MohRokTah
Jun 2014
#4
it is to you - they could be given an overdose of heroin, we have lots of that in the u.s.
leftyohiolib
Jun 2014
#5
no i havent - but im too upset right now about the recess appointment decision
leftyohiolib
Jun 2014
#7
There's always hanging or Old Sparky. The gas chamber or a firing squad would also work
badtoworse
Jun 2014
#8
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)1. sounds to me like theyre more afraid of the dp than life in prison
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)2. Sounds to me that the state is more interested in inflicting cruel and unusual punishment than...
justice.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)3. cruel and unusual is subjective
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)4. Experimenting with drugs as a form of executioin is absolutely cruel and unsual.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)5. it is to you - they could be given an overdose of heroin, we have lots of that in the u.s.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)6. Ever seen anybody die from an overdose of heroin?
Obviously you haven't.
Hanging with a proper noose would be less cruel and unusual.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)7. no i havent - but im too upset right now about the recess appointment decision
by the pliticians in robes to even care about these criminals anymore
badtoworse
(5,957 posts)8. There's always hanging or Old Sparky. The gas chamber or a firing squad would also work
