Then we can join the rest of the civilized world.

That's the 'Murkan way!

Seems as humane as any other method, and moreso than most.

Put them in an airtight room and fill it with pure nitrogen. Air is already 78 percent nitrogen, so apparently the body doesn't show any distress but the guest of honor croaks from oxygen deprivation...no one's actually tried it on a human, but they've euthanized test animals this way and it seems to work well.

George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was, at age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.

Stinney was convicted of murdering two pre-teen girls after police said he confessed to the murders.

The execution of George Stinney was carried out at the South Carolina State Penitentiary in Columbia, on June 16, 1944. At 7:30 p.m., Stinney walked to the execution chamber with a Bible under his arm, which he later used as a booster seat in the electric chair. Standing 5 foot 2 inches (157 cm) tall and weighing just over 90 pounds (40 kg),[4] his size (in relative to the fully grown prisoners) presented difficulties in securing him to the frame holding the electrodes. Nor did the state's adult-sized face-mask fit him; as he was hit with the first 2,400 V surge of electricity, the mask covering his face slipped off, “revealing his wide-open, tearful eyes and saliva coming from his mouth”...After two more jolts of electricity, the boy was dead." Stinney was declared dead within four minutes of the initial electrocution. From the time of the murders until Stinney's execution, eighty-one days had passed.

This case was in fact a Judicial Lynching

We are gearing up for a governor election. There are several scandals involving shady political pacs and an agency called 'jobs Ohio' that is a quasi public /private arm of the state government. They refuse to open their book for the republican state auditor.No one even knows what they do meanwhile no jobs are being created in Ohio.
Kasic is the guy from Leeman Bros who cost us like 400 million dollars out of our state employees fund I believe.He won by a very slim margine.He is going to steal the turnpike and the lottery as well as decertify the state employee unions if he is re-elected.
He has defunded our schools to the tune of about 500 million dollars that for some nefarious reason he has stashed in our rainy day fund.
If this criminal from Pittsburg gets re-elected get ready for one hell of a rainy day.

A massive dose of opioids, with a benzodiazepine chaser.

Such as: morphine 100 mg followed by valium 30 mg. Repeat as needed until breathing slows and stops.

Or use a continuous drip, uptitrating the dose to get the desired effect.

The problem wouldn't be obtaining the drugs. The problem is the vindictive jerks who want to pursue the death penalty don't want the prisoner's last sensation to be euphoria.

Give them drugs that could kill them but might make them feel peaceful? No way!

(Could use propofol, too. All sorts of anesthetics are available.)

There is no challenge to come up with a drug cocktail which could kill someone. It's coming up with one that doesn't feel good.

On edit: i finished the original article and they are going to use opioids and benzo's ( dilaudid and versed.).

"She said the state will turn to the drugs midazolam and hydromorphone, which are not commonly used in lethal injections, for the Phillips execution."

But, for those who are dedicated to the death penalty, it's not really a problem to obtain a lethal cocktail. They don't say "we can't find a lethal cocktail that feels bad", but that's what they really want.

Definitely get rid of the death penalty.
If only one innocent person is executed (murdered) then that should be reason enough to do away with "capital punishment."

Just load up 750-1000mg of diacetylmorphine (fancy medical heroin) and boom, Bob's your uncle. I swear, I think some of these rabily pro-DP'ers actively want it to be horrific, they'd use Saddam's plastic shredders if they could.

We used to use the most humane DP protocol in this country: the firing squad.

You didn't have to worry about hitting a vein.
You didn't have to worry about dealing with a heroin addict's veins.
You definitely didn't need to worry about the ethical concerns of medical people killing prisoners.
Getting the necessary "agents" is no problem.
And every cop in the world is trained to kill with a gun.

The lethal injection is for the benefit of the guest of honor's family, when they come to witness the execution.

Remember, the French kept guillotining as their execution method for a reason: the government wanted to abolish, but couldn't gain popular support...so they added a commnt about the effects of the guillotine to jury instructions, and no death sentence was handed down for 20 years. Firing squads plus a requirement that jury members witness executions could do the same here.

Rifle to the head at 10 yards. Humane, indeed.

I don't think the witnessing/instructions would be as effective here though, our nature is a little different.

The company that makes it is in Germany, and they will severely restrict exporting it to the US if we execute anyone with it. Jay Nixon in Missouri has halted the first propofol execution.

First off, I want to say that I'm against the death penalty.

That being said, every time I see a story where they say that they don't have drugs to use for lethal injection I wonder the same thing: why don't they just give whoever it is a lethal dose of heroin. They must have plenty of it confiscated off the street in drug busts. Since ODing from heroin seems to be common, it must be lethal. Is there a moral objection to using it? Do they think that using heroin for lethal injection might provide the person with a moment of pleasure before they die? If killing someone is the point, it seems that heroin would certainly be cheap and effective. I don't understand it but then again, I don't understand giving the state the power to take life in the first place.

I say we start with Rick Perry.

should be thrown into solitary for the rest of his miserable existence. Along with bush, cheney, rumsfailed, etc. ad nauseum.

can't trust them or something along those lines?

Unless you run an anesthesiology service...for some reason all the good anesthetics come from Germany. Chloroform and ether are made here, but no one wants to go back to those days.

But starvation takes too long.

Amen.

... but I just hope they give a lot of both. Neither opiates or benzos are known to be very reliable for suicide, despite how many they take who didn't intend to go.

That room was looking positively gloomy.

What a completely bizarre conversation.

It's cheaper, and more in line with the whole "justice" thing.