OCTOBER 10, 2007 --
LPR has, previously, suggested that denial of
nourishment (DON) replace lethal injection as the
accepted form of capital punishment and, thereafter,
noted that the United States Supreme Court may rule,
this term, on the constitutionality of death by
lethal injection.
If the Court rejects lethal injection executions,
this, in LPR's view, would not preclude the DON
method. Indeed, this is the method that
concludes performances of Verdi's opera "Aida. The
traitor Rhadames
is sentenced to death by entombment (and is joined by
Aida -- how she got into the tomb to die with her
beloved, I do not know).
Here is LPR's suggestion how DON can work. The
condemned is given the last meal. Thereupon, the
condemned is gets an injection to induce coma, which
will be the functional equivalent of "vegetative
state." The coma state injection (CSI) is maintained
until peaceful demise. And, of course, the "last
mile" will be a walk to a secure hospice, not to an
execution room. |
In view of the Terri Schiavo precedent the DON form of
execution can be neither cruel nor unusual.
LPR allows that persons sympathetic to the
American-bashing aims of Iran's president Ahmadinejad
might find death by stoning or beheading acceptable.
Persons objecting to capital punishment might consider
legislation
defining murder as an intentional act committed
without reference to right and wrong. Such
legislation would replace death row with insanity
lane.
For LPR, if hanging was good enough for Saddam....
Hmm, was that really Saddam Hussein who was executed? |
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