Saturday, December 16, 2006

Pnak The Magnificable says



Bedknobs and Broomsticks.”

”Bedknobs. And. Broomsticks.”

The question is:
“What are two of the new toys I’m giving Abu Gonzalez for Christmas this year to use on the brownskins down at my Gitmo plantation.”


But there may be a flicker of hope here.

A heartwarming holiday parable -- A veritable “Gift of the Jebbi” if you will -- wherein we learn that all it takes for at least one member of the Bush Crime Family to stop state-sponsored torture in the People’s Republic of Florida…

Bush suspends death penalty amid claims 34-minute execution was botched

John Kennedy and Maya Bell
Orlando Sentinel
Posted December 16 2006

TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Jeb Bush suspended the death penalty in Florida on Friday after a medical examiner said executioners botched the insertion of needles in the arms of a convicted killer who took 34 minutes to die.

Angel Nieves Díaz's death by lethal injection took twice as long as usual and required double the conventional dosage during Wednesday night's execution at Florida State Prison.

Bush's action came as a federal judge in California imposed a moratorium on executions in that state, saying the manner in which lethal injection is imposed there may violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

In Florida, Dr. William Hamilton said the findings from his preliminary autopsy of Díaz clearly showed that Death Row staff, whom officials would not identify, failed to properly insert intravenous needles into the killer.

"I think the main problem...was the fluids to be injected were not going into a vein, but into the soft tissues of the arm," said Hamilton, the medical examiner for the Gainesville area.

Hamilton, though, declined to speculate whether Díaz felt pain, even though it appeared the anesthetic failed to enter his veins. "I am going to defer questions about pain and suffering until the autopsy is complete," Hamilton said.

However, Dr. Jonathan Groner, an Ohio surgeon who has written extensively about lethal injection, said Díaz's execution amounts to "death by torture."

"This is a major disaster. If they can't get an IV in then it doesn't matter how much drug they give him," Groner said.


...is massive and public humiliation over a horrifying and tragic fuckup.

Too bad The Decider doesn’t give a shit anymore about what the public thinks.

Or the press.

Or the experts.

Or the ISG.

Or his Daddy.

Or the Founders.

Or Jesus.

2 comments:

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Now we see the inhumanity inherent in the death penalty.

Anonymous said...

Help, help, he's being repressed!



The standard lame-brain answer is the rhetorical question, "Did HE care when his victims suffered?"