re: Does anyone care that it took this piece of crap 2 hrs to die?

OK, I'm against the death penalty for numerous reasons. The two big ones are cost and can't ever correct a mistake.

The first is just straight true. It is less expensive to keep someone in jail for the rest of their lives than to kill them. This is due to the costs of all the legal proceedings that have to occur before you can kill someone.

The second is pretty self evident.

But this is not about whether one is for or against the death penalty. This is about this particular death.

The guy was sleeping for must of that time. His gasping for air is something that just isn't felt by the patient any more than snoring is to a sleeping person. Now if you snore loud enough, you will wake yourself up, but he wouldn't.

I don't understand the hooplah. He is dead. He didn't feel a thing. BFD.

The problem is the guy gasped for air a bunch of times. People do this sleeping all the time. I am not sure what the gasping was for, but it seems like this will be used just to get the executions to stop when in reality unless I read otherwise the guy didn't feel a thing.

In reality this "gasping for air" seems to be more of a problem for the witnesses than anything else. So what we need to do is find a way to painlessly kill them and kill them in a way that is nonviolent and easy for people to watch.

That seems to be a bit ridiculous and over and above what is really constitutional. If we are going to get rid of the death penalty, we have lots of real reasons to debate and get rid of it. But this seems to be fluff which in reality just adds total crap to what should be a serious discussion as to its positives (if any) and negatives (which are many).