She has a medical condition that makes it difficult to locate a vein with a needle, so it's likely a majority of the drug administered were injected into her arm muscles instead, which slowed the diffusion enough to save her. She and her attorney warned the state this scenario was likely to occur because of that medical condition, and they ignored her and did it anyway.

Very likely. Women have been ridiculously understudied in medicine.

Pentagon Pete just promised to live stream the firing squad execution. I think he's trying to prove he's the most tough by being the most cruel.

Medical professionals typically refuse to have anything to do with executions. It kinda goes against the Hippocratic oath.

It's because judicially approved murder is extremely unpopular in educated and competent circles.

Meaning anyone willing to take part in the affair is most likely wholly undercompetent to try.

Not only are the vast majority of doctors and nurses personally against it, but even the few that aren't won't do it because the medical associations would have a hell of a time revoking the executioner's licence.

I mean they are torturing her

You know, a giant skull-crusher might actually be the preferable form of execution. Imagine one of those big hydraulic pile driving hammers. Just imagine a human skull at the impact point. Imagine not literally using one of those machines, but an execution device built around such a mechanism.

Grizzly as hell, but honestly, I don't think we should factor the comfort of the execution audience into this. The state is murdering someone. The law may have judged this person worthy of being murdered, but they are still being murdered. Let it be as physically gruesome as it is morally.

And why the giant head-crusher? Because it would be the perfect method from the condemned's point of view. It's instant and completely painless. The skull is flying apart like Gallagher's watermelon before the pain signal can even be processed. This beats even the guillotine, which gave the victim a few last seconds of horror, as they experienced the pain of the blade and the experience of being a head falling into a basket. Also, it's pretty much idiot proof. You don't have to worry about a clumsy sheriff-playing-as-doctor to administer a cocktail of medications. You check if the machine runs before the execution, but otherwise there's no real way to fuck it up.

In theory nitrogen asphyxiation is the ideal way to do things. No pain. Just a gradual tiredness followed by sleep and death. But then you have to worry about nitrogen leaking out of a chamber and asphyxiating the observers.

Or Hell, if we really could get over ourselves, the ideal method would probably just be massive doses of opioids. No real way to screw that up. In terms of fuck-ups, worse that happens is they get underdosed, they don't stop breathing, and you dose them again while they're asleep. But we don't like the idea of murderers being able to die in a state of medicated bliss and permanent sleep, so that's right out.

Honestly, a giant head crusher would be far more humane than our current methods.

I think Donald only does that to younger girls

I am pretty sure I would just want to be dead.

From the videos I saw it actually has a line in there that if this method doesnt work then electric chair is the next option. Considering what happened though it will be years and years of appeals and my guess is she just dies naturally in jail. Guess well see if her lawyers can pull off something crazier though.

I had an opinion but another one bites the dust.