Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Alabama’s Shocking Plan To Murder a US Citizen" video.

  1. I was told a very similar thing by a doctor many years ago. Its one of the issues with palliative care. They eventually get to a point where the treatment is doing more harm than good. I have watched 3 members of my family die from cancer so I am familiar with cancer.
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  2. Its America NOT France. The French had a rule that if the guillotine blade stuck then you got to go free. It was sort of God's choice. Unfortunately it was a very rare thing.
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  3. I know this will sound callous but they are using the wrong gas. They should be using Carbon Dioxide (CO2). Please bear with because there is a shocking part to this story. A number of years ago when the types of drugs being used were under question a British Journalist did a straight forward "what are the alternatives" documentary. I saw it on the website for the Melbourne Age (part of Fairfax media) in Australia. After evaluating all the different ways that animals are disposed of and humans are executed the most reliable and least invasive and least cruel method this journalist found was carbon dioxide. Above a particular level CO2 simply knocks a person out after a brief moment of euphoria (light headedness). Its very quick as was shown with the Lake Nyos (Cameroon) disaster in 1986. A cloud of CO2 was released from the lake and it swept downhill and wiped out several villages. They could see from the footprints that most people were knocked out instantly with only a few taking a couple of foot steps. THIS IS THE SHOCKING PART. When the journalist presented what he found to the doctor in charge of executions in one of the US States (Sorry I forget which one) that doctor replied that he didn't care and said (paraphrasing) "Its not meant to be nice its a punishment." Just so we are clear my issue with the death penalty is not that it exists. There can always be some argument made that person 'X' did crime 'Y' and its so egregious that they deserve death. My problem with the death penalty is THE ATTITUDE of those pursuing it. As in are they pursuing justice or something else like vengeance or political gain. In my home state of Victoria (Australia) our last execution was Ronald Ryan a small time criminal who was convicted of killing a guard during a prison escape. There were numerous flaws in the evidence presented with at least 2 witnesses lying. The ballistics made it almost certain the guard was accidentally shot by another guard in a tower on the prison wall. Government papers from meetings that were only released only a few years ago have made it clear the government of the day were fully aware of the actual facts (the lies and the ballistics). Its in the record that when presented with these facts the Victorian Premier Sir Henry Bolte was noted to have said words to the effect "We have an election to win later this year and this will make me look tough on crime." They went on to win that election in a landslide.
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