SirEDCaLot

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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

Exactly. The protocol was written by somebody with no medical training. So the first drug knocks the person out, the second drug paralyzes them, and the third drug stops the heart. Problem is, the third drug if given to a conscious person is incredibly painful. This created situations where the first drug was dosed wrong, so the person woke up but was unable to move.

Lethal injection could be much better done with a single drug system, like a massive overdose of barbiturates, but I think there is an unspoken desire to avoid any death that might be considered 'pleasant". Which to be honest is completely barbaric in my opinion.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think this applies more widely than just doctors. As a pilot, I could design an execution protocol using nitrogen that would be dirt cheap and totally painless. Any other pilot could write the same one. But I wouldn't do it, not if you paid me a million dollars. There are too many cases of innocent people getting executed, so I want nothing to do with any of it. Our judicial system is good, but it is not good enough to be relied on for taking life. So I would do nothing to help justify or condone or make tolerable the act of executing prisoners.

Also, this execution is a perfect example. Three bullets to the heart should kill someone dead in seconds. But the article mentions him crying out and flexing for the better part of a minute. That makes me think all three executioners missed the heart, perhaps on purpose.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

Makes sense, after all she was a DEI hire.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

JUST because he's black?
He would be harshly investigated by internal affairs and severely punished with a 30-day paid suspension. Not saying it's like that everywhere, but it seems to happen like that an awful lot :-(

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah I'm also struggling to see the logic in this.
The dude is already sort of a folk hero. If you kill him you will absolutely be creating a martyr. It's going to be one of those things that might not make a big impact right away, but the worse shit gets for rank and file Americans the more they will remember Luigi. And that's when you get copycats...

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly! So we throw him in a for-profit prison, where he is essentially a caged animal made to fight with the other caged animals. After a decade or two we put him out on parole with no marketable skills and a felony conviction to ensure nobody will hire him.

Then we act confused about why recidivism rates are high.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago

Oh for sure I agree.
I was just trying to point out the hypocrisy of jailing the gangbanger or letting him go versus throwing the book at Luigi and trying to execute him.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 28 points 3 months ago (7 children)

So riddle me this. Inner City, poor area, 2:00 a.m.
One gang member approaches another rival gang member, pulls out an illegally modified full auto pistol, dumps an entire 30 round magazine into him.
Does he get the death penalty?

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

DMs are exactly what you expect, like private email. Every service has some form of this.

Reddit chat is real time, designed for shorter messages and real-time communication.

The other difference is that everybody uses Reddit DMs and nobody uses Reddit chat. I have my chat turned off as do most others that I talk to.

So this is yet again another example of Reddit management not reading the room and forcing the use of a system people generally don't want.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sad but true. And they are taking some good stuff with them.

Squeeze box back in the day was the biggest competitor to Sonos. All open source. Logitech bought them, then just shut it down for no apparent reason. Same thing happened with Harmony. Best user programmable remote on the market, Logitech buys them, then shuts them down for no apparent reason.

I wish someone would scrape together a few million bucks or whatever Logitech would want to sell both brands, buy them, and resurrect them.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 8 points 3 months ago

They aren't even trying to come up with believable lies any more, right?

Yeah I'm wondering that too.

I looked at the thread on Reddit and I can't find one single user who says this is a good idea.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 6 points 3 months ago

I used to. I turned it off. There's an option somewhere to completely turn off Reddit chat.

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