Well, after much to-do and hoo-ha (both technical political terms- don't let me get ahead of you) Gov. Jeb Bush has halted executions in Florida. The full CNN story can be found
here.
Let me offer my skewed synopsis and twisted opinion over some Saturday morning coffee.....Several members of our government, the medical community and professional activists are concerned that the lethal injections we administer to inmates during their last moments on the green mile are painful and therefore violate our "cruel and unusual punishment" policy. The inmates might even be
conscious when their heart stops. Oh, Fuck me.
This man was a rapist and murderer!!! Do you believe for a moment that he HUMANELY raped and murdered his victim???? I believe fully in the
Innocence Project, certainly one of the few "applausable" moments in Barry Scheck's career (OJ). I understand that there are men serving sentences and dying as consequences of crimes they never dreamed of committing. However, chances are most likey, that this bastard is guilty as sin, and I believe I wouldn't waste the time I spend filing my nails wondering if a rapist "feels as though his arms are on fire" before he meets his ultimate fate. As a woman, I would absolutely choose the 'temporary' feeling of fiery limbs as opposed to the lifetime of fear, shame and violation....oh, that's right. She didn't have a lifetime of agony ahead of her. He murdered her. Well, then in respect for the fact that he was kind enough to finish her off, and thus she was not forced to live out her days in a fog of his wrath and turmoil....let's strap his wasted ass on a memory-foam massaging chair from Brookstone, complete with heat and shiatsu stimulation. We'll have a little Vietnamese pedicurist named Trang apply lotion his feet, and we'll just feed him LSD and morphine until he slips away to Strawberry Fields. Forever.
