Tennessee fires officials after damning death penalty report

[C0RI0LANUS]

Source: BBC News

Tennessee fired two top officials after a report revealed numerous errors in the state's lethal injection system. Drugs used in Tennessee's lethal injections were not properly tested for contaminants.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64347169

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Per Amnesty Int'l: 56 countries retain death penalty laws and carry out executions.

Per World Atlas: 51 countries provide universal health care for its citizens.

Guess where the US is on both lists?

[napi21]

1. I don't mean to sosusnssd uncaring here, but wew'wrwe talking aqbout "letheal injectrion" !

Why the great concern about contamination? Are they afraid the drugs wown't work if they arent pure enough? SHEESH!!

[Duppers]

2. Indeed.

They're KILLING ppl, yet someone wants to haggle about contaminants?

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Relax. Over tbe years DP oppone ts have foind it's almost...

imposible to win when arguimg about the DP, but have a much better chance arguing about just how clean, efficient, or painful the common means of death are.

After years of expensive arguing, msny states have just given up on death

[paleotn]

5. Oh, they work just fine. It's an issue of "unnecessary agony" before death.

Such bullshit. Simple solution, abolish capital punishment and we never ever have to worry about causing a condemned person "unnecessary agony" ever again. And as an added bonus, we won't have the guilt of executing innocent people who were wrongly convicted.

[paleotn]

4. And those that retain are a rather nasty bunch....

Some real "winners." A stain on our country. Pathetic.

And fire those who tell the truth. Oh, that's real good, Tennessee. Doubly pathetic.

[Farmer-Rick]

6. It's not just contaminated deadly drugs it's doing it with untrained labor

It's failure to administer them as required by law and medical protocol. They hire unqualified people....because cheap untrained labor is the backbone of a capitalist prison system.

From the link in the post:

"A separate report from the Death Penalty Information Center found that more than one-third of executions in the US in 2022 were botched or highly problematic.

The report from the non-profit, which takes no position on capital punishment, said executions were visibly problematic because of incompetence, failures to follow protocol or defects in the protocols themselves".

From a link in the link:

'In four states - Idaho, Ohio, Tennessee and South Carolina - executions had to be put on hold after officials were not able to carry out execution protocols.
Michael Benza, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University who has represented death row inmates, told the BBC that the primary reason for execution failures was "using a medical model of executions, lethal injection, but not using medical people to carry it out".

"This means they often lack the training necessary to deal with problems," he said. "Also, because the people who get the death sentence often have poor medical histories, such as illness or drug use, there are technical problems with getting IVs started."

How many countries still have the death penalty?
"After 40 years, the states have proven themselves unable to carry out lethal injections without the risk that it will be botched," Mr Dunham said in a statement."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64003124