SCOTUS has wrestled with this and stumbled
over functional fixedness.
The infamous "3 drug (IV) cocktail" is a
distraction.
They're fadidilling over whether the executee
feels a little pain (or whatever).
If the worry was pain, a 9mm round to the base of the skull should ease any concerns. One second the bad guy is alive, a cpl milliseconds later, he isnt.
But the problem with the death penalty now is the endless (seemingly) appeals process...and the people cleared of wrong doing by DNA.
Surely now, we can come up with a set of standards on which the guilty can be given a death sentence. DNA, multiple witnesses to the crime, etc....that could forego the numerous appeals.
For those who think the death penalty, in any form, is inhumane, I ask what you think an appropriate punishment is in this case......
"" A mother is under arrest after allegedly
allowing her boyfriend to rape her infant
child, causing the child to die.
Jessica Lynn Howell, 25, of St. Charles
County, Missouri, was arrested in connection
with the death of her four-month-old
daughter, Ashlynn Lilith Peters. Ashlynn died
December 3, 2012.
Originally Howell was not charged as she
claimed innocence in the attack, but
prosecutors say text messages between
Howell and her boyfriend Jordan Lafayette
Prince are conclusive and damning.
Prince has been in custody awaiting trial for
the murder of Ashlynn Lilith Peters for several
months, and has a past history of sexual
abuse which Howell admits to knowing. In an
apparent attempt to spice up their
relationship, Howell offered to allow Prince
the opportunity to sexually molest her
daughter.
According to the local reporting of
fox2now.com St. Charles Prosecuting
Attorney Tim Lohmar said:
" In those text messages
she suggested and
encouraged some
unspeakable things. It is
very, very disturbing."
While the text messages between the two
suspects have not been released, the official
police report tells a gruesome story about the
condition little Ashlynn was found:
" Ashlynn was sexually
assaulted causing
multiple tears to her anus,
a massive laceration to
her rectum with massive
hematoma in the area of
the pelvis. The injuries to
the anus and rectum of
Ashlynn were sufficient to
eventually cause her
death even without
strangulation."
Beyond the rape that caused Ashlynn to stop
breathing, she was also beaten:
" Ashlynn was also the
victim of blunt force
trauma to the left side of
her head causing a
laceration to her ear and
a hemorrhage near her
skull."
http://www.examiner.com/article/infant-dies-after-being-raped-mother-encouraged-the-attack-and-watched
