Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous line to carry out the lethal injection. Creech, 73, has been in prison half a century, convicted of five murders in three states and suspected of several more. Creech, one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the U.S., was wheeled into the execution chamber at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution on a gurney a
    • Cyborganism
      151·
      9 months ago

      How about we just don’t kill people at all? If it’s wrong for anyone else to kill someone, why would it be okay for the state to do it?

      • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
        62·
        9 months ago

        The state shouldn’t do it, but if they are, they should be made to do it dirty and feel the consequences. Making an execution clean and easy is just find encourage lawmakers to put more people to death.

        The governor should be forced to carry out the execution himself, give him incentive to pardon