A Kinder, Gentler Execution?

Heh, looks like Florida and California aren't going to be executing any dirt-bag murdering pieces of human detritus anytime soon. Both states have put all pending executions on hold.

Florida quit snuffing scumbags because one of them took more than half an hour to die after they (obviously not so) lethally injected him. California's reason was that some dude on death row sued because being lethally injected might HUUUUUUUUUUUUURT.

The Future Fertilizer in question in California, one Michael Morales, raped and murdered a seventeen year old girl in 1981. Funny how he didn't seem too worried about causing someone else a painful death twenty-five years ago. But now he's all concerned about man's inhumanity to... him.

The Florida guy who took forever to die, Angel Niaves Dias, ended up on death row because he killed the owner of a titty bar during a robbery back in 1979. That means (Not An) Angel was amongst the quick for twenty-seven years after he bumped off a man who was providing a very valuable service of giving people naked ladies to look at.

(Did you notice? Hispanic surnames, both of them. You can bet I'm going to hide in the closet the next time some hispanic dude comes to the door asking if my people need any landscaping work done.)

So let's get down to the naked essentials of this issue. (Tee hee. I said naked.) There's no fool-proof guaran-goddamn-teed painless way to kill people. The state just does the best it can to do it right - to be as humane as possible.

And that's good enough for this moose.

Hell, we're giving these animals a great deal more consideration than they gave their victims. I'm sure those folks would have appreciated the fuck out of knowing the how, when, and why of their death, an additional quarter-century of life, a preacher there at the end, and a nice last meal.

But the victims didn't get that, and their killers do. So pardon me if I don't flail myself with grief about the fact that executions might not be as pleasant as a lovely day at the spa.