Sentence examples for a painless execution from inspiring English sources

A painless execution?

Those who think a "painless" execution is important have their priorities confused.

"Campbell is not entitled to a painless execution, but only to one free of purposeful cruelty," the judge wrote.

And indeed, when the options are a protracted, painful death or a swift and painless execution, the latter is preferred.

Singled out as a "horror" in the New York Times, "inhumane" by the White House, and a "science experiment" by the ACLU, the death of Clayton Lockett was anything but its intended goal of a quick and painless execution.

Advocating veganism does not preclude support for a more humane meat system any more than advocating abolishing the death penalty precludes support for better conditions or painless execution methods for death row inmates.

On April 29, convicted murderer Clayton Lockett was brought into the old Oklahoma execution chamber to die by lethal injection, which proponents say is a painless method of execution.

Two weeks ago, the court issued another 5-4 opinion to uphold a pending execution in Missouri and said the Constitution does not guarantee a "painless" death.

Maybe because, if we made executions painless, and switched from injecting inmates with Potassium Chloride to injecting them with a painless agent, the anti- capital punishment side would lose its argument of cruel and unusual punishment.

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He even wore a painless smile.