NationStates Jolt Archive

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/16/allen.execution.ap/index.html

"His heart stopped in September, but doctors revived him and returned him to death row."

*eyeballs spin round* WHAAA..... Shouldn't Death Row Inmates automatically get a DNR(Do Not Rescusitate) status?

Well, I'd think that half the punishment is sitting in a max-security prison in virtual solitary confinement for a decade.

You would think so, but my guess is that this action is not peculiar to California. I'd imagine most states have similar policies.

I imagine that so long as there is a possibility that clemency or a pardon could be granted, the prison is obliged to keep people alive.

This begs the question in my mind

What if this person requested a DNR status ... do you think they would have respected that?

This begs the question in my mind

What if this person requested a DNR status ... do you think they would have respected that?

I don't think so, because as a prisoner you are deprived of a lot of rights, including the DNR right.

And also, the law says a person has to be executed, at a certain time and place and method. For the law, it's not, any death, any method, will suffice. It may seem strange, but it is NOT "only in California." People like to bite California's ass all the time. Bah.

i dunno but maybe if the court had given YOU 4 months to live you would want to live each and every day of it. (i would have rather gone right then but you might be different)

That's just as stupid as executing someone then doing an autopsy.
Or swabbing someone's arm with alcohol, to disinfect it, before giving them a lethal injection.

That's just as stupid as executing someone then doing an autopsy.
Or swabbing someone's arm with alcohol, to disinfect it, before giving them a lethal injection.
Gah! They swab the arm just incase there's an eleventh hour pardon or something... obviously...

Gah! They swab the arm just incase there's an eleventh hour pardon or something... obviously...
I always thought it was just cruel, bitter irony. Huh.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/16/allen.execution.ap/index.html

"His heart stopped in September, but doctors revived him and returned him to death row."

*eyeballs spin round* WHAAA..... Shouldn't Death Row Inmates automatically get a DNR(Do Not Rescusitate) status?
C'mon now, this isn't a 'only in California' thing, unless we revived him with an avocado. Otherwise this could easily be Texas or any other death penalty state.

Naah, what I found more unusual was the plea to have execution stayed because "he was too old and feeble"

You're never too old and feeble to get executed. Unless you're dead of course, but that's a whole different story.

Or swabbing someone's arm with alcohol, to disinfect it, before giving them a lethal injection.
That would be really ironic... At the last second "WAIT! HE'S NOT TO BE KILLED!" Two days later he keels over with an infection...

You're never too old and feeble to get executed. Unless you're dead of course, but that's a whole different story.
I think you made a good point there. I wonder why no one else thought of it.

He's dead now. *nod*

You would think so, but my guess is that this action is not peculiar to California. I'd imagine most states have similar policies.
only in america then

seeing how the rest of the developed world tends not to have a death penalty in the first place...

Meh.. this is nothing.. the LAPD got sued after the North Hollywood shootout, remember that one?

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/28/shootout.death/

At least the old guy had a right to live until his scheduled date..

That is by no means "only in California", every state with the death penalty will do the exact same thing.

I'm still laughing about this caveat, though (not bad, considering the topic): unless we revived him with an avocado.:D

I think perhaps the oddest part for this is the guy is diabetic and he wanted Pecan pie as part of his last meal and it was made sure that it was sugar free... uh...

... and the poor guy died on his birthday...

But the guy really was an idiot. He was charged for armed robbery and then killed his son's gf (a witness). Is then sent to jail for robbery anyway and then faces charges of murder. He then hires someone to kill a witness to his murder trial... or something like that. Just weird.

C'mon now, this isn't a 'only in California' thing, unless we revived him with an avocado. Otherwise this could easily be Texas or any other death penalty state.

Well, this certainly wasn't meant as an attack. It just never occurred to me before that anyone would actually revive a dead death-row inmate.

Seems nonsensical to me.

Seems nonsensical to me.

It is. But when the government wants to mete out judgement it doesn't suffer interference lightly, not even by nature (or would that be God?:eek:).