Sentences with phrase «with lethal injections»

Crawford openly called the gas chamber inhumane and called for replacing the practice with lethal injections.

The health bill would also implement a number of recommendations made by the inquiry into serial killer GP Harold Shipman, who killed more than 200 of his patients, many of them with lethal injections.

With lethal injections, it would be obvious that we are in the business of killing people.

My son might easily have been born that early; obviously, no decent person would condone killing such a baby with a lethal injection just before inducing labor.

Euthanasia is always done humanely with a lethal injection.

Not exact matches

«The use of the medicines in lethal injections runs counter to the manufacturers» mission to save and enhance patients» lives, and carries with it not only a public - health risk, but also reputational, fiscal and legal risks,» wrote the companies in a friend of the court filing.

Then, of course, there is also the distinction between an action done with the purpose of killing someone, like a lethal injection, and a decision to let nature take its course without using the extraordinary means of modern medicine that are available to forestall the inevitable.

If active euthanasia» e.g., lethal injection» and physician - assisted suicide are legally sanctioned, even more patients could couple organ donation with their planned deaths; we would not have to depend only upon persons attached to life support.

With respect to their attitudes, of the 319 doctors who responded, 89 \ % consider it ethical to withhold ANH from PVS patients; 65 \ % consider it ethical to transplant vital organs from PVS patients; and 20 \ % consider it ethical to administer lethal injections to hasten the death of such patients.

With lethal - injection euthanasia now legal throughout Canada, predictable efforts are under way to permit patients to create binding written orders to have themselves killed if they lose mental capacity.

They do not accept the idea, so popular with those who would remove food and fluid, that taking away a helpless person's food and water is morally superior to giving him a lethal injection.

In doing so, FDA deferred to law enforcement in the use of substances for lethal injection, which is consistent with the agency's long - standing policy.

There are plenty of arguments with which one may (and personally I think should) oppose capital punishment, but to oppose it by suggesting that lethal injection is as barbarous as gassing or electrocution is unwarranted.

Injections of the compound called PTK 0796 kept mice alive after they had been infected with otherwise lethal doses of Streptococcus pneumoniae, the inventors» of the drug report.

Now I train dogs not so much for the money but because a trained dog with an informed owner has less chance of ending up at the end of a lethal injection needle for being vicious.

While I realize that lethal injection incorrectly administered can be very painful, carbon monoxide is always painful even when administered with commercially produced equipment.

He held her paw, gazed into her eyes and then left so Kilty could spend some private moments with Sonja before a veterinarian arrived to give her a lethal injection.

But kennel worker Jacqueline Wadsworth, in an affidavit filed with the state attorney's office, said she saw two animal control officers pierce several dogs with a large knife after the dogs had been given a lethal injection but before they stopped breathing.

Convinced that lethal injection by sodium pentobarbital is more humane and less costly, Johnson worked with animal control officer, Denise Stinson, to win approval from the city council.

The city council agreed with Johnson that switching to lethal injection is «the right thing to do».

Sadly, that plight ended today with one dose of lethal injection on a dog who did absolutely nothing wrong.

For the next several decades, community animal control services would be assumed by humane groups, with the emphasis on improving shelter conditions and developing more «humane» methods of euthanasia, such as electric shock, gas and decompression chambers, and finally, lethal injection.

The AVMA's new direction is more in line with the National Animal Control Association (NACA) which in September 2010, issued the following policy statement: «NACA considers lethal injection of sodium pentobarbital, administered by competent, trained personnel, to be the only method of choice utilized for humane euthanasia of animal shelter dogs and cats.»

No one will ever know, but two days later, TDS lawyers for Carlton Turner, the next inmate scheduled for lethal injection, filed a motion for a stay on the same Baze issue with the CCA, which denied it by a vote of 5 - 4.

Orin Kerr points Volokh Conspiracy readers to an AP report on brand - new Justice Alito's decision to refuse to let Missouri execute a death - row inmate contesting lethal injection, siding with the appeals court and against Justices Roberts, Scalia and Thomas.

Hopefully, any of the balanced scholarly looks will (a) acknowledge that these lethal injection cases in federal courts should be dealt with swiftly, as the Supreme Court has said that when stays in capital cases are issued, the issues need to be resolved expeditiously, (b) acknowledge that some of the legal reasoning in some of the cases lacks, e.g., Fogel's constitutionalization of the wattage of a light bulb or Frost's use of cases where a party has engaged in sharp dealings to analyze Ohio's «fault» in filing an interlocutory appeal and (c) examine whether the burden of proof has been subtly shifted from the prisoner to the state in these cases.

Also, DPIC has kept this page updated with all the latest lethal injection developments.

As we enter 2007, lethal injection issues have resulted in moratoria on executions in the two states — California and Florida — with the largest death rows.

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference SCOTUS to review lethal injection protocols with Kentucky case:

Justice John Paul Stevens, who turns 88 next Sunday, writes in a concurrence that the Court's discussion of lethal injection has led him to conclude that «The time for a dispassionate, impartial comparison of the enormous costs that death penalty litigation imposes on society with the benefits that it produces has surely arrived.»

And if Texas can't or won't be able to go forward with executions, I will be surprised if any other states try to conduct a lethal injection until the Supreme Court eventually (in June?)

The problems American states are confronting in finding drugs to make lethal injections look kind and gentle lie in a growing global movement against capital punishment in which America is increasingly seen as part of an anti human rights «axis» along with Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia.

«Compared with the last term, which included historic cases concerning Guantánamo Bay, the Second Amendment and execution by lethal injection, the new term is a buffet without entrees,» writes Adam Liptak in the New York Times.