Sentences with phrase «more lethal injections»

That's a problem for places like Texas, which only has enough drugs for two more lethal injections (both of which are on the table for next week.)

Not exact matches

«Show me the difference,» McKenna imagines Singer saying, «between an eight - and - a-half month fetus and a baby — show me the difference between abortion and infanticide — show me the difference between the reasoning powers of a smart dog and a senile old lady — show me why it's more humane to starve her to death than to give her a lethal injection!»

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.

More than 3,700 men and women now reside on America's 39 — one federal and 38 state — death rows; 717 individuals have been executed by lethal injection, electrocution, poison gas, hanging and firing squad since Gary Gilmore's death in 1977, and the 85 individuals put to death last year ranked the United States third in the world, behind China and Saudi Arabia.

Lawmakers in Missippi are proposing alternative executions methods to lethal injection, but not what you might call «more humane» methods.

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.

The scientists analyzed only 41 of the 891 lethal injections that have taken place in the U.S. to date (and considerably more worldwide).

Regardless of whether Landrigan's legal team was simply using the drug shortage as stalling tactic, their legal maneuvering brings to the fore a contentious dispute over the science (or some would say lack thereof) behind lethal injection executions in the U.S.. For more than two decades, it has been argued that the FDA should be required to certify the safety and effectiveness of drugs used to carry out executions (as it does for drugs used to euthanize animals).

The county's gas chamber is controversial among animal advocates, and Thorp said county shelter workers hope the outdated chamber - which subjects animals to a torturous and traumatic 30 seconds before they die - will be replaced by the more humane lethal injection.

Reps. Gene Maddox and Sean Jerguson spoke most vehemently in opposition to the bill, claiming, contrary to cost studies, that lethal injection will be more costly.

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 issue of concern to those organizations was to advance lethal injection as a more humane method of killing than the decompression chambers still widely used.

The staff and resources to make the switch to the more humane, cost effective lethal injection are there; the commissioners need only vote yes to make it happen.

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.

In general, euthanasia should be carried out by a vet through lethal injection or, more rarely, overdose of gaseous anaesthetic.

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.»

Who knows what Judge Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals was thinking when she wouldn't keep the court house doors open for twenty more minutes to accept a filing by a death row inmate's (Michael Richard) attorneys, seeking a stay of execution based on an decision earlier that day by the Supreme Court to review a challenge to the constitutionality of lethal injection.

In recent years, executions have become even more difficult to carry out because drug companies have protested the use of their products in lethal injections.

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