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(group member since Apr 14, 2009)
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from the Gig Harbor AP Language reads Dead Man Walking group.
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Also, there’s not much to say about being able to choose your poison. What’s the difference between hanging and electrocution? Both do not ensure a quick and painless death. The definition of hanging is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck."(Wikipedia). However, if ones neck does not snap on impact from hanging, they end up suffocating. Lethal injection is a series of three injections the first an anesthetic, then a saline flush to ensure the drug is introduced into the blood at a faster rate; and finally an injection of potassium chloride, stopping ones heart. The average time for lethal injection is 8.4 minutes. (scienceline). All methods of capital punishment are cruel and unusual punishment, especially since they are long, drawn out, painful process. I maintain that there is no such thing as a humane way of killing someone. Regardless of their past, they are still and always will be a living, breathing human-being.