The other day, I had the fun of explaining the Castle Doctrine, stand-your-ground and Trayvon Martin’s murder to my 13-year-old. Just a couple of days ago, we talked about how the U.S. is, as far as I know, the only Western country to regularly use capital punishment and that even Anders Breivik wasn’t given the death penalty for what he did. We had to talk about how the American penal system is almost entirely punitive and not at all rehabilitative.
I fucking love having to explain how much this country sucks to my daughter on a regular basis.
I’m gonna let you in on a secret. Us Nordic countries may be better in some or even most aspects, but the same misrepresentation and dysfunction of govt systems exists here.
Not to the same scale, probably, but it’d be a disservice pretending it doesn’t.
I was denied my prescription medication while in jail.
I was up three days and wrote several hundred words in my own blood on the walls.
I didn’t get my prescribed medication. My water was cut off completely for several hours. I have a congenital kidney issue.
I tried making a thing out of it. No-one cares. No-one. People just pretend I made it up despite having photographic evidence.
It only makes sense for it to be volunteers. Telling someone they will lose their medical job if they don’t perform an execution would be dumb. I’m more interested in what states it isn’t administered by volunteers.
We don’t have it in my country so I know very little and didn’t know this, just popped up in my RSS reader today. I just can’t imagine who would want to.
I’d do it, if I had the expertise. My state loves killing people. They’re not going to stop unless the feds force them, and as a result we have increasingly horrific and unreliable methods of killing people.
If that person is to die, I think they at least deserve to be executed in the least inhumane way possible. And an RN with fish paralyzer or whatever the fuck we come up with this year isn’t that.