Arizona execution lasts almost 2 hours

[Badger]

If capital punishment is not done with spite or malice then why do they consult the victim's family when deciding whether or not to seek it?

Because given the clusterf*** that is capital punishment in the United States, trying to obtain a death sentence without the blessing of the victim's family is pretty tough.  Even with it, it's not easy. (Not that getting it should be.)

As I've said before, while I support capital punishment in the abstract, I don't support the system we have in place in this country.  However, I also don't think trying to make it a worse system as the yahoos making it more difficult to conduct lethal injections are trying to do is going to erode support for capital punishment.

And most importantly, a victim (or their surviving family in a homicide case), should ALWAYS be at least consulted for input on sentencing options in a case. Note I emphasize "consulted" for "input", not given veto power or final authority on resolution.

FWIW, in the murder trial I had several weeks ago I met or spoke with the Victim's family nearly half a dozen times in the several months the case was pending, plus every day throughout the two week trial.

[Badger]

Except that only his lawyers are claiming he suffered.  Apparently all the other witnesses, both those from the victim's families as well as the neutral ones from the press that were present, indicated that he wasn't snorting, he was snoring.  Yeah, it's not good that the execution took longer than expected because death penalty opponents are willing to take steps they know will cause some unexpected results.  However, last night does not appear to have created another torturous death of the the variety some long to have happen because of their monomaniacal insistence that the end of capital punishment in this country justifies any means necessary.  However, despite how death penalty opponents will try to frame the narrative, the abnormality their actions helped precipitate last night in Arizona does not appear to have gone wrong badly enough to be considered "botched".

This is worth being re-posted since the reliable witnesses establish rather convincingly the execution was hardly "torture" or even "botched".

You know another way you could prevent this possibility? By stopping killing people in the name of so-called justice. But I suppose that's a radical concept.

Pass, thank you.