Arkansas lawmaker whose daughter was murdered sees end to long waits in executions

[TomSea]

Arkansas lawmaker whose daughter was murdered sees end to long waits in executions

 By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Wednesday, April 12, 2017

The Arkansas plan to execute multiple murderers over 11 days before a lethal injection drug expires has been condemned as a reckless rush to judgment, but that’s not how Rebecca Petty sees it.

The Republican state legislator has been waiting 17 years for Arkansas to put to death the man who murdered her 12-year-old daughter. Even though he has been on death row since 2000, he isn’t one of the seven men scheduled to die by lethal injection from April 17-27.

“There are all these victims’ families out there who have been — I don’t want to say ‘waiting,’ but who have had this hanging over their heads for the last two decades,” said Ms. Petty. “That’s how I look at it.”

Her daughter Andria Nichole Brewer was raped and strangled by an uncle by marriage in May 1999, her body found after a three-day search in the woods near her father’s home in rural Arkansas.

Continued: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/12/rebecca-petty-arkansas-lawmaker-whose-daughter-was/

[Emjay]

This is the best reason for abolishing the death penalty.  I would be for it if we could station someone at the door of the courtroom who would do a lethal injection as the convicted felon left the room.

As it stands now, it is costly, infuriating and ineffective.

[Taxcontrol]

Nitrogen Asphyxiation - causes rapid and painless onset of unconsciousness.  It is so rapid and unnoticeable that there is a specific warning for high nitrogen environments in the safety sheets

Strap the condemned down,
Put on a brainwave monitor
put on a medical breathing mask
hook up to a 99% nitrogen gas supply
flow nitrogen at 1.1 atmospheres
Wait till the brainwave monitor has shown zero activity for 5 min

[Emjay]

Nitrogen Asphyxiation - causes rapid and painless onset of unconsciousness.  It is so rapid and unnoticeable that there is a specific warning for high nitrogen environments in the safety sheets

Strap the condemned down,
Put on a brainwave monitor
put on a medical breathing mask
hook up to a 99% nitrogen gas supply
flow nitrogen at 1.1 atmospheres
Wait till the brainwave monitor has shown zero activity for 5 min

Sounds easy..... ain't easy.

[Rivergirl]

Oh, it's too much trouble so let's abandon the death penalty??????????????

[Fishrrman]

"As it stands now, it is costly, infuriating and ineffective."

Seems quite "effective" to me.
Good on Arkansas.