The Last Time I Was Under Anesthesia, I Counted Backwards from 100. At 97 I was Out...

There was no pain, I was just asleep. A bit more anesthesia and I would have been asleep forever.

The pain argument is just phony and bogus.
If I had my way, I would let the surviving family and friends have at it and kill, or have these low life murderers killed, in any way they wished. m/r

Don’t Kill the Death Penalty in California

Debra J. Saunders  August 28, 2016

Those who have made it unworkable intend to keep it that way.

Gas Chamber in San Quentin, Calif.

Opponents of California’s death penalty have been highly successful at thwarting executions since the state resumed executions in 1992 after a 20-year hiatus. Their latest ploy is Proposition 62, which would repeal the death penalty and resentence death row inmates to life without parole. Measure sponsors argue that capital punishment presents the risk of executing an innocent person, but also state that California’s death penalty is “simply unworkable.”

That’s a cheeky stand, coming from the corner that has been throwing monkey wrenches into the criminal justice system to subvert death penalty law. Over the years, appellate attorneys have introduced endless time-sucking, frivolous appeals that have jammed the courts, largely on technical grounds that have nothing to do with guilt or innocence, e.g., the trial lawyer wasn’t top-drawer; the defendant’s parents were abusive; lethal injection may not be painless.
In 2006, lawyers argued that convicted torturer-murderer Michael Morales might feel pain in his last moments because of the state’s three-drug lethal injection protocol. A federal judge granted their appeal and effectively froze the capital punishment pipeline for a decade. ...

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