After reading the "Florida Mulls Lethal-Injection Problems" article I was very disturbed. In my opinion, I don't see lethal injection to be right. The death penalty is just as bad as a murderer in my eyes. How is it justified that someone like Angel Diaz, for example, who was accused of shooting and killing a Miami topless club manager would have lethal injection forced upon him. To be murdered himself when that was the crime of which he was accused of committing and is being punished for. He is getting the same treatment, only the murderer(s) aren't being convicted because it is the law? I don't agree. Murder is murder in my eyes.
They state in the article "none of the materials went to the right place" when injected into Angel Diaz, and that "no medically trained professional was enlisted to administer the drugs." How is this possible or right? If they cannot find a medically trained and experienced professional willing to administer the drugs correctly, to make sure they are going to the right places, then maybe they shouldn't be carrying out these executions until they do. Then they go on to state "Diaz may very well have experienced terrible pain during his slow death. But since one of the three drugs used in his execution is a paralyzing agent, he had no way to communicate his suffering." Thinking about it, being shot is at least a fast blow and then you are gone. Diaz died in a slow and painful way. Yes, if he killed the club manager that is completely wrong, but it is just as wrong as what they did to him. If they are going to have execution as an acceptable and justified punishment then they should at least have the appropriate chemicals and medical professional to do the job right. It isn't right that Diaz died the way he did, and couldn't even cry out for help to tell them something was wrong.
In the article they also state, "The department's new procedures still do not require that a doctor oversee the execution process." Yet, they continue to...