4/15/08
The American Veterinary Medical Association has condemned the use of
two of the drugs in animals that they Supreme Court approved for use
in humans. The drugs it condemns are the paralyzing drugs that
prevent the patent from indicating whether the anesthesia is
working. Instead, the AVMA has worked to ban the
good-for-humane-only curariform drugs as inhumane for animals in favor
of an anesthesia-only process of authanizing Animals. It has even
put its objection to the paralyzing agents in the Euthanasia Training
Manual. So while John Roberts, John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia,
Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Steven Bryer, and Samuel
Alito all voted that drugs too inhumane for dogs are OK for use in
killing humans. Though placing humans below dogs in his vote to
side with the majority, John Paul Stevens did question the validity of
the death penalty.
California's current ban is not affected by the decision as
California's ban involves the inability to find an anesthesiologist
willing to supervise the procedure. Doctors feel assisting in any
way with executions of humans violates their Hippocratic oath.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is working to build a new death chamber that he
claims will not require an anesthesiologist. It seems unlikely
that a new set up with the same drugs would prevent problems like
the 40 minute execution of Tookie Williams that resulted in the courts
requiring an anesthesiologist.
All nations in the Western Hemisphere stopped using the death penalty
long ago. In most industrialized societies it is considered
immoral and barbaric. Cuba, the last holdout besides the United
States has not executed anyone in over half a decade.
This year, opponents of the death penalty tried to get abolition into
the platform. A resolution amounting to a call for abolition was
adopted by the Democratic Party in 2004. However, Nancy Pelosi's
daughter prevented the platform committee from allowing it into the
2008 platform - although it had been part of prior platforms.
Pelosi's reason for opposing the inclusion of abolition of the death
penalty into the California Democratic Platform was that Diane
Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi all support the death
penalty. It is no surprise to Democratic delegates that Democrats
are angry at a party that has become identical in philosophy with the
Republican Party. Many delegates to the California Democratic
Convention vowed to assist Cindy Sheehan defeat Nancy Pelosi in
November. Their goal is to get out the word that Democrats don't
want Pelosi running their party with an iron hand any more.
During the Chairman's reception, delegates were close to rude towards
Nancy Pelosi,showing more concern about the fact that food ran out
quickly than about what Pelosi had to say.
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