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I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
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Are organs viable after lethal injection or electric execution?
I think they should bring back the guillotine if they want to harvest donor organs from persons receiving the death penalty. I don't understand why we don't use it.
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Not after lethal injection. Not sure about execution, but I would assume they wouldn't work anymore after that.
The article is really, really interesting.
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I just read it now and it is very interesting. Thanks for the link.
olePigeon,
[The] execution procedure — sodium pentothal then pancuronium bromide then potassium chloride poured into the veins — rendered all organs useless. Some skin tissue could be saved. Maybe the heart valves. Then his body could be donated to a medical school.
The problem, I wrote, was that the state-administered death cocktail produced heart failure. If you were able to change the procedure (the law isn't specific about the precise drugs used) so that it induced brain death instead, the organs could be transplanted.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon 
I think they should bring back the guillotine if they want to harvest donor organs from persons receiving the death penalty. I don't understand why we don't use it.
Symbolic baggage.
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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey
Symbolic baggage.
We're not French. Also, it works 99.9% of the time and is very quick. It's as far from "cruel and unusual" as you can get when it comes to an execution.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
We're not French. Also, it works 99.9% of the time and is very quick. It's as far from "cruel and unusual" as you can get when it comes to an execution.
Still, the French Revolution made a significant impression in this country. And it's not like it's something we ever used in the first place. It's just that thing we associate with a horrible period in history, so I'm not surprised we aren't using it.
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