This morning I listened, as I often do, to a round-up of news on the BBC world service. 15-20 minutes of the broadcast were devoted to the impending execution of convicted murderer Kenneth Smith by asphyxiating him with nitrogen gas. Cataloguing the practical difficulties and problems occupied much of the time.
Smith’s lawyers have denounced this as “cruel and unusual punishment”, a human rights group has declared that it could amount to torture or may result in Smith being reduced to a vegetative state. His “spiritual advisor”, “pastor, theologian, activist and writer” Rev. Dr Jeff Hood is worried that he himself could be exposed to a possible gas leak and be forced to meet his Maker before he is ready to do so.
Not only that, this is the state of Alabama’s second attempt to execute Smith. In the first go-around, the executioner couldn’t find a vein for the lethal injection; after a number of incisions the attempt was abandoned because the death warrant had expired.
Canada, in 2022, managed to kill 13,241 people as part of its Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID, if you prefer to use the innocuous sounding acronym). All the candidates were euthanised without mishap: no veins were misplaced, and no nitrogen gas escaped to accidentally dispatch innocent bystanders.
In Canada, we administer death sentences on an industrial scale, smoothly and efficiently, without fuss or accident.
I have one simple question: why is the State of Alabama unable to do for one person, what we in Canada manage for 13,241 people every year?
I am tempted to write to my MP to suggest a new export opportunity for Canada, one similar to the CANDU nuclear reactors we exported to Argentina, Romania, China and South Korea in the 1970s. We could sell it to the Americans and call it CanDeath.
Wow! This hits really hard, and so it should. What an inhumane country we now live in. I muse over the words of our illustrious Prime Minister from a few years ago: “What the world needs is more Canada.” Hmm.
You’re from St John’s Vancouver like I was too
The Federal Court’s January 23, 2024, Ruling vs. the Liberal Regime’s February 14, 2022, un-Constitutional Invocation of the Emergency Act vs. The Freedom Convoy demonstrates their Alice-in-Wonderland dynamics: First the Marxist/Cultural Marxist Ideology and then the desacralization of life at every stage now on par with The Third Reich’s Death Camps.
I have never understood why American states don’t simply execute by firing squad. They are never likely to run out of rifles or bullets.
And I have never understood why the states where death penalty is still are below the Bible Belt, so much for “Thou shalt not kill”
There is no prohibition of killing. The prohibition is of deliberate premeditated murder, with a technical term used both in the Hebrew and in the Greek NT translation of it.
How is a state execution not deliberate and premeditated? I’m sure an awful lot of planning is involved.
It’s certainly planned & premeditated, but it’s not murder, unless of course of the judicial type under a tyranny.
Now let’s talk about the murder for money of the unborn …
This is one of the most ridiculous posts I have seen in this blog, saying that “Canada, in 2022, managed to kill 13,241 people as part of its Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID, if you prefer to use the innocuous sounding acronym)” is as absurd as can get. Nobody in Canada is forced to go through MAID, it is a voluntary decision, Canada doesn´t kill anyone, allpatients make an informed decision and the act goes through an extensive process of approval by doctors, moreover, those who request MAID can change their mind anytime, even right before the procedure. The author is either completely ignorant about MAID in Canada or is simply, in bad faith, churning out a false information and lies
not accurate- yes the choice is with the recipient of suicide – but your government is offering it to children (soon to be without parental knowledge ) – depressed people- PTSD soldiers…..people like this can’t make proper informed decisions-it’s cheaper for Turdo to kill you rather than have to use $ on healing -and another interesting point….that if you’re suffering from a painful disease its faster to get MAID than to get to a Dr. to get into treatment . Rebel News is doing a documentary on Maid as we speak so keep an eye out for that.
Who’d strarted MAID & what & how were & do they think like?
And you keep churning out lies… MAID is not available to minors, and does not cover patients with mental diseases nor cognitive deficiencies, and your post would have a bit more of dignity if you did not resort to ad hominem attacks by childishly misspelling someone’s last name… unless you’re a six grader…be a a grown-up man, you can do better than that
No, the post is not “ridiculous”. The fact that MAiD is a “voluntary” decision (perhaps following a little arm-twisting by relatives) and that capital punishment is involuntary is irrelevant to the author’s point–which I think you’ve missed completely. The point is that, having made a premeditated decision to dispatch someone to the afterlife in both cases, the authorities-that-be find it remarkably easy to execute the decision (pardon the pun) in the case of MAiD and remarkably difficult, if not impossible, to execute the judgment in the case of capital punishment. The Canadian “medical” system has shown itself to be far more *willing* to deliver death to a patient than the State of Alabama to a convict on death row, while the State of Alabama wrings its hands and purports to be completely *incapable* of doing something that Canadians accomplish with ease–i.e., killing patients–not to put too fine a point to it.
“the religious right” is the Bloc Quebecois’ term for any opposition to an enhanced MAID (medical murder) for La Belle Province; requesting on behalf of the Provincial Government that the MAID Regime in Ottawa amend the Criminal Coder to include the mentally ill for their ‘compassion’. Pre-Trudeau Regime and Pre-Bloc, Quebec had been the inspiring home for Palliative Care in Canada.