Why Conservatives Should Fight for Death Penalty Drug Transparency

Capital punishment fails the "conservative litmus test."

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"Conservatives believe in transparency in government," says Marc Hyden of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty. "And when they make things secret, like where they're buying these drugs, you have to ask yourself, 'What are they trying to hide?'"

In a conversation with Reason TV at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Hyden expressed his opposition to the increased state secrecy surrounding lethal injection drugs, and why capital punishment fails his "conservative litmus test," because "it's not pro-life, it's not fiscally responsible, and it sure is not limited government."

Last week, Reason TV reported on the new First Amendment challenges to the death penalty, which you can watch here. 

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Comments

[Almanian!]

I'm OK with the drugs being transparent, translucent or opaque. Having done a 180 on this subject as I get older, however, I'd just as soon none of them are used for the state to kill anyone. Cause the state gets it wrong sooooooo often, it just scares the hell out of me any more.

Bad enough people are getting wrongly jailed for 30 or more years - at least when it's turned around they get some of their life back.

But once they're dead - "oops" has no fix.

Fuck the state, fuck the death penalty, and....that's it for now.

[sarcasmic]

What drugs did Reason use to kill the horse that they keep beating?

[Charles Easterly]

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[OneOut]

I don't believe the states are fighting transparency here for the state's benefit so much as the drug companies are insisting on it as a condition of the sale.

The drug companies don't want the associated anti death penalty backlash.

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[ProLifeLibertarian]

I'm anti-death-penalty because I'm pro-life. I hope to see more conservatives come around to that way of thinking.

[ace_m82]

I'm pro-justice. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.

Many libertarians are often idiots when it comes to justice. They actually think that stealing is wrong, but that you can throw people in jail (paid by the taxpayers - those stolen from) when they murder because "killing is just immoral".

Yes, government is incompetent to carry out the justice system; and yes, I wouldn't trust them to pour 'water' out of a boot with instructions on the heel. But life is so important that a life must be paid for it, if taken purposely by another (not in self-defense, of course).

BTW, Rothbard agreed...

[ProLifeLibertarian]

Appeal to authority? Seriously?

Rothbard was also a bit of a racist and a classist, and his views on childcare were abhorrent.

[ace_m82]

I made my point then stated a fact. Argue with the point if you want.

Quid est aequitas?

[ace_m82]

Also, ad hominem...

[plusafdotcom]

I prefer Hayden's arguments against capital punishment to yours.
As he essentially puts it, what percentage Error are 'you' willing to tolerate in killing innocents in order to kill a few 'guilty ones'? 1%? .01%? Anything above Zero% makes a human a hypocrite or liar.

If the transparency BS he talked about made sense, the One Drug Of choice for Executions would be a gradual overdose of heroin or some other narcotic. Guaranteed unconsciousness followed by guaranteed death. Any other 'chemical cocktail' caters to the sadistic desire to know the 'criminal' has suffered before dying.

Such BS.

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[Intelligent Mr Toad]

Whatever you think of capital punishment, there is no question that lethal injection is one of the worst methods of carrying it out. It's slow, error-prone, sometimes technically demanding (if the victim has bad veins due to IV drug use) and sometimes excruciatingly painful.

The three most humane methods of killing are: electric chair, hanging (provided the victim is dropped from a sufficient height to insure he dies of cervical dislocation, not strangulation), and gas chamber using hydrogen cyanide. These are all painless, very fast, and extremely reliable.

The best is probably the electric chair because the electricity scrambles the brain, disallowing even a moment of pain at the moment of death.

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