Casey Lampert- Lethal Injection

In Tallahassee, Florida a man will be put to death using a drug different from the ones they usually use in the three-part cocktail that ends in the guilty parties death. The controversy of this drug is that they aren't completely positive on how well/speedily it will work and whether or not it will be a painless death. They are using this man from death row, William Happ, as essentially a test dummy for the effectiveness of the drug in the execution process. The main issue is that the drug has the potential to cause a painful paralysis and fatal heart seizure over a few minutes which would violate the 8th amendment which says there's to be no cruel or unusual punishment.

I think that he deserves to be killed, he raped and murdered a woman, however, I think that the state needs to definitively know that this drug will do what it needs to do without the extra pain that would make it violate the eighth amendment. On the other hand, if this man consents to being killed with this drug, even with the potential of a more painful death, then I think that that's a viable way to see if the drug is effective. But that is only if he consents to it. At the end of the day, he's being executed regardless of what he's injected with so you may as well let him have the decision.

http://news.yahoo.com/florida-execute-man-using-untried-drug-lethal-injection-222437590.html