If someone is sentence to death by a needle injection, why do we care if the needle is sterilized?
462418
so that when the certified the reason of death, they know it's not from something else. also, the dead body will not have unknown biological hazards.
85924
It would depend on how they are executed.\nMany states use lethan injecttion in which chemicals are injected into the person.  These chemicals, I believe, make the organs useless for transplant.  Electricution probably isnt too good either for the organs.\nHowever being shot would leave many of the vital organs instact (not the heart), in theory [they could miss].  There is only one [maybe two?] states that still use a firing sqaud however.
869499
There are several diseases one can get from doing what you did, not the least of which is AIDS or Hepatitis B or C, depending on how sterile the needle was and who used it for what. You need to see a doctor.
920509
The answers so far are nonsensical. It is nothing to do with the possibility of a reprieve, nor any concern over infection. \n\nThe needles used in executions of black people who have (or frequently, haven't) killed white people in the US are "one-time-only" sterile steel IV catheter needles which are purchased in "peel open" packets. They are taken out of the packet, used, and disposed of, exactly the same way they would be on a patient who survives the medical procedure involved, as opposed to otherwise, as is the case with lethal injections. The reason sterilised needles are used is simple: no medical supply house in the world sells unsterilised catheter needles. Why would they?
1185547
Good Damn Question.Because I wanna give someone a lethal injection with the best doctors in the world around to revive him.Once they bring him back to life and his vital signs are normal,I wanna kill his azz again!!!!!!!!! Ya feel me??
207618
Yes, we should.  It costs a lot more of our hard earned tax dollars to keep a person alive in prison by feeding and clothing him than by executing him.  Prison life has gotten way too easy.  They get tv, computers, and education and all for a horrible crime.  By executing them, its a quick zap and they are no longer a burden to anyone.
874002
Guilty..\ni'm so sorry to say that.... but in the eyes of law, he is gulity..\nbut i will say that the motive is noble...\nThe motive is right, but the act is wrong..\n\nif the wife knows that she survived at the expense of other, how would she feel... and now the husband has to go to jail, and she remains poor..\n\non the other side.. somebody  husband just died because his medicine was stolen. and they had spent so much on it..it will then be unfair for the patient and his family..
731879
LAWYERS! That's why. If they used a dirty needle and the person died from anything other than the chemical injection, like an infection, then the gov't would get sued.  Basically it is in case anything goes wrong- that is why they are sterilized.
923735
When we inject drugs into people, they are in solution.  It's tough to get chunks of medicine through needles, and they would just cause an emboulus anyway.
928081
Lethal injection is used in almost all cases in the United States, it has the least charges against it of being inhumane.\n\nThere has recently been issue taken with lethal injection, however. A group of anesthesiologists refused to take part in one in California since they felt it may be a violation of the Hippocratic oath to not stop the procedure if the inmate appeared to be in pain.\n\nIn many states the procedure is actually performed by paramedics since doctors may be able to lose their license for taking part.
516696
well, i don't like to think that we have the right to take a human life.....on the other hand, my cousin was murdered and her assassin got 7 years.  He should have died.  After all he took her life.  Our prison system does not rehabilitate nor can it simply because the people inside are sociopaths.  so yeah, I'm for the death penalty and lethal injection is probably the least messy choice.
104794
I often thought the same thing like why not allow death row inmates to offer their services to the public by being used in medical experiments. The degree of severoity of the medical condition would have a direct bearing on the type of crime commited.
889068
In terminal cases completely for it! We guarantee prisoners the right "no cruel and unusual treatment", but we force our own society to suffer needlessly when the end is going to be the same no matter what? Makes no sense. Also, if a medical abortion is allowed later in pregnancy to keep a child from a life of suffering, why force our elderly? Makes no sense.
1089385
lethal injection - unfortunately
834157
Euthanasia is illegal in this country.  As far as prisoners having discomfort while receiving a lethal injection......I really don't care.  Sorry, but did they care while they were killing their victim?
1109506
If -- by "sterilized" -- you are referring to a woman having her tubes tied, it's a fairly minimal procedure.  I had mine done at a hospital as day-surgery.  I was off-work that one day, of course, but then went back to work the next day.  I don't recall feeling "puny" or anything.  None of my co-workers even knew that I had had it done.
35773
yes, the needle was an insult to the skin, so it will bruise\nif the bruise is really big it just means the nurse wasn't very good at adminstering the IV\nnothing to worry about at all