when it goes well lethal injection can be painful. you still see the fighting to breathe. he said using a firing squad as a backup more humane. a lot of these people are here for the gun. unlike the current scramble for gray market drugs, at least guns are reliable. so is beheading, saudi arabia s method of choice. and hanging, how iran executes its prisoners. they may be brutal but at least they re honest. maybe there is no humane way to put someone to death. joining me is the man who wants to bring back the firing squad, paul ray. representative ray what is the genesis of this? when did you have the idea to try to move this legislation forward? you know chris, i actually came up with the idea when i found out that utah no longer had the drug cocktail available.
place. there s no infrastructure to run a primary. if i ve learned one thing covering politics is that competition breeds excellence. i think there s time for a little bit of competition. former secretary of labor in the clinton administration feels the same way. i had a facebook page basically saying, do you want elizabeth warren to declare in the race? what s the thinking? hi, chris. i think it would help hillary clinton, assuming she runs because as you just said what we know from politics from prior presidential elections is that when you have a strong primary challenger, it helps the actual general election challenger nominee, to be better to have a sharper message, to be asked questions, to practice questions. it helps the public understand what the central issues are. you know as of right now, hillary clinton is the only target for republicans. if there were a primary challenger, there would be other targets. for her to be a target for another year and a half or more
before the oklahoma issue happened. do you believe a firing squad is more humane to the inmate being executed than the drug cocktail? you know, i do. i mean, the premise of this, as the humane part of this, we don t have the drug cocktail, we have to do something, the humane thing to do is the firing squad because it is death within three to five seconds. why not just go to that, if you think that s superior? why not push the state to just go to a firing squad? we have a lethal injection. like i say, the will i don t think is to move it to the firing squad permanently. the will is to have a backup for the lethal injection. so that s exactly what we did. we decided we don t have the drug cocktail. so it s time to have a plan b if that s going to be the case. why the blanks in one of the guns? well, it just gives so no one really knows who fired.
commitments. this is a key point. let s talk about the current sort of lethal injection preferred method. much of that protocol has been engineered around the comfort and sensibilities of the people watching it as opposed to the inmate him or herself, in the case of the famous three drug cocktail, one of those drugs was to immobilize the person on the gurney so that they were not writing wriggling around and upsetting the witnesses. the whole process is about the sensibilities as we watch this happen. when we talk about a humane execution, or an execution that s not cruel, we can think about it from at least two perspectives. we can think about it from the perspective of the person being executed, and yes, there is a commitment to reducing the pain associated with execution, and the united states supreme court said there should be no more pain than is absolutely necessary. but on the other hand, we can think about the question of
sort of lethal injection preferred method. much of that protocol has been engineered around the comfort and sensibilities of the people watching it, as opposed to the inmate him or herself, in the case of the famous three drug cocktail, one of those drugs was to immobilize the person on the gurney so that they were not wriggling around and upsetting the witnesses. the whole process is about the sensibilities as we watch this happen. when we talk about a humane execution, or an execution that s not cruel, we can think about it from at least two perspectives. we can think about it from the perspective of the person being executed, and yes, there is a commitment to reducing the pain associated with execution, and the united states supreme court said there should be no more pain than is absolutely necessary. but on the other hand, we can think about the question of