Two things I took away from this movie

There's nothing humane about slowly suffocating as the respiratory shuts down after the rest of the body is paralyzed by drugs and the victim is able to react. The anesthetic given is *supposed* to prevent the person from suffering, but there's no checking to make sure it's taken affect or monitoring to make sure it's still in affect. At one person, John Gacy died horribly due this over site.

1) I guess death occurs after unconsciousness, but no, it's not like anesthetic where you count backwards from 100 and by 90 you're out. It is reportedly painful, to some extent, and takes anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes to kill the person. The body can be alive and twitching for some period of time, and I recently heard an executed person (in the last 2 weeks) say, after the injection, that his arm felt like it was on fire. I'm sure it's more humane than the way the executee killed his victims, but it's not as humane as anesthetic.

2) I agree. It doesn't work for me, when the person is only sorry AFTER being caught and is trying to get out of his situation or get some sympathy or solace. In this case, however, he did seem concerned about getting absolution, in case there's a heaven.

Violence is a choice, unless it's in self-defense. One person has no right to take someone else's life away, and worse, to make them suffer. I like the line in the movie Forgiven: "It's a helluva thing to kill someone. You take away everything he has, and everything he's ever gonna have."

I heard one person on tv say once (in a documentary about killers or serial killers) that we have to face the fact that some people are just evil. There's no particular cause. They're just evil, and there's no way to fix that. I agree with that. It does seem that some people are just downright evil. They really can't be allowed to live among us, or even have the chance to do so.

1) I guess death occurs after unconsciousness, but no, it's not like anesthetic where you count backwards from 100 and by 90 you're out. It is reportedly painful, to some extent, and takes anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes to kill the person. The body can be alive and twitching for some period of time, and I recently heard an executed person (in the last 2 weeks) say, after the injection, that his arm felt like it was on fire. I'm sure it's more humane than the way the executee killed his victims, but it's not as humane as anesthetic.

2) I agree. It doesn't work for me, when the person is only sorry AFTER being caught and is trying to get out of his situation or get some sympathy or solace. In this case, however, he did seem concerned about getting absolution, in case there's a heaven.

Violence is a choice, unless it's in self-defense. One person has no right to take someone else's life away, and worse, to make them suffer. I like the line in the movie Forgiven: "It's a helluva thing to kill someone. You take away everything he has, and everything he's ever gonna have."

I heard one person on tv say once (in a documentary about killers or serial killers) that we have to face the fact that some people are just evil. There's no particular cause. They're just evil, and there's no way to fix that. I agree with that. It does seem that some people are just downright evil. They really can't be allowed to live among us, or even have the chance to do so.

I discovered that no amount of tall hair can take away from Sean Penn's very amazingly blue eyes.

I came away from this movie with very little sympathy for Matthew. After what he'd done to his victims, it really didn't matter to me if he had a little discomfort being executed. I did have sympathy for his family, but again, Matthew put himself in the situation that was causing his family to suffer. If he did actually feel remorse then great, but I saw this more as ensuring that someone who demonstrated they were dangerous was never afforded the opportunity to behave that way again.

Now, the issue that does bother me with the DP is that it is unfairly enforced. If you are rich enough to be able to afford a good lawyer, you probably stand a good chance of avoiding it. Not to mention the potential for someone being wrongly convicted. I think those are much better arguments against the DP than the concern that a killer might suffer an owwie.