Why do they bother to sterilize the needle for a lethal injection?
95823
don't want the person to get an infection and get sick do you?  (I mean incase the execution is called off for some reason.)\n\nI wonder why we have to be kind about executions in the first place.  The condemned cry "Cruel and Unusual". . .why cried "cruel and unusual" for the victims they killed?
222465
Should a Stay of Execution come after the needle is inserted but before the execution it protects the medical personnel and prison from being sued over an infection that may have been caused from a non sterilized needle.
496659
I suppose that will be to throw someone to a really sick cesspool, and handcuffed with a dead body of someone who died of fetid skin cancer.\n\nThen, leave the patient to die.
530830
I don't think we need torture, I think we need to bring back 'rifles at dawn'. Execution sounds harsh, but the purpose of it is to collectively remove people from society who've decided to turn on innocents. I think that lethal injection is too soft, it's too much kindness shown toward people who've raped, murdered, etc. Laws don't mean anything without some kind of tangible negative consequence for the lawbreakers.  Torture's kind of pointless, a way for sick cops to get their jollies...
362114
They should be tortured.....when they castrate them they should do it without giving them pain medication. I don't think it's fair when people get the death penalty all that they "suffer" is a little injection by a lethal shot! When they die they have no worries and then we get to pay for it with our tax dollars!! The person/family they commited the crime against usually is tortured and suffereing for the rest of their lives! It should be "eye for eye tooth for tooth"
1053173
Well, an insulin needle is no different than the needles used by nurses to give kids their tetanus shots. It is specifically known as a hypodermic needle. \n\nGo to this link for an explanation!http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msyringe.html\n\nIn case you cannot reach this link, here is the text:\n\n"The key to syringe making is forming the hollow tube, or cannula. Processes to make small tubes and hollow needles are quite old, and almost always begin by forming a large tube. This large tube is formed by either rolling a sheet of metal into a tube and welding the seam, or by taking a solid billet of metal and boring a hole through the center while the metal is heated (creating "seamless tubing").\n\nThis large tube is softened by heating it (called annealing), then drawn through a tool called a die--which in this application of the word is essentially a hardened piece of metal with a small hole. As the tube is drawn through the die it both stretches, increasing the tube length, and shrinks, decreasing the tube diameter. The tube is passed through smaller and smaller dies, continuing to stretch in length and shrink in diameter, until the desired size is reached. The last drawing through the die is often done without heat, therefore cold-working the tube to increase its strength and hardness. Sometimes a stiff piece of wire or a mandrel is placed inside the tube to prevent the walls from collapsing while it is being drawn, but often the process relies on incredibly consistent steel quality and high-tolerance equipment to manufacture cannulae that meet the specifications.\n\nBecton Dickinson, one of the largest manufacturers of syringes in the world, says it makes syringes using 3/4-inch-wide stainless steel rolled and welded into a 1/4-inch diameter tube, then heated, drawn, and finally cold-drawn to its final size. Some of those sizes are pretty small. \n\nThe tubes are straightened, cut to the proper length, cleaned, and then the tip or bevel is cut onto the end. The piercing end of the bevel, right on the very tip, is called the lancet or as I like to call it, the "&$#%@*"! Many different styles of lancet can be cut; which one is selected depends upon the application--to be blunt (no pun intended), what portion of your body it's designed to poke holes into. Contrary to popular belief, sharper is not always better--medical professionals rely on the slight resistance of the needle through the skin to ensure that it penetrates to the correct depth and doesn't go bouncing off a bone, into your brain, etc.\n\nAs to your last question, the simple answer is that the "stuff" is able to get through because it is small enough to get through. Needles certainly must be matched to the application--try pushing honey through a 32-gauge needle, and you're going to need a lot of force if you can do it at all. This is one of several reasons why most injectable drugs have a recommended needle and syringe size or size range."\n\nI hope this helps!
466780
I still think that a firing squad is the most humane.  It's quick, almost instantaneous, and none of the men on the squad knows who shot a real bullet or who shot a blank.  In lethal injection, the condemned convulse (just like in electrocution).  Beheading might be more accurate (the firing squad could all miss) but seems to be more of a show for the public (see French Revolution or Saudia Arabia) as a deterent.  Hanging is even less accurate (see Thrice Hung John of English lore).  I must admit though, I'm against capital punishment because of economic reasons.  The extra costs of court appeals, lethal injections (or electrocutions) upon taxpayers is much more than most people realize.
187601
Though injections are vital for preventing and treating diseases, they are almost universally disliked by children and adults. The fear of injections, however, may soon be a thing of the past. In July 2005, a painless needle went on sale to hospitals and other medical facilities. The instrument was jointly developed by two Tokyo-based companies - Terumo Corporation, a medical equipment manufacturer, and Okano Industrial Corp., a firm with an international reputation for its metal-pressing technology - with the goal of reducing the pain of shots.\n\n Okano Masayuki, is known as a world-class craftsman and has been called a "metalwork magician."
491338
Not only because it thins the blood, but because some people will get themselves "numbed" up before the tattoo to decrease the pain--and end up throwing up.  The tattooists would really not like to have you be doing that while you are in there.
225639
If you are talking about lethal injection, what you are saying is totally ridiculous. The poisons in the IV bag will do that quick enough.
812466
its for killing some one >......................
280487
The idea behind fractional sterilization --- in which you heat, cool, then heat again to sterilize a container --- is to catch resistant microorgranisms and spores that survive the first heating.\n\nCertain microorganisms and spores are actually activated by the first round of heating, so if you serially heat, and then cool, it gives the resistant "bugs" a chance to germinate. Once they're "out in the open," you can kill 'em off with a second or third round of heating.\n\nThis site below doesn't completely explain the difference, but it does go through a lot of the general ideas behind sterilizing instruments and other things in a hospital setting.\n\nTake a look...
626692
Yes it is awful. Death takes from seven to 45 minutes, and the anasthetic can wear off long before that. OUCH.\nThe feelings are conscious suffocation, intense burning, cramping. The pain is so bad it is illegal to use this procedure for euthanising animals.\nI am not saying they deserve or don't deserve the pain...just that the whole point was it is supposed to be the most humane.If it was me, I'll take a firing squad any day.Oh BTW, they used sterilized needles in the case of governor reprieve. It happened once that a guy got a reprieve after the first injection.
1084712
It's usually transmitted that way right after someone has used it, not like days later. Usually someone uses it and within minutes someone else uses that same needle and syringe and gets HIV that way. \n\nI work in a hospital pharmacy and ever now and then we will get nurses who come down to get medicine because they got a needle stick by a possible HIV+ patient. Usually the nurse is drawing blood and when she/he goes to put the cap on the needle they accidentally stick themselves. Since they just drew the blood it's possible they might have contracted HIV from that tiny stick.
621630
I don't know officially why.  But, my guess would be that if they did not sterilize it, some lawyer would convince a judge it was cruel and unusual punishment.  Or, maybe it is because it is good medical practice.  And if you did not sterilize it for the lethal injection, you may forget to sterilize a needle when giving a different type of injection to someone.
1007798
Because killing people who can't fight back is best done by medical doctors to make it all seem clinical. Hanging or shooting is too obvious.
1024235
It's just a question of the Hippocratic oath.  "First Do No Wrong"  Would you want to be stuck with a dirty needle at any time?  I hope you never have to find out.  Dying this way is very sad and not something to make fun of.