This is a good example of the stupidity of politics. Lobbyists of drug manufacures are getting in the way of a dozen other options for killing a person humanely and quickly.

I just put my dog down and asked the doc about the drug. He said he used a two injection process. First he injected a large dose of a drug to sedate the animals. When he injected our dog it was like giving him valium. He calmed down. His heart stopped beating illregular. Then after a few minutes of calmness he injected a large second dose and death occured in seconds.

I understand that some drug manufacures are refusing to sell the drugs if they are used in capital punishment, but they still all the drug to be used for animals.

        Assuming the perp's guilty status is unassailasble, there are still quicker and cheaper methods to implement a speedy and almost intantaneous death than these various chemical concoctions.  A bullet, properly fired into the medulla oblongata of the human brain, is virtually instant death.   Police marksmen and military snipers know this.  A single bullet is inexpensive, too.

  Do you mean using the inmates as a work force ?  I don't have a problem with that but it will still cost to take care of their physical needs.  Even the slaves of the old south had to be fed and clothed which must have cost their masters something.   Keeping them alive is also an ongoing expense.  Dead inmates no longer require care and hence they are not a financial expenditure.

The American system tends to have people on death row for 20+ years. So it really costs taxpayers millions of dollars per inmate to kill them. Might even cost more than life in prison, though I'm not interested in comparing numbers.
Whether it does or not, you're paying to take care of them until you kill them anyway. For decades in many cases. What's the difference?

                      Just when I'm ready to give up on A death penalty along comes some deviant who deserves the ultimate penalty. In Canada we had Clifford Olsen & Paul Bernardo in the US of A John Gacy & Ted Bundy.  How else can you punish such multiple killers?  The death penalty is NOT a deterrent, it is a punishment. So stick them on death row and let them watch the appeals and the clock tick down to the actual death chamber.   The longer the wait the more terrorizing it is for such cowards.  Bundy and Gacy waited 10 years before death,  others waited longer, let 'em wait, I want to be sure. Olsen died of natural causes,  Bernardo is still with us;  how is that Justice?            

  And speaking of Canada, I saw a news item from Calgary that infuriated me.  A two year old husky had its mouth taped shut and it slowly starved to death and a short time later a cat was found nearby with its head completely enveloped in tape so that it died of suffocation. 

  Animal cruelty is a crime that literally brings out the killer instinct inside me.  I would be absolutely Islamic in my style of punishment.  On first offense, both arms of the perpetrator would be surgically removed at the shoulder so that he / she could never again repeat their crime.  If somehow they were later caught doing anything even remotely related to animal cruelty then both their legs would be the next to be amputated in a hospital.  I could even step it up from there...

     I've never enjoyed hunting because I don't like to kill things or cause an animal to suffer.  I'm even trying to go back to being a vegetarian so that I'm not a complete hypocrite, but yes there is something about cruelty to animals that deeply depresses me and makes me want to respond in a way the would make the abusers shiver in absolute fear as to what I would do to them.  But I wouldn't allow them to die. 

   I better stop here or I'm going to start sounding like Pin Head from the Hell Raiser movies.  But no, it wouldn't be pretty what I had in store for them.

It's also very messy.

It's about money.

I have a friend who was offered 10 years by the state and he has a public defender. He basically threw up his hands and asked how soon could he get out if he was a model prisioner. He's looking at 2-3 years if things go well. Is he guilty of his crime? Yep. Does he deserve to be thrown in a jail cell for 2-3 years? No.

Recently a local politician got drunk and wrecked the car he was driving at 90mph in a 45 zone. He killed the person in the car with him. Jail time? Nope. Going to prision? Nope. What punishment did he get? A fine for exceeding the speed limit. Why? Because he is buddy buddy with some one special. Also, it got really quiet in the local papers/tv. No one is reporting on this so you know they paid all the local papers to bury the story.

Bundy was a psychopatic killer; he welcomed death.

The thing which would have really tormented him was if at his death, the viewing room was completely empty.

I toss around this stuff in my head all the time. What punishment fits the crime? How long? When are they truly remoseful? Can you let them back in to society?

      Phfft. Surgeons don't move their scapels at 850 m/s either, yet the patient still bleeds, sometimes copiously.   Besides my point was about what dispatches a prisoner quickly and relatively painlessly not whether it violates your desire to be fastidious.

  PS, do you avoid having bowel movements because that can be kind of messy, too ?

I can get them, but freedom of information requests tend to cost money. I'm sure plenty of second hand sources are available. Here's one:

Death penalty costs California more than $300m per execution

Unless I'm wildly mistaken, the prisons in which people on death row await sentence are completely separate entities from those in which convicts await release.
But unless a prisoner is a 'terrorist' or a legitimate and chronic threat to other prisoners and staff, serial killers and substance abusers do tend to be housed together. There are so many more convicts than prisons can hold that it isn't feasible to separate one type of convict from another unless it is absolutely necessary.

That's cool.