Two hour execution in USA

We're not pointing any missles at them, that's coercion, it's just a matter of making things difficult as a means of voicing our objections. We have no obligation to supply a thing to any other country, we choose to, so surely we have a right to choose what we supply?

And while the USA is executing people it is perfectly acceptable to coerce them into ending it.

I don't see why our objections to this are of any importance whatsoever. They've chosen to do this. They've gone through the legal hoops. Their population has chosen this as an appropriate punishment, their executive has agreed. If the guy didn't ant to be killed, he shouldn't have committed the crime. Zero sympathy from me on this one.

If they want to kill each other, they can source their own chemicals to do it, as far as I'm concerned.

So, you don't actually have an objection to the death sentence?

Forget about what he did, but how would YOU feel during those gasping moments? They were his last moments and would have been thinking when was he going to die, but it was prolonged. I think anything like that where you're in pain and slowly dying or being buried alive, is a form of torture and isn't acceptable

Blame all those do-gooder anti death penalty people for this. A bullet to the head would be instant, but no they rather disallow such methods and force more "humane" methods such as lethal injections that have a higher chance of going wrong. Making those drugs difficult to get hold of makes the situation worse.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28460647

I mean seriously?

How can it take 2 hours to execute someone? A few minutes high dose of helium would do it or a massive dose of opiates.

I hear the family arguing that they went through hell so who cares.

I would say if society chooses to use that as a bar and partake in barbaric and torturous practises like this, it is questionable if society is any better.

Of course I do, it's barbaric. However, I respect their right to self-determination also. I think we have a right to influence the politics of other countries by doing our best to bring the issue to the attention of the average citizen - for instance, by banning the export of chemicals.

Maybe people shouldn't be forcing them to use inferior drugs then?

Why?

Because we consider executing people to be wrong.

So? They overwhelmingly don't.