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[MrPressStart]

Let me start off by saying that I am not necessarily in favor of this ... but reading another thread got me thinking about the possibility of testing certain drugs on death row inmates to help push the limits of technology and medical science.

I can thank of a few reasons not to... such as we can get similar results from certain animals, or it could possibly cause suffering to the patient if things don't go as planned....

Thoughts? OR.... is this already being done in some places????

 

[Malyse]

NO!
Jesus Christ.

 

[David Incorporated Esq.]

No, what the fuck. The death penalty should be eliminated, not made more grotesque.

 

[yongeandcollege]

No. Check yourself OP.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Let's experiment on invalids and people in comas too while we are at it.

 

[Beartruck]

Not to pull that card, but you know who did experiment on prisoners? The Nazis. No we should not do that.

 

[TheCochese]

It's no more okay to experiment on prisoners than it was to experiment on black men in Alabama.

 

[StWilson85]

Sure why not!
Let's rope in all the other undesirables as well, immigrants, unemployed, uneducated, it's a never ending well

Spoiler

what a fucking terrible idea.

 

[Frankfurter]

Wow

 

[Pai Pai Master]

What the fuck

Where are your morals?

 

[Bony Manifesto]

You mean forcibly performing medical experiments on death row inmates? Or giving them the option of a stay of execution for as long as they remain a useful test subject? I'm not sure which is more distasteful...

 

[Bits N Pieces]

Turn the jails into camps or something? I mean what the actual fuck, OP?!

 

[WedgeX]

What the fuck? No.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

No modern ethics board would do this.

 

[HStallion]

Holy fucking shit no! NO! This is venturing in Nazi death camp experiments. No thank you.

 

[Geist-]

Considering the significant likelihood that a death row inmate isn't guilty is greater than zero, fuck no, and even if they were all 100% guilty, still fuck no.

 

[BareKnuckle]

I swear theres like 10000 pieces of fiction that start like this

 

[Malyse]

It's no more okay to experiment on prisoners than it was to experiment on black men in Alabama.

*points out who's in the prisons*

 

[daviyoung]

we've seen the effects of this in the documentary Batman and Robin

it didn't end well

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

What the fuck is wrong with you?

 

[Platy]

ONLY if you give them a choice : cake experiments or death

 

[Indrid Cold1]

No, because one of them might get super powers.

 

[Ivan A Nguyen]

We have an amendment specifically prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment (The 8th one).

 

[Bounceounce]

Yah, we can just do what Unit 731 did, great idea OP.

What the fuck dude?

 

[Inferno313]

What the fuck, no.

The death penalty is already an inhumane practice. This is just piling onto that.

 

[Breads]

Mengele would approve of it I'm sure.

 

[Nugg]

what
the
fuck

 

[Eggbok]

What the fuck is wrong with you?

.

 

[Flux]

The answer is NO. Look up the Declaration of Helsinki and the Tuskegee Study. Basically WW2 had some horrible human experimentation and that led to an ethics standard that prevents that sort of treatment. It's strange to think its not that old, but it a basic human right not to be experimented on.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Look at Mengele over here

 

[____]

What the fuck is this mentality of inmates not being considered human? Have you had family members or friends with family in prison before?

 

[E92 M3]

Is that you, Josef?

 

[AntChum]

Look at Mengele over here

Ran off to Brazil and joined GAF

 

[righthandmouse]

If they have the choice I see no problem with this. If I was on death row I would be a lab rat.

 

[Jobbs]

Is this a real question?

We have an amendment specifically prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment (The 8th one).

I'm not sure what the peaceful and humane way to murder someone is, but our prisons are already frequently in clear violation of this

Leth inject can be a horrifying process

 

[Platy]

Ran off to Brazil and joined GAF

He does look like someone who owns a Vita

 

[TheOohChild]

I would be down for a super soldier program

 

[Woffls]

"When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal."

Also there probably wouldn't be enough test cases to prove anything conclusively.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Fuck no. We have to draw a line somewhere, even if we're to put them to death doesn't mean they should be treated like animals, no matter what kind of person they are.

 

[Doc_Drop]

Let me start off by saying that I am not necessarily in favor of this ... but reading another thread got me thinking about the possibility of testing certain drugs on death row inmates to help push the limits of technology and medical science.

I can thank of a few reasons not to... such as we can get similar results from certain animals, or it could possibly cause suffering to the patient if things don't go as planned....

Thoughts? OR.... is this already being done in some places????

Fucking hell. No

There shouldn't even be death row or capital punishment

 

[Corronchilejano]

Let's entertain the possibility, allright?

1. We already know innocents end up in death row all the time (some never even make it out again), so we might be experimenting on innocents.
2. Since blacks are absurdly more likely to end up in death row, we'd just need to add up another chip into the pile of fucked up things black people have to stand in the US.
3. After for profit prisions made their appearance we saw a surge in incarceration in the US. What do you think is going to happen with this once farmaceutical companies start getting experimental?

 

[triplestation]

we've seen the effects of this in the documentary Batman Forever

it didn't end well

F-FOR YOU

 

[TheBlackMarvel]

What kind of monster would consider doing this?

 

[Malyse]

I would be down for a super soldier program

They tested the super soldier serum on black men and most of them died horrible deaths.

 

[Cymbal Head]

Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.

 

[Ron Mexico]

The 8th Amendment? Anyone?

And I say this as someone who was pro-capital punishment for the bulk of my early years-- as it is right now, the death penalty (particularly lethal injection) itself is going to face more legal challenges. This would be laughed out of the room.

 

[RinsFury]

NO! It's disgusting that you'd even consider this. What an evil concept.

 

[TheLaughingStock]

No.

 

[Generalpsyduck]

That's very nazi esque so no.

 

[Kinitari]

Death row shouldn't be a thing. This cold, senseless idea that those who do wrong, even terrible things, are irredeemable is not true. What's worse is the idea that these people should not have the -chance- to redeem themselves.

There should not be a death row, there should not be a life imprisonment. There should just be 'is it safe to let this person back out into the world?' and 'how can we help this person become better?'