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peppctts · 2 years

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I saw you did some character notes for Moss, do you have any for your other boys? I’d love to read them ❤️

hey! moss is one of many boys (ill introduce my own lil platoon under my jedi girl once ive finished their sheet) but i can give u some intel on the snake boys while im at that :) ive got corporal moss, medic splint, privates newt and python.

thank u for the ask i am very 🥵

- corporal moss (CT-2726) i have already introduced in an earlier post !

- medic splint (CT-0262), named after an obvious splint for broken bones n stuff, is one of the newer boys in their ranks, he was close with newt, feather and python as cadets. he’s always been known to be quiet, kinda doesn’t show his emotions, which is handy as a medic, but it makes socialising awkward and hard between him and his brothers since they don’t really know what he’s feeling unless they practically force him to talk. he’s a little out there with his looks, but never was as a cadet. only started making changes when he and python both bleached their hair on a bet (python still does, splint’s just let his grow out and now it looks like a floppy mess). as a soldier, he’s good at following orders and doesn’t like to question. usually manages to hold off his emotions in favour of a mission being successful, doesn’t talk a lot and wants to put others before himself which,, leads to a lot of self-depreciating stuff, he doesn’t really look after himself as well as he should, etc. splint just needs a hug can we get a hug for this man??

- NEWT UGH my little man. very nice man all around. very good. sike he is a little shit. but he wants you to think he’s innocent. he’s technically “twins” with splint, but you’d think he was twins with feather with the way they act. people usually think feather’s the cause of all evil, but my god they are so wrong. it’s newt. the brunt of every single wrong thing. got put through reconditioning with feather and they’re inseparable since. anyway, private newt (or CT-8013) wasn’t always his name— he used to get called the very basic “patch” for his patchy spots around his face n chest, but soon ended up getting called newt as when he joined the 325th, they remarked his stupid dumb smile and his bug eyes looked like a newt. so that was that now everyone calls him damn newt. he’s a good lad at heart, pretty clueless and slow, likes to act oblivious sometimes so he doesn’t have to do work (relatable) but he’ll step up if he needs to. prefers to sit on the sidelines and avoid responsibility, though.

private python (CT-9147) is the last of my boys, close to cobra in both manners and such. he’s always been a rambunctious little twat, always looking for trouble and the like. one might say he was the initiator for most of feather and newt’s bad behaviour, but nobody really knows. he somehow managed to evade reconditioning and joined the 325th just a couple weeks before newt and feather with splint. one might say he was a nuisance and a bit of a dick, but they’re totally wrong— he’s just got a shell up. good leader of the rest of them could see it.

#pepsocs #pepsasks #pepsclones #syndulla’s fangs #the 325th

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jlhartman · 4 years

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winged-mammal · 7 years

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Remove President Bannon from the NSC

As you’re probably aware, when we were all yelling about the refugee/immigration/Muslim ban executive order, President Bannon had Lord Dampnut add himself to the National Security Council and remove the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Director of National Intelligence - a Very Bad Thing.

Yesterday, Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL-7) introduced a bill that will undo this shitty shitty move, by making it so people whose chief responsibility is political (eg, chief political strategists) can’t be on the principals committee of the NSC, and that at least either the JSC Chairman or the DNI has to be on it.

As of right now, the bill has 57 cosponsors in the House. You can check here to see if your representative is among them. If they’re not, call them up and ask them to support HR 804 (be sure to cite the bill number!).

The bill has been referred to three committees: Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Armed Services. (As of right now I have no idea which if any will be first to act on it, my understanding is that only one can at a time.)

You can contact the committees directly:

Intelligence (Democratic staff): 202-225-7690 Intelligence (Republican staff): 202-225-4121 Foreign Affairs: 202-225-5021 Armed Services: 202-225-4151

If your representative is on those committees, call them up and ask them to support HR 804 (asterisks are next to reps who are on more than one of these committees):

House Intelligence Committee: Devin Nunes, Chairman, (R-CA22) 202-225-2523 *Mike Conaway (R-TX11) 202-225-3605 Peter King (R-NY2) 202-225-7896 *Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ2) 202-225-6572 Tom Rooney (R-FL17) 202-225-5792 *Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL27) 202-225-3931 *Michael Turner (R-OH10) 202-225-6465 *Brad Wenstrup (R-OH2) 202-225-3164 Chris Stewart (R-UT2) 202-225-9730 Rick Crawford (R-AR1) 202-225-4076 Trey Gowdy (R-SC4) 202-225-6030 *Elise Stefanik (R-NY21) 202-225-4611 Will Hurd (R-TX23) 202-225-4511 Adam Schiff, Ranking Member (D-CA28) 202-225-4176 Jim Himes (D-CT4) 202-225-5541 Terri Sewell (D-AL7) 202-225-2665 Andre Carson (D-IN7) 202-225-4011 *Jackie Speier (D-CA14) 202-225-3531 Mike Quigley (D-IL5) 202-225-4061 Eric Swalwell (D-CA15) 202-225-5065 *Joaquin Castro (D-TX20) 202-225-3236 Denny Heck (D-WA10) 202-225-9740

Armed Services Committee: Mac Thornberry, Chairman (R-TX-13) 202-225-3706 Adam Smith, Ranking Member (D-WA-9) 202-225-8901 Ralph Abraham (R- LA-5) 202-225-8490 Pete Aguilar (D-CA-31) 202-225-3201 Don Bacon (R-NE-2) 202-225-4155 Jim Banks (R-IN-3) 202-225-4436 Rob Bishop (R-UT-1) 202-225-0453 Madeleine Bordallo (D- Guam) 202-225-1188 Robert Brady (D-PA-1) 202-225-4731 Jim Bridenstine (R-OK-1) 202-225-2211 *Mo Brooks (R-AL-5) 202-225-4801 Anthony Brown (D-MD-4) 202-225-8699 Bradley Byrne (R-AL-1) 202-225-4931 Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24) 202-225-3601 *Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20) 202-225-3236 Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) 202-225-2311 Mike Coffman (R-CO-6) 202-225-7882 *Michael Conaway (R-TX-11) 202-225-3605 *Paul Cook (R-CA-8) 202-225-5861 Jim Cooper (D-TN-5) 202-225-4311 Joe Courtney (D-CT-2) 202-225-2076 Susan Davis (D-CA-53) 202-225-2040 Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-4) 202-225-6831 Trent Franks (R-AZ-8) 202-225-4576 *Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI-2) 202-225-4906 Matt Gaetz (R-FL-1) 202-225-4136 Mike Gallagher (R-WI-8) 202-225-5665 Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-7) 202-225-4065 John Garamendi (D-CA-3) 202-225-1880 Sam Graves (R-MO-6) 202-225-7041 Colleen Hanabusa (D-HI-1) 202-225-2726 Vicky Hartzler (R-MO-4) 202-225-2876 Duncan Hunter (R-CA-50) 202-225-5672 Walter Jones Jr. (R-NC-3) 202-225-3415 Trent Kelly (R-MS-1) 202-225-4306 Ro Khanna (D-CA-17) 202-225-2631 Steve Knight (R-CA-25) 202-225-1956 Doug Lamborn (R-CO-5) 202-225-4422 James “Jim” Langevin (D-RI-2) 202-225-2735 Rick Larsen (D-WA-2) 202-225-2605 *Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ-2) 202-225-6572 Donald McEachin (D-VA-4) 202-225-6365 Martha McSally (R-AZ-2) 202-225-2542 Seth Moulton (D-MA-6) 202-225-8020 Stephanie Murphy (D-FL-7) 202-225-4035 Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1) 202-225-6501 Beto O'Rourke (D-TX-16) 202-225-4831 Scott Peters (D-CA-52) 202-225-0508 Mike Rogers (R-AL-3) 202-225-3261 Jacky Rosen (D-NV-3) 202-225-3252 Steve Russell (R-OK-5) 202-225-2132 Austin Scott (R-GA-8) 202-225-6531 Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH-1) 202-225-5456 Bill Shuster (R-PA-9) 202-225-2431 *Jackie Speier (D-CA-14) 202-225-3531 *Elise Stefanik (R-NY-21) 202-225-4611 Niki Tsongas (D-MA-3) 202-225-3411 *Michael Turner (R-OH-10) 202-225-6465 Marc Veasey (D-TX-33) 202-225-9897 *Brad Wenstrup (R-OH-2) 202-225-3164 *Joe Wilson (R-SC-2) 202-225-2452 Robert Wittman (R-VA-1) 202-225-4261

Foreign Affairs Committee: Edward “Ed” Royce, Chairman (R-CA-39) 202-225-4111 Eliot Engel, Ranking Member (D-NY-16) 202-225-2464 Karen Bass (D-CA-37) 202-225-7084 Ami Bera (D-CA-7) 202-225-5716 Brendan Boyle (D-PA-13) 202-225-6111 *Mo Brooks (R-AL-5) 202-225-4801 *Joaquin Castro (D-TX-20) 202-225-3236 Steve Chabot (R-OH-1) 202-225-2216 David Cicilline (D-RI-1) 202-225-4911 Gerald Connolly (D-VA-11) 202-225-1492 *Paul Cook (R-CA-8) 202-225-5861 Ron DeSantis (R-FL-6) 202-225-2706 Theodore Deutch (D-FL-22) 202-225-3001 Daniel Donovan Jr. (R-NY-11) 202-225-3371 Jeff Duncan (R-SC-3) 202-225-5301 Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13) 202-225-4365 Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-8) 202-225-4276 Lois Frankel (D-FL-21) 202-225-9890 *Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI-2) 202-225-4906 Thomas Garrett (R-VA-5) 202-225-4711 Darrell Issa (R-CA-49) 202-225-3906 William Keating (D-MA-9) 202-225-3111 Robin Kelly (D-IL-2) 202-225-0773 Adam Kinzinger (R-IL-16) 202-225-3635 Ted Lieu (D-CA-33) 202-225-3976 Tom Marino (R-PA-10) 202-225-3731 Brian Mast (R-FL-18) 202-225-3026 Michael McCaul (R-TX-10) 202-225-2401 Mark Meadows (R-NC-11) 202-225-6401 Gregory Meeks (D-NY-5) 202-225-3461 Scott Perry (R-PA-4) 202-225-5836 Ted Poe (R-TX-2) 202-225-6565 Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA-48) 202-225-2415 Francis Rooney (R-FL-19) 202-225-2536 *Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL-27) 202-225-3931 Bradley Schneider (D-IL-10) 202-225-4835 James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-WI-5) 202-225-5101 Brad Sherman (D-CA-30) 202-225-5911 Albio Sires (D-NJ-8) 202-225-7919 Christopher “Chris” Smith (R-NJ-4) 202-225-3765 Thomas Suozzi (D-NY-3) 202-225-3335 Dina Titus (D-NV-1) 202-225-5965 Norma Torres (D-CA-35) 202-225-6161 Ann Wagner (R-MO-2) 202-225-1621 Joe Wilson (R-SC-2) 202-225-2452 Ted Yoho (R-FL-3) 202-225-5744 Lee Zeldin (R-NY-1) 202-225-3826

(blah blah Lord Dampnut would just veto it, blah blah I don’t care do it anyway)

(originally posted 2-2-17)

#politics #lord dampnut #long post

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coffeewithmom · 5 years

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The Dark Side of Delivery: Maternal Mortality and Me...

Can you imagine if every 1st visit to the obstetrician they asked about your diet, your goals for your pregnancy, in at the end asked if you were prepared to die? Sounds crazy I know but the reality is that the happiest time in a woman's life also Carries the weight of being the last thing she does in the world.

Maternal mortality in this country has become a topic being discussed more and more in recent years and it's not because it's declining but just the opposite it is on the rise. According to the CDC had 7208 reported deaths of women from pregnancy related issues From 2011 to 2014 within a year of giving birth with 2726 of those deaths being found to be directly related to pregnancy. Even more alarming is the fact that black women lose their lives at a rate that is 4 times higher than white women with no documented reasons as to the cause of the discrepancy see between the races. With the technological advances available in the United States he would think that these numbers would be much lower but in fact the CDC sites cardiovascular disease ( 15.2%) ,non cardiovascular disease ( 14.7%) , infection and sepsis ( 12.8%) , and hemorrhage ( 11.5%), as the top reasons for death among these women with more than half of the above named being preventable. The United States as of 28th 18 is saying a rise in these numbers with a staggering 20+ deaths per 100,000 reported with 47.2 deaths per 100,000 being black mothers .

47.2! That number means that if you are black, female, and childbearing the chances that you may pass away during delivery or shortly after pregnancy is incredibly high compared to other races.

Take for instance the story of Kira Johnson. Kira gave birth to my son Langston on April 12, 2016 as Cedars-Sinai medical center in California. After her husband noticed blood in her catheter and he alerted hospital staff on subsequently ordered stat diagnostic CT scans. Expecting the test to be performed immediately they waited 7 hours for this game which never got performed. Instead after Cara began to shake uncontrollably and internal exam was the which they husband Charles was told would take 15 minutes. Watching his wife be rolled away that was the last time he saw Kira alive. But the Johnson story is not isolated thousands of women's family share this heartbreak every year in this country. Hospitals failed these women on multiple fronts yet the CDC reports the over all reason for this is unknown. To that I call bullshit.

As a health care worker and black woman in this country the reasons for this horrific trend is abundantly clear. Every day I see the concerns of women in hospitals go unnoticed or ignored for one reason or another. I have personally witnessed women reporting pain or complications to their providers to have them be told they are fine and incapable hands without even a simple check.

Take shalon Irving who was a lieutenant commander in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and CDC epidemiologist who died after complications from high blood pressure and 2017. She sought medical care on 5 different occasion's before her death. She was told to just give it time and given medication and sent home where she only had a few hours before she was admitted to the hospital and died 4 days later. She was 36 years old.

Stories like these are part of my own decision to wait. Having a complex medical history that includes auto immune disease, nerve damage, chronic pain, and internal chronic organ spasms, I fall into the category of high risk. Add in prior spontaneous miscarriage and it would require the collaboration of multiple health care providers to ensure a safe pregnancy and delivery for both myself and my child. Having that information up front and knowing what it would take you would think that would squelch some of my fears but having had to fight for years to have my pain taken seriously, being given multiple medications that interact negatively by my "team" who failed to recognize the contraindications resulting in suicidal ideations, ulcers, palpitations, and more, while also having my own doctors tell me my pain is all in my head and sending me to therapy only to later realize I suffered from real diagnosable conditions, I have little faith that should any issues arise they would be taken seriously and treated in a timely fashion or even prevented when possible if I don't figure it out myself 1st.

Being a first time mom even with all of my experience, knowledge, and tenacity there are things I don't know and that scares the crap out of me

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God" ~ Corrie ten Boom"

I know having kids comes with a requirement of "have faith" but seeing what I've seen, hearing what I've heard, and experiencing the things I have has left me in a place of inherently shaky faith on this topic. Watching mothers come in hopeful and being rolled back to the OR do to hemorrhages, and complications has left me paralyzed with the question of what more could have been done?

"Too often, any maternal death in our communities is outsized, in terms of the impact it has on families. Mayors are being forced to extend our reach to do things we used to rely on the federal government to provide. With this issue, we have to call on the knowledge, and the voices and the energy of our communities to save lives. We can’t wait for the next study or report.- Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser " -- National Geographic Newsletter PUBLISHED December 13, 2018

Some of the work being done out there does give me a glimmer of hope though. Like the tool kits being used in California that take real life scenarios and transform them and to policies, and step-by-step procedures to deal with the Complications including dry runs, skills labs, and continuous meetings to assess and reassess the policies which resulted in a 55% decline in maternal mortality from 2006 to 2013 and the efforts of North Carolina to incentive care resulting in risk assessments for Medicaid mothers and care managers assigned to those found to be at risk which gives hands on care plans during and after delivery to ensure maternal and infant safety all give me some relief. I also believe the hard work of doulas can be attributed to this topic as a win. The list have been statistically proven to reduce low birth weight at 4x the rate Of other methods as well as producing 2x times fewer maternal complications.

Overall the topic of maternal mortality and especially in black women can be and should be this goes constantly and thoughtfully until the numbers have seen a dramatic decline. Until then I will be keeping a constant watch, praying, and moving to see change.

I love and send light to every mother and mother to be out there and don't worry together we can #changethenarrative.

To watch the TED Talk by America’s Maternal Nightmare | Dr. Monique Rainford | TEDxWilmington click the link below:

Click below to hear from Kira Johnson’s husband Charles on being asked to lend Kira’s story to the writers of The Resident.

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lawofficesgaryrohlwing · 5 years

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Hidalgo v. Arizona: Challenging Arizona’s Death Penalty Schem

The Arizona Revised Statutes state that first degree murder and any murder committed during the commission of 22 different felonies are eligible for the death penalty. A.R.S. § 13-751 sets out fourteen aggravating circumstances for a jury to consider. If a jury finds at least one of the aggravating circumstances and then determines that there are no mitigating circumstances sufficiently substantial to call for leniency, it shall impose the death penalty. The Arizona Legislature established the aggravating circumstances in order to comply with the Eighth Amendment as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court in Lowenfield v. Phelps, 484 U.S. 231 (1988). Abel Hidalgo killed two people in Maricopa County. He pled guilty but a jury decided whether he should receive the death penalty. The jury found four aggravating factors and sentenced him to death. The Arizona Supreme Court affirmed his death sentence. These facts and the arguments below are from his Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court filed on August 14, 2017 which is found at http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/17-251-petition.pdf Hidalgo argued that A.R.S. § 13-751 violated the Eighth Amendment because it didn’t narrow the class of persons eligible for the death penalty, arbitrarily enabled racial disparities, and relied on county resources (or lack thereof) instead of characteristics of the offense: “. . . Petitioner in this case set out evidence demonstrating that the aggravating circumstances serve no narrowing function at all because “virtually every first degree murder case [in Arizona] presents facts that could support at least one [of the legislature’s] aggravating circumstance[s].” Pet. App. 11a. The Arizona Supreme Court did not dispute the accuracy of this claim; it approved the trial court’s decision to “deny[] an evidentiary hearing and instead [to] assume [] the truth of Hidalgo’s factual assertions.” Id. at 4a-7a. But it held that Arizona’s capital sentencing scheme is nonetheless consistent with the Eighth Amendment. That holding is plainly incompatible with this Court’s insistence that a statutory scheme must limit the class of death-eligible defendants. See, e.g., Zant, 462 U.S. at 878. (p.p. 12-13). “First, the arbitrariness of Arizona’s scheme enables troubling racial disparities. Arizona follows the national trend in that “individuals accused of murdering white victims, as opposed to black or other minority victims, are more likely to receive the death penalty.” Glossip v. Gross, 135 S. Ct. 2726, 2760 (2015) (Breyer, J., dissenting). One study published in 1997 demonstrated that “white-victim homicides in Arizona are much more likely to result in death sentences than minority-victim homicides.” Ernie Thomson, Discrimination and the Death Penalty in Arizona, 22 Crim. Just. Rev. 65, 73 (1997). “Minorities accused of killing whites are more than three times as likely to be sentenced to death as minorities accused of killing other minorities. (6.7% vs. 2.0%).” Id. And a Hispanic man accused of killing a white man is 4.6 times as likely to be sentenced to death as a whit man accused of killing a Hispanic victim. See Id. These problems have persisted since that study was published. In Maricopa County—where Hidalgo was tried and convicted—18% of the defendants sentenced to death were black, even though black people comprise just 6% of the population. Fair Punishment Project, Too Broken to Fix: Part I: An In-Depth Look at America’s Outlier Death Penalty Counties 12 (2016) (hereinafter “FPP Report”). In all, 57% of the defendants sentenced to death between 2010 and 2015 were people of color. Id. at 11. In short, the failure of Arizona to narrow the class of offenders eligible for the death penalty has allowed for bias in its imposition. Second Arizona’s death penalty turns on accidents of geography and county resources, rather than the characteristics of the offense. Hidalgo adduced evidence that, because of financial limitations, several counties were unable to pursue the death penalty even in cases with facts far more heinous than in his own. Pet. App. 14a-15a, 34a. Maricopa County (where Hidalgo was tried) is on the other end of the spectrum: it imposed the death penalty at a rate 2.3 times higher than the rest of Arizona between 2010 and 2015. FPP Report at 8. That was driven in part by a particularly zealous County Attorney, who was disbarred in 2012 because he had “outrageously exploited power, flagrantly fostered fear, and disgracefully misused the law.” In re Thomas, No. PDJ-2011-9002 at 8. The happenstance of geography is no way to “rationally distinguish between those individuals for whom death is an appropriate sanction and those for whom it is not.” Spaziano, 468 U.S. at 460.” (p.p. 19-21). Hidalgo’s Petition is currently pending in the United States Supreme Court. A.R.S. § 13-751 isn’t the only statute that lists aggravating circumstances. A.R.S. § 13-701(D) lists 26 aggravating circumstances that can be used to impose a higher sentence on a person convicted of a felony. The aggravating circumstances are similar to those found in A.R.S. § 13-751. If the Supreme Court decides to hear Hidalgo, it could potentially decide that all or part of these statutes are unconstitutional. If you are charged with a felony, the prosecutor will probably argue that one or more of the aggravating circumstances found in A.R.S. § 13-701(D) apply. You need an experienced defense attorney to fight for you. Attorney Gary Rohlwing has over three decades experience. Call him today for a free initial consultation.

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douglasacogan · 6 years

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State judge rejects constitutional attack on Tennessee's lethal injection protocol

The state of Tennessee has not conducted an execution in nearly a decade, but it has three scheduled for later this year including one slated for August 9. The prospect of these executions going forward got more likely this past week after, as reported in this local article, a state judge rejected a suit brought by many death row inmates challenging the constitutionality of the state's lethal injection protocol. Here are the basics:

Tennessee can use controversial drugs to execute inmates on death row despite concerns from defense attorneys and experts that doing so is "akin to burning someone alive," a Nashville judge ruled Thursday. The ruling is a blow to 33 death row inmates who had challenged the state's lethal injection protocol, saying it led to cruel and unusual punishment forbidden by the U.S. Constitution. Among them is Billy Ray Irick, who is scheduled to be executed Aug. 9.

But the ruling won't be the final word. The inmates' attorneys quickly announced they would appeal.

Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle issued the 51-page ruling on the case Thursday evening, forcefully denying the inmates' claims and saying they failed to meet two critical bars necessary to overturn an execution method.... "Although dreadful and grim, it is the law that while surgeries should be pain-free, there is no constitutional requirement for that with executions," Lyle wrote, echoing an argument made by attorneys for the state....

The inmates, who filed the suit against the state in February, did not argue against the death penalty itself. Instead, they focused on the use of midazolam, the first drug in the state's new protocol, that is meant to put an inmate to sleep before two other drugs stop the heart and lungs.

Experts who testified on the inmates' behalf said midazolam is often ineffective, leaving people awake and aware of the acidic poison that kills them. The experts pulled examples from executions across the country, in which witnesses saw inmates thrashing, moaning and crying as the drugs coursed through their veins. "That is akin to burning someone alive. That is not hyperbole. That is not an exaggeration," said Henry. "That's avoidable."

Lyle acknowledged that the inmates' case included testimony from "well-qualified and imminent experts," and she conceded "the inmate being executed may be able to feel pain from the administration of the second and third drugs."... But, Lyle wrote, the inmates' attorneys did not prove that the three-drug protocol would lead to prolonged periods of "needless suffering," one of the key factors that could lead to unconstitutional torture. She pointed to the relatively brief executions cited by the inmates' attorneys, which ended after an average of 13.55 minutes.

Deputy Attorney General Scott Sutherland, who represented the state and the Department of Correction, tied midazolam to ongoing work to make executions more humane. He pointed to rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court and other judicial panels that upheld executions using midazolam. And he said that the inmates had failed to prove pentobarbital was readily available to be used instead of the three-drug protocol.

Lyle agreed. "It is not enough, the United States Supreme Court has held, for the inmate to claim that the State’s method of execution is cruel and unusual," Lyle wrote. "The inmate must also make a claim in the lawsuit he files and must prove at trial in his case that there is a known and available method to execute him that, in comparison to the State’s execution method, significantly reduces a substantial risk of pain."

The state court ruling referenced in this article is available at this link, and here is a portion of the introduction to the 50-page opinion:

The law of the United States requires that to halt a lethal injection execution1 as cruel and unusual, an inmate must state in his lawsuit and prove at trial that there is another way, available to the State, to carry out the execution. That is, the inmate is required to prove an alternative method of execution. Glossip v. Gross, 135 S. Ct. 2726, 2732-33 (2015). Absent proof of an alternative method, an execution can not be halted....

Thus, whether a lethal injection method is unconstitutional is a comparative analysis. To halt a lethal injection execution as cruel and unusual, an inmate must prove not only that there is a better drug for lethal injection but that the better drug is available to the State. That proof has not been provided in this case.

The Inmates who filed this lawsuit have failed to prove the essential element required by the United States Supreme Court that there exists an available alternative to the execution method they are challenging. On this basis alone, by United States law, this lawsuit must be dismissed.

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