Looks premeditated to me

Image by LASTOChkin at DeviantArt. Don't know if the styling of the nym should be called capital (majuscule) PUNishment because I don't see the pun.

[Missouri Attorney General] Koster dismissed concerns over the cruelty of reviving the gas chamber in an exchange with The Associated Press, saying, “The premeditated murder of an innocent Missourian is cruel and unusual punishment. The lawful implementation of the death penalty, following a fair and reasoned jury trial, is not.” (via ThinkProgress)

Because no innocent person could ever be executed in Missouri. Except once in a while. Like if they miss a deadline, which shows bad moral character.

And is the gas chamber crueler than Dr. Doerhoff?

The doctor testified anonymously that he is dyslexic. That he sometimes confused names of drugs. That he sometimes gave inconsistent testimony. That the injection protocol was not written down, and that he made changes on his “independent authority.”

And that turns out not to be all. The Post-Dispatch has confirmed the man behind the screen was Dr. Alan R. Doerhoff, 62, of Jefferson City. Two Missouri hospitals won’t allow him to practice within their walls. He has been sued for malpractice more than 20 times, by his own estimate, and was publicly reprimanded in 2003 by the state Board of Healing Arts for failing to disclose malpractice suits to a hospital where he was treating patients. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch via Lethal Injection)