I have so many conflicting thoughts about the death penalty. I believe that some rabid dogs really need to be put down. Yeah, I know. Execute one innocent life and then the whole works goes tits up and all the moral high ground is lost. Therein lies the rub. Who among us is qualified to make this decision? Why isn't everybody wearing body cams? Why aren't drones watching our every move? Why isn't Minority Report real? How is life without parole any more humane? And so on since the beginning of time...

Anyways, I am not interested in this debate. But this headline most certainly caught my attention:

Alabama pauses executions after third lethal injection fails

Jesus fucking Christ. How is this even a thing?

Well, as it turns out, the first execution halted was a result of prison staff spending more than an hour failing to find their prisoner's vein. Sure, they poked several locations. But time was running out. This is what happens when you start an execution at 11:21PM and you ONLY have until midnight UNTIL the death penalty expires! (I didn't know that was a thing, neither.) Anyway, as bad luck would have it, with minutes to go, they finally found a single suitable vein... no matter. They had to halt the whole proceeding because protocol dictates that you need to establish a SECOND IV line and, flailing frantically as they might, they were unsuccessful.

Oh, the embarrassment, no? Well, buckle up because there's more.

Turns out nearly the same thing happened a few months earlier when, after two and a half hours of hunting, no vein could be found for the this particular prisoner neither.

Not to mention, there's additional recorded incidents of the same problem going back to 2018 and beyond. Add to this, examples of various victim families completely objecting to an execution (doesn't matter). Because good old 'Bama marched ahead and carried them out anyway. It was even recorded that one fellow's execution somehow took more than 3 hours to carry out. Guess the cause of this delay? "Can't find no vein!" Yep. And there's another incident of a fellow who, following the injection, was deemed unconscious then began twitching and convulsing violently on the gurney... and, after 43 minutes of this vulgar display, the guy finally kicked it as a result of a heart attack. Executions are stressful, no? Even so, I bet that was no fun for the victim's family to watch.

Does the "Gov" of Alabama blame law enforcement or correction officials employed to carry out the executions? Of course not. Why? Well, you probably can't fire your Uncle or your nephew, right? Doesn't look good for the family and so forth... Nope, she blames "legal tactics and criminals hijacking the system." Whatever that means.

So, yeah. Anyway. That's just one reason why all the aliens HATE us and won't talk to us. There are so many others. And I will try to eventually cover them all.

PS. Life Advice: Never lie in a bed that looks anything like this one, if you can help it: