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[leia131]

I don't know if any of you have seen Dead Man Walking, but I had to watch it for Christian Ethics.

Now disregarding how I feel about rape, murder, poor people, nuns, the death penalty, allowing the victims' families to watch, the appeals system, state appointed lawyers, Catholocisim, and Jack Black in a non-comedic movie, I was struck by the sheer absurdity of the nurse swabbing Sean Penn's arm before inserting the needle that carried the drug that killed him. I mean, why bother? Is it so that in the unlikely event that the condemned survives the injection, they don't want him to die of an infection? WTF?

Just thought I'd share.

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[doctorfumbles.livejournal.com]

Maybe she was like "I know this will hurt, so I'm going to pretend that swabbing your arm will take away less of the pain."

Maybe it's just procedure?

*shrug* You're totally right, though. That is a WTF matter.
Haven't seen the movie, btw, XD