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# Executions aren’t supposed to be pretty
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/executions-arent-supposed-to-be-pretty-editor/
- Published: 2006-03-01T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:18:57.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Cheryl Erb Santa Monica Loss of privacy part of reality Editor:*

I don’t understand why there is any discussion/question, etc. regarding inmates gaining ground in the fight against lethal injection — because there is no consideration given to the way crime victims die. What about their torture and terrifying deaths? If victims had any choice to die by lethal injection, their deaths would be easy.

Why do the criminals repeatedly seem to continue to “win” while their surviving victims, their friends, family and acquaintances repeatedly continue to be victimized? None of them have any choice in how their friends, family or acquaintances die. Criminals choose death for them and because it’s violent — their torture and death are horrific.

What further disgusts me is that death row inmates in 12-plus states fight with “surprising success.”

This is another way that these inmates become victorious. They should die the same way their victims died — not by easy lethal injection.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 1, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/030106.pdf?ref=smdp.com)