ACLU rejects "kinder, gentler" execution on 1st Amendment grounds?

ACLU: Lethal Injection Violates 1st Amend. By DAVID KRAVETS, Associated Press Writer Wed Mar 8, 11:25 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Civil Liberties Union claimed Wednesday that California's lethal injection method violates the First Amendment rights of execution witnesses by not allowing them to see if the inmate is experiencing pain before death. [Yahoo News]

It is cases like this that give the ACLU a bad name. What exactly are they hoping for? A more gruesome execution or the end of all executions? To say that [t]he paralyzing drug makes it impossible for witnesses to determine whether death row inmates in California are being subjected to substantial and unnecessary pain before dying....and [t]he induced paralysis...conceals significant information to which the public is entitled makes no sense to me whatsoever. Inducing paralysis conceals information? Like the death throes of a human being is something to be studied in-depth? The ACLU has in their day championed some very noble causes, but this folks, is not one of them.