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The Shocking Truth About the Electric Chair
Washington Examiner ^
| 03-28-16
| Daniel Allott
Posted on 03/29/2016 9:46:40 AM PDT by DGA
Seven hundred and forty-four people have been executed in the United States over the last 15 years. Just nine of them, according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, were killed by electrocution.
But that number may soon rise. Amid controversies over lethal injection drugs, several states are in the midst of reintroducing the electric chair as a method of state-sanctioned capital punishment.
The Virginia House of Delegates recently passed legislation that would require the use of the electric chair for condemned prisoners if lethal injection drugs cannot be found. Similar legislation passed Alabama's state house last year and became law in Tennessee the year before.
This renewed interest in the electric chair is in part a result of the increasing difficulty of obtaining the drugs necessary to carry out lethal injections, which has been the execution method of choice since the Supreme Court reinstituted the death penalty in 1976.
It is worth re-examining why the electric chair fell out of favor in the first place.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; criminaljustice; deathpenalty; virginia
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:46:40 AM PDT
by
DGA
To: DGA
This renewed interest in the electric chair is in part a result of the increasing difficulty of obtaining the drugs necessary to carry out lethal injections,What, they can't find any Drano?
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:47:50 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: DGA
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:49:19 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: DGA
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:49:28 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: DGA
I’ve never understood the “Hanging’s too good for him” sentiment.
I think hanging is just right.
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:49:36 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
To: DGA
Firing Squad.
IMO, the best, quickest, most effective and efficient manner of carrying out the death penalty.
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:49:43 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
To: DGA
“Shocking?”
Are we supposed to laugh at the author’s literary skill?
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:50:16 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Islam mandates warfare against unbelievers and is absolutely incompatible with Western society.)
To: smokingfrog
maybe they could power the electricity chair by solar to satisfy the greenies?
To: DGA
It seems to me that bullets are much cheaper than lethal injections OR electric chairs. For that matter, rope is even cheaper and can be used over and over again.
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:52:43 AM PDT
by
spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
(Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
To: DGA
Simple public hanging by the neck until dead. However, we are approaching the Buddhist phase of our history;i.e. that spiritual phase where even an insect cannot be killed.
To: Lurker
That’s very effective.Quick too.
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:53:05 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
To: DGA
Gruesome Gertie
Old Smokey
Old Sparky
Yellow Mama
To: DGA
One was the electrocution execution of Frank J. Coppola, who was put to death in Virginia. OK, Godfather III was bad, but I would not have killed him for it.
;)
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:54:56 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
To: ConservativeDude
Well there goes my new screen and keyboard . . . Coke Zero all over both. Thanks!!!
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:55:11 AM PDT
by
rhubarbk
(GOPe = NOPe)
To: headsonpikes
Plus you can reuse the rope.
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:55:47 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:56:02 AM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: DGA
electric chair now that’s one serious”ZOT”
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:56:29 AM PDT
by
tophat9000
(King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
To: Michael.SF.
OK, Godfather III was bad, but I would not have killed him for it. Sofia Coppola was the one who should have been executed.
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:56:29 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: DGA
How to implement the death penalty: another example that there is no right way to do the wrong thing.
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:57:40 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
To: I want the USA back
Are we supposed to use a MAN sized Microwave Oven to “Nuke” criminals instead of some other “Humane” way of execution?
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posted on
03/29/2016 9:57:51 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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