The Shocking Truth About the Electric Chair

Washington Examiner ^ | 03-28-16 | Daniel Allott

[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.

[dfwgator]

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?

[Lurker]

Nitrogen asphyxiation.

L

[smokingfrog]

Energy conservation?

[headsonpikes]

I’ve never understood the “Hanging’s too good for him” sentiment.

I think hanging is just right.

[Responsibility2nd]

Firing Squad.

IMO, the best, quickest, most effective and efficient manner of carrying out the death penalty.

[I want the USA back]

“Shocking?”

Are we supposed to laugh at the author’s literary skill?

[ConservativeDude]

maybe they could power the electricity chair by solar to satisfy the greenies?

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

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.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

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.

[Farmer Dean]

That’s very effective.Quick too.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

Gruesome Gertie
Old Smokey
Old Sparky
Yellow Mama

[Michael.SF.]

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.

;)

[rhubarbk]

Well there goes my new screen and keyboard . . . Coke Zero all over both. Thanks!!!

[dfwgator]

Plus you can reuse the rope.

[sheik yerbouty]

A rope is recyclable..

[tophat9000]

electric chair now that’s one serious”ZOT”

[dfwgator]

OK, Godfather III was bad, but I would not have killed him for it.

Sofia Coppola was the one who should have been executed.

[Jim W N]

How to implement the death penalty: another example that there is no right way to do the wrong thing.

[SandRat]

Are we supposed to use a MAN sized Microwave Oven to “Nuke” criminals instead of some other “Humane” way of execution?