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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There is plenty of Heroin sitting in evidence lockers all over this nation. Instead of destroying it, use it for lethal injection. The environMENTALists ought to applaud the effort!
I think they should do a “go fund me” page to pay for the electricity, or bullets, or rope, or rat poison they will need. They would be astonished how much money would be contributed.
Scott: Why don’t you shoot him now? I mean, come on, I’ll go get a gun. We’ll shoot ‘im together. It’ll be fun. BANG! Dead. Done.
Dr. Evil: One more peep out of you and you are grounded, mister! And I am not joking!
Watch for pressure to be applied to electric companies to not provide the needed amperage.
The Chinese (among others) prefer a single bullet to the back of the head. Nitrogen asphyxiation is less traumatic but so far more or less untried. Those would be my choices if the state is to be accorded the duty to take a life at all.
If so, this could take a while...
“A rope is recyclable..”
An electric chair powered by renewable energy should suffice.
Just make sure the sponges are damp.
The most humane is a bullet. Instant death.
Mebbe if we let the bugs eat them...
lol. glad to help in that regard!
That’s why I love this website...it’s often good for a real gut busting laugh!
The guillotine is the most humane. It severs the spinal cord and all nerve/pain centers going to the brain almost instantly. That would be my choice.
What about his daughter?
Okay, someone had to ask. What would Hitler have done with microwave ovens?
Nitrous oxide. It will displace oxygen in the lungs and leave them to die laughing.
Miami-Dade Police in the Sixties had it right!
Electric Bench, seating six to twelve !
Cheaper by the dozen!
Assuming it actually gets destroyed, that is. Something was destroyed, anyway.
Yep, point taken. Also none of the other methods allow the prisoner that one last soccer game... ;-)
One of the strange things I learned about when I went on FReeps was Mumia. I saw “Fry Mumia “ T shirts but had no clue what they meant. I did not know the saga of Mumia and the controversy surrounding him
I don’t think he ever got fried.
The state of Utah had the firing squad as their death penalty for many years...I don’t believe they use this form of execution now??
The only flaw in the design of the electric chair was that it should have been made to opperate on a car battery and you leave the murdering thugs hooked up however long it takes. Then you would see a huge drop in violent crimes.
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