Posted on 06/17/2021 4:08:30 AM PDT by RandFan
The South Carolina supreme court halted the executions of Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens, ruling that officials needed to put together a firing squad to give them the option of how to be killed.
Sigmon, 63, was scheduled to be executed using the electric chair on Friday, the first use of capital punishment in the state in a decade.
He was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2002.
Owens' electric chair execution was set for 25 June, having been convicted of murdering a store worker during a robbery in 1999.
The state recently changed its capital punishment law to address a shortage of lethal injection drugs.
It now forces death row inmates to choose between electrocution or firing squad if the drugs are unavailable.
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There’s a lot of fentanyl around. Use that.
+1
I believe that companies are refusing to sell them to states for the purpose of executing people.
That was one creepy dude! But that cow thumper gizmo of his would work at least as fast as a well placed bullet.
Tell that ro Ashli.
And quick. Great choice.
“Is hanging no longer PC?”
Public hanging should be the standard. People should not be insulated from the penalties of criminal actions, it’s a great deterrent.
Besides, a noose can be used over and over, and we love recycling!
I think they should sit them down in front of a huge theater screen and force them to watch the Green Mile. A Clockwork Orange setup should insure compliance.
No helicopters in South Carolina?
By making it anything that is public, such as a public hanging, that should offer some “inducements” to other would be criminals. Other less serious crimes could also be prosecuted & carried out publicly as well. We even used some of the methods in this country at one time I think.
A horse, a rope, and a tree. Worked for hundreds of years and no one blames the horse 🐎
A horse, a rope, and a tree. Worked for hundreds of years and no one blames the horse 🐎
Anton Chigurh and his air tank. LOL! That'd do the trick for sure!
Absolutely!
shortage of lethal injection drugs.
Battery acid !!!!
Give them the covid vax every day until they die.
Bull hockey, they put down abandoned pets by the thousands daily.
shortage of lethal injection drugs.
Yet , Fentanyl still seems to flow freely across
our borders...
I dont get it either but read about it years ago and for some reason States find it hard to get and I think it’s because of protests
Probably to many Karens in power at the drug makers, might be a future business possibility?
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