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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Feed them to starving hogs.
This was as utterly predictable as the sunrise. The entire issue of capital punishment is nothing but a tool to keep rubes in line. Neither side has any interest whatsoever in actually resolving the issue.
The very fact that this isn't routinely used is proof that neither side wants any of this to be resolved.
“How can there be a shortage of those types of drugs? “
Missouri has gotten around this by having a compounding pharmacist prepare the ‘cocktail’ for them. The antis challenged this in court, but I believe failed. They then demanded the identity of the pharmacist involved. I don’t know how that turned out.
Dental offices all across America have enough ‘toothache gas’ to handle the ‘crisis’ without even denting the supply chain.
Volunteers? Yeah, I’ll go!
An overdose of heroin or fentanyl will do the deed as well as anything. You can pick them up on most corners of any major city!
shortage of lethal injection drugs.
How can there be a shortage of those types of drugs? Are they being over prescribed?
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They were need for the Corona virus vaccines.
shortage of lethal injection drugs.
How can there be a shortage of those types of drugs? Are they being over prescribed?
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They were needed for the Corona virus vaccines.
Exactly! Heroin works. We confiscate this stuff by the ton every year and what better way to show that it's dangerous.
Seems to me we have an abundance of fentynal coming across the border.
Nah; the way you do it is:
1: Tie the perp to a chair.
2: Fill a syringe with automotive battery acid.
3: inject the perp in a vein: “not an artery”!
4: Waite 5 seconds.
5: Cut the perp loose from the chair.
6: WATCH HIM/HER BOUNCE!!!!!!!!!!
All events are to be broadcast LIVE on Pay Per View
All proceeds are to go to the families of the perps victims.
I agree with you 100% about public hangings, gives the potential criminals a real good idea of where they could end up.
The only thing I would differ with you on is the use of hemp rope, hemp has a tendency to break down over time.
You could wind up with a broken rope and a live perp, I would recommend 3/8ths or1/2 inch wire rope.
The worst accident you could have with wire rope is you might occasionally pop the perps head off.
Just makes for better betting on the Pay Per View.
Cheaper....
Rope. If done halfway competently, quick, painless (or so we believe), cheap, no clean-up.
If the execution drugs are hard to get used seized heroin & give them massive hot shots. Problem solved!
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