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To: Justaham

Sounds like time to dust off ‘Old Sparky’....

the only thing they’d have to worry about ‘plugging into’ is the wall socket....


3 posted on 09/22/2009 3:21:45 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Uncle Ike

Yeh, but what about the Carbon Footprint of Old Sparky? Gee, do you want to end the world as we know it?//sarc


6 posted on 09/22/2009 3:23:12 PM PDT by bboop (Tar and feathers -- good back then, good now)
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To: Uncle Ike
Sounds like time to dust off ‘Old Sparky’....

There actually was a case I read in law school (I believe from the 1930s), where someone was electrocuted but didn't die from it. SCOTUS held 5-4 that it was not cruel and unusual to try again.

8 posted on 09/22/2009 3:24:35 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Uncle Ike
Sounds like time to dust off ‘Old Sparky’....

the only thing they’d have to worry about ‘plugging into’ is the wall socket....

http://www.crimejunkies.com/Site/Execution_of_Willie_Francis.html ... fried twice.

16 posted on 09/22/2009 3:37:35 PM PDT by cynwoody
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