Posted on 05/06/2021 6:29:59 AM PDT by deport
The South Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that allows for firing squads to carry out death penalty sentences and makes electrocution a more likely means of execution.
Difficulties finding the required drugs have essentially paused executions in many states. The bill changes the default method of execution to electrocution if lethal injections cannot be given.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
And Texas lags behind. Again.
With the price of ammo, lethal injection may be cheaper.
I love it! The reason the lethal injection drugs are so hard to get hold of is because liberal groups pressured the pharmaceutical companies to stop making them. So now instead of a painless injection the criminals they so want to protect are going to get shot or fried.
A good way for states to raise money...
Hold a lottery for citizens to try for a spot on a firing squad.
Millions will buy tickets.
Has Linn wood famously quipped “Pence first!”
Hee hee
When they gonna do them?
Here's the deal for me...When it's DEAD TO RIGHTS NO ONE DISAGREES with what happened
Get rid of them. POST HASTE.
Historically, a lot of executions happened within days of the crime. When you know, you know. Why wait?
There, I fixed it for you.
Why wait?
Because you can't undo mistakes.
I never understood such certainty in government decisions by supposed conservatives.
Nitrogen asphyxiation is painless, inexpensive, and works every single time.
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I think it's all about the $$
Couldn't we switch to paint balls? The country relies on symbols and witchcraft anyway.
“Difficulties finding the required drugs have essentially paused executions in many states.”
Really? C’mon Man, Fentanyl is cheap and effective. Ask all those dead o.d.’ed junkies.
When it’s cut and dry? Why wait?
Rope is cheaper.....
There is a long history of murderers murdering more people after being found guilty of murder. In prison and out of prison, killers often kill again.
Sparing the life of the guilty can mean condemning the innocent to die.
There is no comparable history of innocent people being executed. It’s rare. I think that in US history, it’s almost impossible to find a case where an innocent person was found guilty by a court and wrongly executed by the government.
Also: this doesn’t need to be a broad brush: I think OJ was guilty. OK, maybe there is a little doubt. So, maybe don’t execute OJ. Mark David Chapman? He definitely killed John Lennon. Maybe he’s crazy. So, maybe don’t execute Chapman.
But if the guy is evil and if it’s obvious that he’s guilty (it often is, you know) then why execute him 25 years after the crime? Why wait?
It was Gary Gilmore’s choice for his own death. (Utah, I think.)
Well deserved, I might add.
“Rope is cheaper...”
It’s also organic (hemp) sustainable, reusable and recyclable! :)
Though my Dad used to say to me: “You’d complain if I hung you with a new rope!” *SMIRK*
I miss that guy! :)
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