Posted on 02/08/2008 6:39:53 PM PST by plain talk
A child killer received a reprieve Friday from the Nebraska Supreme Court, which ruled that electrocution, the state's only means of capital punishment, is unconstitutional. "Old Sparky" was used for 60 years to execute inmates in Texas before it was decommissioned in 1964.
Death penalty experts said the ruling is likely to put an end to a form of execution rarely used in the United States in recent years. Lethal injection is administered in 35 of the 36 states that execute condemned prisoners, with Nebraska the sole exception.
"It is the hallmark of a civilized society that we punish cruelty without practicing it," said the ruling from the seven-justice majority. "The evidence shows that electrocution inflicts intense pain and agonizing suffering. Therefore, electrocution as a method of execution is cruel and unusual punishment."
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Simple, get a firing squad to just shoot the child killer!
Dang! No more crispy critters.
Is it cruel AND unusual?
Well, they say if done correctly, hanging is pretty painless. But I’m open to discussion.
I don’t care how they kill them, just kill them and get rid of the backlog! Electric chair, lethal injection, firing squid, or hours and hours of Mother-in-Law blather … just execute them.
I’m a fan of the steel plate method. Drop a 15 ton steel plate on the prisoner or for the frugal executioner, just his head. Death is instant and painless. Have a car wash mechanism hose everything down and it’s spic an span for the next pederast/murderer.
For child killers it should be excruciatingly painful and lingering.
Ole Sparky was plenty good enough for Charlie Starkweather...
The constitution prohibited cruel and unusual punishment, it didn’t promise painless execution. I doubt the framers veiwed execution in the same fashion the current PC crowd does.
1. So what if it is? It isn’t painful for very long.
2. Then we gotta stop police from using tasers. They’re killing people left and right with these things.
3. I guess we have to go back to the old days when the guards would eventually stumble across a convict who ‘had an accident’. Slipped in the shower, cracked his head open.
If you’ve got a good professional who can break the neck of the condemned man pretty much every time, hanging can be quick and easy. But there a lot of jacklegs who don’t/didn’t know how to do it, and it ends up strangling the guy to death at the end of a rope. Which isn’t the worst thing some child raping murdering scum could receive, but it gives his lawyers some leverage in the courts. Hypothetically, no one ever feels any pain with the guillotine.
Millions of headless chickens would beg to differ with you.
In China, they shoot you and then charge the family for the cost of the bullet.
Of course, you could always argue the criminal will get a real charge out of the electric chair. And if that does not fly, argue the crimnal will be getting an instant course on current events. If they think that is shocking and revolting, tell them to think about the revolting nature of the crime.
So, you're referring to a single squid firing multiple guns from it's tentacles, or squids being fired at high-velocity at the perp?
"snicker"
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There is no faster, more humane, and more painless method of execution than this. Perhaps Nebraska should adopt it.
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I am afraid some people will really lose their heads over that idea.
How about lobotomies?
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If you’ve got a good professional who can break the neck of the condemned man pretty much every time, hanging can be quick and easy. But there a lot of jacklegs who don’t/didn’t know how to do it, and it ends up strangling the guy to death at the end of a rope. Which isn’t the worst thing some child raping murdering scum could receive, but it gives his lawyers some leverage in the courts. Hypothetically, no one ever feels any pain with the guillotine.
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I am sure there are some that would consider hanging to be a really big let down.
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