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Missouri may bring back gas chamber due to dwindling lethal injection supplies
New York Post ^ | 05 July 2013 | AP

Posted on 07/05/2013 11:46:29 PM PDT by UAConservative

ST. LOUIS — With drugs needed for lethal injection in short supply and courts wrangling over how to execute prisoners without them, Missouri's attorney general is floating one possible solution: Bring back the gas chamber.

In court filings and interviews this week, Attorney General Chris Koster noted that Missouri statutes allow two options for executions: lethal injection and death by gas. Koster's comments come amid his growing frustration over the Missouri Supreme Court's refusal to set execution dates until lethal injection issues are resolved.

"The Missouri death penalty statute has been, in my opinion, unnecessarily entangled in the courts for over a decade," Koster said Wednesday in an email exchange with The Associated Press.

Asked about concerns by some who say using lethal gas could violate condemned inmates' constitutional guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment, Koster responded: "The premeditated murder of an innocent Missourian is cruel and unusual punishment. The lawful implementation of the death penalty, following a fair and reasoned jury trial, is not."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: chamber; cultureofcorruption; death; deathpenalty; delay; gas; gaschamber; missouri
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1 posted on 07/05/2013 11:46:30 PM PDT by UAConservative
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To: UAConservative

Sounds good to me.


2 posted on 07/05/2013 11:47:07 PM PDT by doc1019 (Get our troops the hell out of the ME)
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To: doc1019

Hang ‘em.


3 posted on 07/05/2013 11:47:56 PM PDT by upsdriver ( Palin/West '16)
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To: UAConservative

The guillotine should be considered. Its creation was intended to be a merciful way to execute somebody.


4 posted on 07/05/2013 11:48:58 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: upsdriver

Yep, rope is cheaper then chemicals in the long run.


5 posted on 07/05/2013 11:49:09 PM PDT by doc1019 (Get our troops the hell out of the ME)
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To: UAConservative

Short supply??? Any CBS depressant - including alcohol - given in sufficient doses will do the job.

These are excuses.


6 posted on 07/05/2013 11:49:18 PM PDT by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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To: Stingray

CNS* (Central Nervous System.)


7 posted on 07/05/2013 11:50:01 PM PDT by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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>> lethal injection in short supply

Jeez, I wonder what caliber.


8 posted on 07/05/2013 11:51:51 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: UAConservative

Shoot em, hang em, electric chair, stick their faces up michelle obama’s big fat ass until they puke their guts out, etc...there are countless ways to do the deed. Quit making excuses.


9 posted on 07/05/2013 11:52:52 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: doc1019

If we want to compare costs, bullets are much cheaper than rope.


10 posted on 07/05/2013 11:52:52 PM PDT by doc1019 (Get our troops the hell out of the ME)
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To: Stingray

When I saw “CBS depressant” I though, “but Dan Rather retired.”


11 posted on 07/05/2013 11:52:56 PM PDT by CougarGA7 ("War is an outcome based activity" - Dr. Robert Citino)
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To: doc1019

Environmentally friendly too! Libs should love that!


12 posted on 07/05/2013 11:53:46 PM PDT by upsdriver ( Palin/West '16)
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To: doc1019

Of course rope can be used over and over again.


13 posted on 07/05/2013 11:54:06 PM PDT by doc1019 (Get our troops the hell out of the ME)
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To: UAConservative
The argument always made by those opposed to the means of execution always hang on the Constitutional issue of whether the means are "cruel and unusual" forms of punishment. I can see a loophole in just these three words. Particularly, the word "and"

If the punishment was cruel and common, it would not be unconstitutional.

14 posted on 07/06/2013 12:00:15 AM PDT by CougarGA7 ("War is an outcome based activity" - Dr. Robert Citino)
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To: UAConservative

The answer used to be firing squad, but the price and availability of bullets put the axe to that idea.


15 posted on 07/06/2013 12:00:30 AM PDT by lurk
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To: UAConservative

South Dakota told the DEA to go to Hell when it wanted the states supply, then told them to go to Hell again when they wanted the name of the supplier.


16 posted on 07/06/2013 12:03:48 AM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.)
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To: UAConservative

Why couldn’t they just use a plastic laundry bag.
Quick and painless.

Buy them by the box or rinse them out and be enviromentally
correct, use them over again.


17 posted on 07/06/2013 12:06:17 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Gene Eric

dhs is hogging all of them. friggin bastids.


18 posted on 07/06/2013 12:18:11 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CougarGA7

unusual can be rem,oved simply by applying the death penalty more often. lord knows we’have enough murderers in jail that should not be alive yet for what they’ve done.


19 posted on 07/06/2013 12:19:34 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: max americana
stick their faces up michelle obama’s big fat ass until they puke their guts out

I can't tell you how hard I laughed reading this!

I'd rather be put on the rack than be subjected to that.

20 posted on 07/06/2013 1:42:45 AM PDT by UAConservative (We have just begun to fight!)
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