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‘Botched’ Oklahoma Execution Proves It’s Time to Bring Back the Guillotine
freebeacon.com ^ | April 30, 2014 | Sonny Bunch

Posted on 05/05/2014 7:44:37 PM PDT by grundle

Last night, Oklahoma was scheduled to execute two individuals. The second execution was to be of a man who raped and murdered an 11-month-old girl. That execution never took place because the first execution—that of a man who was involved in the murder and burial alive of a 19-year-old woman who walked in on a robbery—ran into some difficulties. The state was using a new lethal injection cocktail and, it seems, the poor murderer suffered a bit before expiring of a heart attack.

So how do we minimize suffering of the condemned? Our biggest problem as a society is that we have decided bloodlessness is a suitable stand-in for lack of suffering (and a way to protect the sensibilities of those who support the death penalty). Well, the pursuit of a bloodless execution seems to have backfired pretty badly here. And there’s evidence that previous lethal injection cocktails weren’t much better. Allow me to propose a rather radical alternative: the guillotine.

the guillotine really seems to solve everyone’s problems: It was designed to deliver an efficient, quick, and painless death. It performs that task admirably.

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To: Fai Mao
I believe you're right. Nor am I entirely opposed to it as a method of sending people off. It has the same immediacy of hanging, that is, the severing of the spinal chord. It's just a little more severed.

I don't mean to sound overly flippant on the issue. The reason for that is this monster: Joseph Duncan. He's still drawing breath. He shouldn't be.

21 posted on 05/05/2014 8:50:12 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: grundle

“Old Sparky” used to be the way Texas dispatched them.

I remember the UN and ACLU cried “cruel and unusual punishment” every time Reddy Kilowatt (brandname) sent a big tingle down their leg and up their a$$.


22 posted on 05/05/2014 8:52:12 PM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: Billthedrill
Head removal doesn't seem to bother the political left (including the media) when the Muslims do it, but I concede the point.

Perhaps it's time to hide the entire thing behind some hippie-dippy new-age ceremony, similar to "Carousel" in Logan's Run.

23 posted on 05/05/2014 8:57:21 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: grundle

The Guillotine is you know... too European, hanging is good, firing squad is okay, but Old Sparky, now that’s the ticket, the only change would be to administer the current gradually.

At least for those who murdered their victims in a cruel and unusual manner, or they should be executed in the same manner as they executed their victim.


24 posted on 05/05/2014 8:58:20 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: grundle

Any form of execution is humane as long as the criminal is unconscious.

KETAMINE and firing squad, guillotine, hanging, electric chair...anything.


25 posted on 05/05/2014 9:03:51 PM PDT by Bobalu (What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
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To: grundle

the guillotine is fine gut the execution was 100% effective, HE’S DEAD!!!!!


26 posted on 05/05/2014 9:10:03 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: 353FMG

well by that criteria, I guess the wood chipper is out too?


27 posted on 05/05/2014 9:15:23 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: grundle
Another angle on the article illustration:

Apparently, it's in Dubrovnik.

28 posted on 05/05/2014 9:15:50 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: grundle

Burn them at the stake. A hot stake is better than a cold chop.


29 posted on 05/05/2014 9:36:29 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: bigbob; 353FMG
well by that criteria, I guess the wood chipper is out too?

When it comes to wood chipper messes, you should ask Henry Lee.

But if you are interested high deterrent value execution methods, you should read the opening of Soviet defector Victor Suvorov's book Aquarium, which describes the GRU, an organization Suvorov managed to leave by means other than the mode he describes.

30 posted on 05/05/2014 9:43:11 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: grundle

“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. “ Revelation 20:4


31 posted on 05/06/2014 5:22:34 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: JohnBovenmyer

The perp also put up a battle royal to frustrate the execution and disrupt the whole procedure. That’s why they had to cut down to find his femoral vein. IOW he pooped into his own nest and has to live with it for eternity.


32 posted on 05/06/2014 7:27:13 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: 353FMG

“Who’s going to clean up the mess?”

The next condemned man in line. It will give him something to do and think about as he awaits his turn.


33 posted on 05/06/2014 10:53:01 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: grundle
‘Botched’ Oklahoma Execution


34 posted on 05/06/2014 10:56:34 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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