Posted on 05/22/2014 7:06:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Tennessee has decided to bring back the electric chair.
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam on Thursday signed a bill into law allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event the state is unable to obtain drugs used for lethal injections. […]
Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Tennessee is the first state to enact a law to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option. …
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awesome. Alabama needs to bring back “Yellow mama”
Good on the Guv!!! Lower the charge so the perp can suffer!
My own opinion about the death penalty has changed, but not on moral or humane grounds. I still fully believe that there are some people who deserve to die. My problem is that I no longer trust the state (generic) with the power to take a human life. Too much of what the state now does is driven by politics and ideology rather than law and justice, that I just do not trust it. Add to that the corruption and incompetence that currently infect the bench at all levels, and the absolute ignorance, stupidity and prejudice of the jury pool, and I say no to the death penalty until we clean up our “legal” system, and restore it to being a “justice” system.
Hmmmmmmmmmm
I think that might be unusual cruelty to a toaster...
“I wish we would just lock them in an airtight room with a mattress and slowly replace the oxygen with some noble gas.”
No need to introduce any gas, noble or otherwise. Military people who are going to become aircrewmen had to go thru what was called “low pressure training” in years past which involved this exact procedure. It’s painless and quick. This is what Payne Stewart and his pilot and co pilot died from - crack in windscreen. Give the perp a 6 pack or whatever drink he prefers; he won’t have time to finish more than two sips.
Being humane is the least of my concerns. I just want the death penalty enforced efficiently and put a stop to the multiple appeals. Evil doers deserve their punishment and if it's painful for them, so be it. My care is not for the criminal but the victim.
Grandma had one of those, I think.
How on earth could you do that to a cat?!
how about ‘bring back gallows ‘ and reserve them for corrupt or treasonous politicians ....
Have a seat Mr. Pete. You’re about to make Zappy happy.
That one can't happen soon enough. It turned what was a quite rural community where people felt safe to Katy bar the door and load the firearms.
I can think of several more who need to join him like the carjacking Murderers/ torture/rapist in Knoxville, Pike, and the Lilylid {sp} killers a bunch of brats who killed the Lilylid family who stopped to help them but IIRC some of the killers were under age.
I agree . If execution must occur, a full firing squad is best. I have heard of electrocution attempts where it took up to three times to kill them dead.Not a job I would ever want though. With a firing squad, it is unclear who shot the killing bullet.
nearly 30 years ago when I took an Industrial Electricity course at a state Voc/Tech there was a book in the class that told how the chair was made and the procedure of execution. The execution is a three step procedure with varying voltages for three specific periods of time. It basically cooks the persons brain. The first initial would likely render then unconscious.
Reminds me of cartoon of guard asking guy sitting in the chair: "Original or Crispy"?
IIRC, that was a steam-powered chair.
What good is it if it’s empty?
Sure looks like it! I recall that one of the first things we’d go for, on arrival, was the bedroom and that chair. Chair before toys.
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