There's the real problem. It's too hard to carry out the sentence, by any method.
Tennessee has 74 prisoners on death row. ... [S]ince 2000 ... [s]ix inmates have been executed during that time frame, the most recent in 2010.
There’s the real problem. It’s too hard to carry out the sentence, by any method.
We tried to execute a death row inmate 3 years ago. He and another fellow raped and murdered a mother and daughter about 20 years ago. He admitted doing it.
About an hour before he was supposed to get the injection the Supreme Court issued a halt to the execution. It seems his lawyers discovered that his lethal dose had passed the expiration date. The libs argued that giving him an expired shot would be cruel and unusual. So the execution was called off.
What was he going to get? A bad rash to go with his death?
Tennessee didn’t have any spare poison and couldn’t get any. Nobody wants to sell the stuff because the libs give the manufacturers pure hell. And Texas needs all it has on hand. But our crafty Republican governor saw a way around that progressive nonsense.
I’l bet the rapist/murderer is the first to Dance with the Devil when Sparky gets fired up.