Posted on 12/09/2016 2:46:35 AM PST by SMGFan
— A man who killed an Alabama convenience store clerk more than two decades ago was put to death Thursday night, an execution that required two consciousness tests as the inmate heaved and coughed 13 minutes into the lethal injection.
Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was pronounced dead at 11:05 p.m., about 30 minutes after the procedure began at the state prison in southwest Alabama. Smith was convicted of capital murder in the Nov. 8, 1994, fatal shooting of Huntsville store clerk Casey Wilson. A jury voted 7-5 to recommend a sentence of life imprisonment, but a judge overrode that recommendation and sentenced Smith to death.
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What is the average time on death row?
In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months (roughly 15 years) between sentencing and execution. Nearly a quarter of deaths on death row in the U.S. are due to natural causes.
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Good for the judge. Life sentence, huh jury? How much ‘life’ did this guy give his victim?
I think they should just give them life without parole. It is actually cheaper in the long run as the length of time is spent with the state providing attorneys and stuff for all of the stays, reviews, etc. I am of the opinion that life in prison is also more of a punishment than death. Although I can see why the victim’s families may prefer death - then they know for sure that the perp is finally gone and not a thought or a worry.
I WAS GOING TO SAY THE SAME THING ...KIND OF, He got to exist for 22 years on the taxpaters dime...bout time he suffered.
Use nitrogen. Inert, inexpensive, readily available, murderer asphyxciates as brain is denied oxygen, passes out (faints) and slowly succumbs. Leave mask on for an hour or so.
Chemical free! Unless a bit to nitrous oxide is used to start the process.
It’s an outrage!
But carbon monoxide puts you to sleep with that healthy glow. Unmixed with other exhaust fumes who could argue that inhumane?
Is that a No. 5 blade on that Chanel?
Thanks for the reminder SkyPilot!
Not only will our “betters” re-introduce this painless and practical method, they will make it into a public circus when it happens.
I imagine a LGBT couple with their two adopted “kids” having ice cream, funnel cakes and balloons while they take their seats at the stadium to witness the one-by-one beheading of “hateful-bigoted” Conservative Christians in the not too distant future.
Not inhumane, but dangerous to the executioners and any witnesses. Nitrogen is simply diluted into the fraction existing in air if any escapes the execution hood (which it will). Or one of the other inexpensive inert gases (argon).
Why use a hood? A small, sealed chamber should do the trick.
A little high. Average is about 16 years.
He still had a more peaceful and painless death than his victim did.
How about a half pound of C-4 in an open field. Seems that would be quick.
We need a national DNA base system to guarantee we got our man or women and then stream line the time line of these executions. We should not be paying for years and years
The worst form of life without parole punishment is one which includes solitary confinement. Robert Hanssen is a former U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for twenty-two years from 1979 to 2001.
Upon being arrested, Hanssen asked, "What took you so long?"
Hanssen is Federal Bureau of Prisons prisoner #48551-083. He is serving his sentence at the ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado in solitary confinement for twenty-three hours a day. This is where he has spent all but one hour a day since 2001, with no outside contact, no books, no internet:
Once the FBI's most brilliant agent, they say his brain has turned to mush. He's lost much of the ability to speak and comprehend language.
Wow, he’s an abysmal traitor but that’s cruel and unusual. Should have just killed him.
what, no heroine in Alabama? give the POS a hotshot and be done with it...
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