Posted on 11/01/2018 6:49:54 PM PDT by Simon Green
Edited on 11/01/2018 8:17:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee inmate's final words were "let's rock" moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state since 2007, put to death for the killings of two men during a drug deal-turned-robbery decades ago.
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heh heh heh heh...
You smell something burning?
a distinct possibility
I think i would have gone with lethal injection. Getting fried inside out sounds like it might hurt a little.
Does he think he’s Al Bundy?
You know, if a man or woman murders several people, I would actually be for executing them, reviving them, and then killing them again, and then reviving them,...and then killing them, for however many people they murdered.
When Zagorski plead for mercy from the Governor
This is probably the case. It's pretty spectacular for the onlookers but in fact the voltage will reach the brain before the pain does. And unlike lethal injection, the subject won't be awakening during the process.
I suspect a bullet to the medulla oblongata or nitrogen asphyxiation would be still less likely to cause trauma to the subject but the only people who could testify to the contrary aren't in a position to do so.
Channeling Todd Beamer? (”Let’s roll.”)
The guy was in the drug lifestyle buying selling and likely using.....they do tend to knife each other when deals fall apart..He shot John Dotson and Jimmy Porter and then slit their throats robbing the two men after they came to him to buy marijuana.
He dead.
I’m thinking Al Bundy.
He turned from Frank Burns to (old) Trapper John.
That should be left up to the judge, the jury, or... hey... the winner of a Pick-the-Execution-Method lottery.
Or Al Bundy ... “Let’s Rock”
I think they misheard
he likely said
Let’s Wok!..
Because he certainly got fried
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