Posted on 12/05/2019 6:56:38 PM PST by NRx
Executed on a Thursday. Thor’s Day. Thor was the Norse god of thunder and lightning.
As good a “fry” day as you could want! :-D
$30 a day for food would be over $300,000.
Bed at $50 a day is over $500,000.
Guard at $8k a year (say $80k but covers 10 inmates) = $224,000.
Attorney’s fees paid by the state for each of his appeals, say 5 at 90 days each at $300 an hour equals over $1 million.
I’ve read where a lot of the cost is the appeals process. Obviously my little example is just some of the costs. Some website said it ranged from $80 to $700k a year. They said older inmates cost more due to health issues, but that can’t be the main reason for the HUGE range in costs.
On top of Old Smokey
Plugged into the wall
I killed my poor lover
And then took a fall
They say love is blind, dear
And so was I
I incinerated your body
Causing you to die
Now 28 years later,
I finally fry
Strapped into Old Smokey
I TZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
Phew. I couldn’t think of anything more to rhyme.
If he’s blind how did he manage to toss a lit gas can into a car?
I can’t imagine why anyone would prefer the electric chair over drugs. I also don’t know why the author of the article or anyone else would think it makes any difference at all whether the perp was blind. The world is now a slightly better place.
The article says he went blind while in prison.
We need a fast track, to many on death row waiting decades only to die of natural causes. We have the tech DNA use it!
Thanks. I needed some good news.
A gasoline fire while locked in his cell would have been my preference.
I vaguely remember this. Really creepy and disturbing. I would like to know, seriously, what the root cause for the act was. To do that to anyone is just evil on steroids.
Use the same method and drugs Veterinarians use to Euthanize animals or the same as they use on sick humans. JUST TOOK 28 YRS. We are now below 60 on TN Death row. Man who beat, raped and drowned 8 yr old Nikki Read, did his crime in 1990, just finished his State appeals, onto Ohio for a decade of Federal appeals with DNA proof.
Killer David Keen https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/keen-david.htm
There was a cartoon, many years ago, that pictured a guy in the electric chair looking up at a sign in the room that read: “You can be sure if it’s Westinghouse,” (Westinghouse’s corporate motto back then).
I found it hysterically funny at my young age.
They were trying to say he shouldn’t be executed because his blindness was caused by inadequate medical care while he was on death row. Go figure.
Ping #54...along the same lines. I wish I still had the cartoon.
Thank you for those numbers. Depressing.
Absolutely. See post #42.
In California it would cost .22 cents a k/w and be too expensive... or during the execution the power would be shutdown by PG&E power as it got windy outside....
If you have to go like that do it like Marvin in "Sin City".
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