SC court rules electric chair, firing squad unconstitutional [So Carolina]

WSPA News 7 ^ | September 6, 2022 | Robert Cox

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yes, that works. Or we could call Vlad out of retirement..

[GaltAdonis]

How Many States Still Use Electric Chairs?

As of 2019, eight states in the United States still use the
electric chair as a method of execution. These states
are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. In some states
where the death penalty is legal but not currently in
use (such as Arizona and Missouri), the electric chair
is still available as a back-up method should lethal
injection be declared unconstitutional or otherwise
unavailable.

The first state to adopt the electric chair was New York in
1888. The last state to do so was Virginia in 1908.
Between 1890 and 2010 there were a total of 315
executions by electric chair across the country.

Of these executions, 156 were carried out in Florida,
making it the state with the most experience using this
method.

[dfwgator]

Gilda Radner:
There’s a little guy in Utah with a single Christmas wish. For one special thing that can’t be substituted. Doesn’t want to get electric trains, get toys or get pet fish. All he really wants to get is executed.

Cast:
So let’s kill Gary Gilmore for Christmas
Let’s hang him from atop the Christmas tree
Let’s give to him the only gift that money can’t buy
Put poison in his egg nog, let him drink it, watch him die

Dan Aykroyd:
Let’s throw another yule log on the fire
And then let’s throw Gary Gilmore on there too
With a ribbon so gay and a card that will say
“Dear Gary, Merry Christmas to you”

Jane, Laraine, Gilda:
In the meadow, we can build a snowman
One with Gary Gilmore packed inside

John, Garrett, Dan:
We’ll say “Are you dead yet?” He’ll say “No, man”


Cast:
But we’ll wait out the frostbite till he dies

Gilda:
I’ve one Christmas wish

Jane, Laraine, John, Garrett, Dan:
Just ask it

Gilda:
Please put Gary in a casket


Cast:
So let’s toll the silver bells for him
While he can still hear what they say
Ding dong ding dong
You’re dead, so long
We can thrill Gary Gilmore
If we kill Gary Gilmore
On this Christmas Day

[Carl Vehse]

Short drop; quick stop.

Maybe it could be tested on impeached, convicted, and sentenced SC court judges with viewers voting on whether they thought it was cruel and unusual.

[eyeamok]

How about Hanging?

[joshua c]

hanging it is

[ApplegateRanch]

It’s only “unusual” because Lib judges keep making it that wat.

Maybe take a lesson from certain Supremes, and look to foreign laws for guidance: They would find it’s not so unusual, after all. /s

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, they got ONE Right!

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Gas chambers with nitrogen are the answer.

Helium asphyxiation is just as effective, and makes for much funnier last words.

[_longranger81]

Someone should do a clever parody of Englebert Humperdinck’s “It’s Not Unusual...”

[StAntKnee]

Ummm. Did the victims of these animals have a choice on how they wanted to die? And were their deaths humane?

[BatGuano]

I would suggest “Defenestration.”

It is quick, permanent, no problem with toxic chemicals and was traditional, in Bohemia, long ago.

[rlmorel]

[Songcraft]

Goin' Out of My Head
(song link)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL!

[hanamizu]

“Circuit Court Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled...”

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How high in the SC judicial system pecking order is a Circuit Court Judge?

[libertylover]

Hmmm, fatso Nazi Goering actually requested a firing squad before someone sneaked in a pill for him to take.

[roving]

Whatever they gave to my cat when I had her put down is what I would want. She was gone in under 3 seconds

[buckalfa]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Circuit_Court#:~:text=South%20Carolina%27s%2046%20counties%20are%20divided%20into%2016,Chesterfield%2C%20Darlington%2C%20Marlboro.%20Fifth%20Circuit%20%E2%80%93%20Kershaw%2C%20

Between city and county courts but below the state supreme court.

[Nifster]

So just hang ‘em tol dead