Posted on 10/13/2011 3:43:22 PM PDT by greatdefender
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida state lawmaker is calling for a return to the electric chair and firing squads for those sitting on the state's death row.
Rep. Brad Drake, R-Eucheeanna, this week filed a bill that would end the use of lethal injection. Instead, those with a death sentence could choose between electrocution or a firing squad.
Drake said the idea came to him after having a conversation at a DeFuniak Springs Waffle House over the legal battles associated with the September execution of Manuel Valle.
Valle's lawyers tried to stop the execution by arguing that a new drug cocktail would cause him pain and therefore be cruel and unusual punishment.
Florida switched to lethal injection after problems with electrocutions raised concerns that the state's death penalty would be declared unconstitutional.
Go classic — trapdoor and noose.
Am I being too harsh? Sure would beat listening to Madonna during the half-time Super Bowl . . . but that's another story.
This is a canard. The constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. It does not guarantee a painless execution.
How about a piece of lead between the eyes?
Don’t we have high enough unemployment as it is?
It may ban unusual punishment, it doesn’t ban unique punishments.
Now we can have some fun.
I always thought that if I were in that situation, I’d go Breaker Morant. I like that style.
Then, I saw that video of the whale being blown up on the beach, and thought WOW ! If I were gonna go, that would be cool !
IMO, that’s the smorgasbord I’d offer the perps....”How would you like to go, madame ?”
(drones cost extra)
A good ole honey and fireant stake down?
I do not oppose capital punishment per se. It is the only punishment appropriate in some cases. However, unless it becomes possible to be 100% sure that a given man is guilty of a capital crime, I oppose making him 100% dead. Too many innocent men go to prison every year.
For this reason I would reserve capital punishment to those cases in which the accused enters a plea of guilty, or cases in which guilt is obvious (e.g., a mass murder with multiple witnesses).
Drake said the idea came to him after having a conversation at a DeFuniak Springs Waffle House over the legal battles associated with the September execution of Manuel Valle.
Ah the discussions you can have at a Waffle House over some Pecan Waffles and Hash Browns.........In a booth at Waffle House or on the Throne would be where I do my best thinking! LOL
Eat expanding foam until they explode.
I vote for that pneumatic spike thingy they use to kill cows at the slaughter house. I think the bad guy in “no country for old men” used one.
The libs already gave us the answer with the Schiavo case— let them starve to death. It’s EUPHORIC !
It is Florida. Why not feed them to sharks?
Why no on electrocution? While waiting for ventricular fibrillation to kick in they get to sizzle for a little bit. If they’ve murdered someone innocent, I don’t really see the problem.
Firing squads are a worthy goal to shoot for.
I miss “Ole Sparky”. Bring it back.
When I was a kid in 1940s NYC, one time they came around with a long truck that had an electric chair “just like at Sing Sing” in the middle of the floor.
Each one of us had to come in and sit down in it. Scared the crap out of one and all.
Can you imagine that happening today? Trauma! Hysteria! Offended Feelings! Dogs Living With Cats!
“...trapdoor and noose...”
...on the courthouse steps at high noon!
God’s law allows killing an aggressor to prevent him from doing harm. A person who has committed a capital crime is an aggressor, an enemy soldier in an army of one, a soldier who has made war on society. As such, he may be legally killed in defense of society. He is a casualty of war.
And in war, we Americans do not torture enemy soldiers. We may kill them, but we do not torture them. When we must kill, we kill dispassionately, as one might kill a germ or a dangerous animal, but we do not make our enemies suffer for the sake of watching them suffer. The tradition of the American defender of home and hearth is to give our enemies a “clean”, quick death whenever possible. In capital cases, the rope and the bullet allow us to do so.
The electric chair, however, does not provide a “clean”, instant death. It often takes minutes to kill its occupant, minutes spent in agonizing pain. It may be that a given criminal deserves such pain, but vengeance is God’s job, not ours. Our sole moral duty is to eliminate a threat to society, not to exact revenge, and that is all that we may morally do.
In my opinion, the electric chair is an instrument of torture. It should not be used to kill condemned men when alternatives exist.
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