Posted on 07/31/2018 1:44:43 PM PDT by BBell
Are Louisiana lawmakers ready to bring back the gas chamber, hanging, firing squad or electrocution as options for carrying out the state's death penalty?
Attorney General Jeff Landry says he will push for those changes if Louisiana can't figure out how to get its lethal injection protocols back on track. Executions in the state are on hold and will be for at least another year as part of a legal battle and efforts to find a drug manufacturer or pharmacy that will sell them the products needed to carry out executions. Louisiana hasn't put a prisoner to death since 2010 when Gerald Bordelon waived all his rights to appeal.
Landry has accused Gov. John Bel Edwards of dragging his feet on the speed of executions, noting that other states have managed to put bodies on the gurneys, noting that Texas has carried out seven executions in the first six months of this year and that Arkansas had managed two in just one day.
While avoiding a direct statement on where he stands on the death penalty, Edwards has denied being the reason for the delays and challenged Landry on why the attorney general had not pushed changes to the state law on his own. That's when Landry released his draft of death penalty legislation.
Landry is also pushing for changes that would allow the pharmacy at Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola, to mix its own execution cocktail and keep the formula secret to avoid lawsuits from the pharmaceutical companies that are now withholding their drugs for use in executions.
The primary reason for execution delays across the country is being caused by drug manufacturers who don't want their products associated with putting people to death.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Why deny the convict food and water until death? We were told that was such a dignified way for Terry Schiavo to die.
If the go back to the rope they are no longer hostage to the injection chemical providers.
Since Louisiana is governed by the Napoleonic Code, they should have the guillotine.
Yes they should! It’s fast and certain.
LOL! I’d be none the wiser.
I have never understood why they don’t convert those gas chambers into nitrogen chambers.
Instead of pumping cyanide or whatever the hell else they put into them, why don’t they just pump pure gaseous nitrogen in?
Quick. Painless. Cheap. Environmentally safe (you could probably just open a valve and release it to the environment.
Better yet, just put the criminal’s head into a full face rebreathing device and pump it full of nitrogen. You don’t need to fill an entire room.
Yes, I didn’t see your post. I agree.
Alfred Jodl was hung at Nuremburg, despite his request for a firing squad as would befit a military man. Anyone who doesn't want to be shot can be reminded that they're being afforded an honor denied to a superior-general.
Bleachers. We need electric bleachers.
I’d like for the authorities to consider death by “drug overdose”.
In the first place, that might dim some of the “cool” of taking drugs among the snowflakes.
In the second place, it would dispose of a small portion of the ever-growing supply of drugs seized by the police.
And third, all the quasi-legal arguments against “cruel and unusual punishment” would be eliminated, since thousands of dummies CHOOSE to “over-dose” — at their own expense!
Hey, look what I found, a liberal article on bringing the guillotine to Louisiana:
A revolver with one in the chamber. Spin the chamber, put the barrel to the punks head and slowly pull the trigger. Click..........................click............click......... that alone would be cruel and inhuman. Price you pay for being a dick in society.
Wow, this sounds like a debate worth having!
Personally I’d love to see hanging again. It’s easy to set up and people can witness it easily. Would be good to have it more public - maybe more deterrent and also maybe people would start “picking sides” booing the victim and such (much like stocks did).
But if people are worried about “humanity”, why not the gas chamber? Can’t get better than that, knocked out just by breathing like laughing gas. Better than the needle.
Because they admire Moslem methods.
Of course, this is also what the French did...proves how debased communist (which is what the French Rev really ushered in) types can be.
Not always “intact”.
“Standard” is fine.
Another thing that needs to be brought back for minor crimes is the whipping post and Cat-O-Nine-Tails.
Danger of shooting something else.
Waste of ammo.
No, just the shaming stocks. They’re great. Shame is a great thing.
Public hangings would be best. Setting an example for the rest of the population, in case they’re thinking of doing something heinous.
Drug companies are apparently run by liberal corporate scum. If Louisiana starts soliciting private citizens for lethal cocktails, I have some drain cleaner, some lysol, etc. that I could give to them for free!
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