I had to look in case I was missing some cultural reference to "Pumping Cyanide" (Perhaps some counter-culture metal band?) and all I found was this:
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 ...
And a guillotine is actually quite merciful, just like double-tapping the head and the heart simultaneously. A brief instant of agony, and it’s over.
Plus, with the guillotine, the head, deposited neatly in a basket or bucket, can be shown on the tee vee for Low-IQ individuals considering doing something heinous.
State legislatures in states with capital punishment need to have an alternative means on the books of the firing squad.
It is inexpensive, readily available, requires no special expertise, is very effective, and can be used as a ‘default’ in case their preferred means of execution is blocked.
It is also very hard to challenge on appeal.
Thank you Mr. Garabaldi.
I like putting them on spikes and displaying them prominently in some public place.
Or you could use automated machine guns, like in Thailand.
It could be kind of messy to clean up afterwards, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c3WIL4JSAU
LOL
That’s right
Let’s not have any anti-French bigotry.
Actually hanging is highly technical.
The US Army had a very exhaustive manual on the subject detailing the length of the drop depending on the height and weight of the subject. The placement of the noose and not.
If you got it wrong you could decapitate or slowly strangle the victim.
Would not want that afro to catch fire.
Interesting, thanks!
You make a very valid point.
Executions in the USA in 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offenders_executed_in_the_United_States_in_2017
I had to look in case I was missing some cultural reference to "Pumping Cyanide" (Perhaps some counter-culture metal band?) and all I found was this:
The seat the inmate sits on has a bucket of acid under it. @ execution time sodium cyanide is dropped into the acid. That’s where it is introduced. Vent the chamber afterward, probably causes global warming. Your statement of pumping the chamber full just made me laugh for some reason.
No, that’s the LONG drop, not the Standard.
Still requires some skill but not as potentially nasty as the Long.
Ahh. Not knowing the process, I assumed it was something akin to what the Nazis did...now I understand...thanks for explaining it!
When you posted it, it made me feel like the time I was working with an attractive gal from Australia, and I we were moving a patient, and I asked her to slide her fanny a little to the side, and the Australian gal across from me turned beet red and touched all the fingers of her hand to her mouth...I said “What? What...did I say something?” She told me later that “fanny” in Australia has a different meaning there than it does in the USA...:)
But it was that “What? What did I say?” feeling!
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