Posted on 07/25/2006 3:15:00 PM PDT by Perdogg
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Governor Tim Kaine says the electric chair should not be an option for executions in Virginia.
Kaine was asked Tuesday in his monthly program on Washington Post Radio about last week's electrocution of Brandon Hedrick, the first person to die in the electric chair in two years. Hedrick chose electrocution over lethal injection.
Kaine said Tuesday ... quote ... "I think it should be lethal injection, period." He calls it ... quote ... "an odd quirk" that inmates get to choose the electric chair as an option.
(Excerpt) Read more at wjla.com ...
Kaine has already delayed one death sentance.
family members (and friends) of the victim should be alowed to use small knives on the tied up murderers body...the death of 1000 cuts...and let it get as interesting as those family members want to let it.
I agree with him on this one. Energy has become way too expensive. Medicine is also very expensive so I would support high speed lead poisioning only.
Even if one of my family had been killed by someone, there is NO WAY, I am going to risk my own health by cutting into someone after they have been in prison for any length of time.
The satisfaction would not be worth the risk of HIV infection.
Consider that lead is toxic, and very likely that the blood is likely to be HIGHLY toxic with HIV and Lord only knows what else.
Understand the thought, but I would rather this be a much cleaner process than have a massive blood splatter and bleed out.
OK small arms fire from 25 yards...let us say .22 rimfire shorts...with bullseyes on the knees, elbows, nuts, junk, etc......make it take a while.
How messy would CO asphyxiation be?
Again, lots of HIV infected blood to deal with... no thanks.
CO - Carbon Monoxide is TOXIC and dangerous to the people administering the execution. It is also flammable.
AND, its reusable.
2 each rounds of .45 ACP applied to the head cost about a half a dollar. The gun needed to shoot them can be had for $500 used. One pistol should last over 2000 executions.
...except for corrupt politicians!
Did I miss the part where they said anything about HIV in the story? Throw his ass in the grave first and then shoot him if that is a concern.
A properly performed hanging is not only clean and quick, but a powerful deterrent from would-be criminals seeing the perp twisting in the wind.
LOL.....I hate that commercial! ;-)
The victims of these murdering bas-tds never had the option of choosing their manner of death at the hands of the murderers.
In England, pickpockets were once hung from Tyburn Tree. Other pickpockets would work the crowd.
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