Tennessee prepares to execute Philip Workman

AP via Commercial Appeal ^ | 5/8/7 | Rose French

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

No, I was referring to the movie, "His Gal Friday", 1940 movie, with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. The prisoner was portrayed as a poor schmuck, very dimwitted, who killed a "color police officer". I thought it was notably modern for its inclusion of racial politics.

Of course, Hildy and Walter Burns of The Morning Post expose the lousy low politics and corruption behind his execution and have his sentence commuted to life in prison. The politics is schmatzly, the characters kinda cute. Best line (by Walter Burns): "The last man that said that to me was Archie Leach, just a week before I cut his throat"

[Young Scholar]

The poor shmuck killed a “colored police officer”...

Sounds like a good reason to execute him to me. Do you disagree?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I vote for drawn and quartered.

[Kitty Mittens]

Step 1.-Insert needle. Step 2.-Plug in Chair.
Step 3.-.....

I Like it!

[jerri]

He should be grateful that he isn’t disabled. If he was they could starve him to death.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Not it the least. See #20. Funny movie, silly politics.

[Still Thinking]

Talk about terminated with extreme prejudice!

With all the whimpering about this being cruel and unusual, I don't know why they don't just give the guy enough hydal or heroin to kill a horse. I don't care if he goes out high, and it would put an end to all the whining.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Take him out back and pop a round in his head. Simple.

Reminds me of the story of two former death camp inmates who had got a hold of one of the former SS Guards. They happened upon an young U.S. officer. They asked if they could borrow his sidearm. He accommodated them, lending his .45. They took the former SS man around the corner, a shot rang out. The two former inmates returned, sans guard. They returned the officer's sidearm, and politely thanked him.

Rough justice, but justice truly.

[Redleg Duke]

Twenty-six stinking years? So much for swift justice!

[CurlyQ]

Say hello to Saddam.

[Still Thinking]

And actually fairly merciful, unless they simply shot him once in the groin or stomach, given how people were treated in those camps.

[CrappieLuck]

“Are the drugs causing unnecessary pain? “

When did “Cruel and unusual punishment come to simply mean “Pain”.

I have found nothing in the Bill of Rights that says pain should be avoided.
In fact, the twisted thought that thugs should be afforded a painless existence or death makes me ill.

We hung people for hundreds of years after the Bill of rights was ratified.
We shot them, we decapitated them and we electrocuted them.
Now simply giving them a Lunesta is deemed “unfair”.

I’d be fine if they just pushed him off the roof.

[sticker]

If we can get this done, maybe the state can clean out the rest of death row, starting with Reid

[Joe 6-pack]

That struck me as well when I read this...his brother’s just as stupid as he is.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I know it’s unchristian of me to think this, but it would be hard to conceive of any punishment too cruel for those bastards.

Growing up, my best friend’s father, who was there from D-Day+2 until VE Day (including with Patton at the Bulge and the liberation of Dachau) said that after Malmady, if they captured an SS-man they gave him three seconds to run before they opened up on him. If a German soldier surrendered with an empty clip, same treatment. (They got sick of Krauts taking potshots at them until they ran out of ammo.)

[Diver Dave]

To solve this “dilemma” regarding lethal injection, simply use the execution method soundly approved by the ACLU, Left-Wing, Dems, etc. - stick a scissors in the base of his skull and suck out his brains.

[SmithL]

...and Tookie.

[Still Thinking]

Or just don’t give him any food or water till he eventually dies. The lefties seem to think that’s just hunky dory.

[SittinYonder]

Thanks for explaining it.

[Still Thinking]

I watched it on TV just the other day.