States consider reviving old-fashioned executions

AP via Breitbart ^ | 28 Jan 2014

[elcid1970]

String ‘em up just far enough so the condemned is dancing lightly on his tippy-toes. Then be sure you have a corner on popcorn sales. Sales should be brisk.

[Arrowhead1952]

Hanging. Snap. Over.

Big plus, the rope can be used more than once.

[Spartan79]

Most states abandoned those execution methods more than a generation ago in a bid to make capital punishment more palatable to the public and to a judicial system worried about inflicting cruel and unusual punishments that violate the Constitution.

it needs to be stressed, again and again, that the constitution does not proscribe cruel punishments, nor does it ban unusual punishments. The constitution bans cruel and unusual punishments. You could burn convicted murderers at the stake in the public square and not violate the plain meaning of the Constitution, as long as you burned all convicted murderers at the stake in the public square.

[bfh333]

For all capital cases where the death penalty is being sought, an appeals court judge should sit in the trial while it’s being conducted... After the trial is over, both sides have 90 days to appeal... If the defense can’t make their case in 90 days, then on the 91st day the convicted is put to death...

I’m a fan of “old sparky”...

[JimRed]

There will just be no way to enforce it.

Do like the old Soviet Union in Lubyanka (sp?). While condemned is being taken to or from his cell, executioner steps up behind him, pistol to skull. BOOM! Done! Cleanup in hall 3...

[Salvavida]

In most cases, it's the appeals court that cannot hear the case in time. There would have to be time constraints on both sides. I like your 90 day suggestion. I would add on the back end, that the entire appeals process must be concluded 6 months after a defense appeal is filed. Hire more appeals judges: and they must be ELECTED. The Supreme Court shouldn't hear or have jurisdiction on single cases decided in the state.

I'm good with sparky, but electricity cost money. Rope is cheap, reusable, and works wonders for spinal realignment.