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US states may go back to electric chair and firing squads
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Posted on 05/01/2014 11:56:15 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

US states may go back to electric chair and firing squads

Shortage of drugs for lethal injections leads states to consider alternative methods of executing prisoners

By Raf Sanchez, Washington

6:42PM BST 01 May 2014

US states may revert to killing their death row inmates with electric chairs, firing squads and gas chambers as it becomes increasingly difficult to source chemicals for lethal injections.

The EU has banned the export of one of the most common sedatives used in lethal injections, forcing US states to experiment with new "cocktails" of drugs for executions.

One such experimental recipe was used in the botched execution of an Oklahoma prisoner on Tuesday, leaving him to writhe in pain and die of a massive heart attack 43 minutes after being injected.

The shortage of execution drugs, coupled with fears the courts may intervene to ban experimental methods of lethal injection, have prompted states to look at alternative ways to kill prisoners.

Tennessee's legislature has passed a bill that would reintroduce the electric chair if the state was unable to find drugs for lethal injections.

The state's Republican governor is still weighing whether to sign it into law.

Missouri is considering a proposal to reintroduce both firing squads and gas chambers if it becomes impossible to carry out a lethal injection.

Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Centre, said the laws were intended as symbols by conservative politicians of their commitment to the death penalty.

"It's about being even more blatant than the anti-death penalty side. To see this as a rational process is to miss the harshly divisive political atmosphere that produces these things," he said.

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hang them in public and get it over with!


141 posted on 05/01/2014 2:28:19 PM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Acme would have been my first choice as well. Ideally suited for the most heinous felon, the various near fatal actions would provide for plenty of false hope, not to mention endless amusement as well as revenue when broadcast PPV. A suitable final send off would be the casting into a pit filled with starving Canadian Grey wolves accompanied by a rousing chorus of National Park Rangers singing, “ Don’t worry, be happy, there’re no recorded wolf attacks on record.”


142 posted on 05/01/2014 2:35:33 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Sub-Driver

I must be missing something basic. Maybe there’s a Freeper medical professional who can answer this:

Couldn’t the lethal injection be done with an opiate? If so, wouldn’t it be painless? It seems to me (as a layman) that an intentional overdose of heroin or morphine would work.


143 posted on 05/01/2014 2:37:03 PM PDT by 04-Bravo
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To: PapaNew
Yes, Jesus died for the sins of all criminals but unless they repent and accept Him as Lord, they are still in their sins. Besides, this refers only to the spiritual side. Accepting Christ does not exempt you from the physical consequences of your sin.

“Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed;
For in the image of God
He made man.
(Gen. 9:6)

144 posted on 05/01/2014 2:39:22 PM PDT by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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To: gdani

The government can’t kill people it wants to kill, kills people it shouldn’t kill, and can’t even run a whorehouse in Nevada.

Better give them power over the health insurance industry... Oh wait.


145 posted on 05/01/2014 2:42:10 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Former Fetus
As far as the state is concerned, that crime has already been paid for. So punishment for the same crime is unjust because it is double jeopardy.

As far as that person receiving Jesus, that is really between him and the Lord, not the state.

146 posted on 05/01/2014 2:48:28 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew
As far as the state is concerned, that crime has already been paid for.

What has already been paid for is our "debt" to God. Like I said, that does not mean you don't have to suffer the physical consequences of your sin.

I think you are confusing spiritual death, or the second death, meaning hell for eternity and physical death, the first death, that relates to our bodies.

Like some other poster quoted, "But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil" (Ro. 13:4).

147 posted on 05/01/2014 3:10:14 PM PDT by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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To: Former Fetus

Of course, civil law is necessary, but I argue against “punishment” as a justification for CP and believe the effort should be towards protecting society.


148 posted on 05/01/2014 3:12:48 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Sub-Driver
Rope, tire tool, baseball bat,.38,.45,9mm, tow sack and a river etc. etc. etc. !!!
149 posted on 05/01/2014 3:14:58 PM PDT by ontap
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To: PapaNew

Have you thought that bleeding heart liberals like you are the reason this execution was botched and the prisoner suffered? Drug companies are afraid of being openly involved with executions, probably concerned about boycotts, so they refuse to sell the drugs that enabled the states to kill painlessly.


150 posted on 05/01/2014 3:19:14 PM PDT by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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To: jsanders2001

you’re off to good start


151 posted on 05/01/2014 3:20:00 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: PapaNew
IMO, civil law should be about protecting society from dangerous criminals by incarceration, not about "punishment."

You're certainly entitled, but it is called a penal system.

152 posted on 05/01/2014 3:21:43 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: jimt
I think it's about retribution, not vengeance. And I'm fine with that.

I don't understand how DNA is used to free innocent people from 'death row' in a matter of weeks, but on the flip side, DNA is never good enough to execute someone in a manner of years.

How about 3 appeals or 5 years, whichever comes first?

153 posted on 05/01/2014 3:26:42 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Texan5
Turning them over to the victim’s family would probably be the fairest and best choice,

Except in the case of "honor killings", where it was the family that ordered the killing.

154 posted on 05/01/2014 3:26:51 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Sub-Driver

How about putting a plastic bag over their heads?


155 posted on 05/01/2014 3:38:59 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: luvbach1
penal system

Got me there.

156 posted on 05/01/2014 3:39:35 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew

Thank you. I don’t agree with your reasoning but at least understand your point of view better.


157 posted on 05/01/2014 5:11:04 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: PapaNew

Crime is not sin. It is a mistake to equate them I think.

Do you think of all crimes as not deserving punishment, or just capital crimes?


158 posted on 05/01/2014 5:19:57 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Crime is sin in the eyes of God, unless it is a crime defined by man which opposes the law of God.


159 posted on 05/01/2014 5:26:15 PM PDT by evangmlw
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To: PapaNew

Executing murderers and rapists IS the right thing.


160 posted on 05/01/2014 5:30:28 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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