Posted on 05/22/2014 7:06:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Tennessee has decided to bring back the electric chair.
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam on Thursday signed a bill into law allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event the state is unable to obtain drugs used for lethal injections. […]
Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Tennessee is the first state to enact a law to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option. …
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Pepperoni and sausage?
Now just a dang minute! I'm not gettin' sent off in no Chinese electric chair! I mean, the instructions alone: "To the calf the silver globe affix strap with the harmonious enthusiasm be careful not to tighten the fixture more than five or else the results. User must call customer support for an RMA before sending back for refund or replacement."
I guess it could be worse than Chinese. Anyone who's ever owned a British sports car must shudder at the dread name of Lucas Electric. And the contract will be awarded to the lowest bidder. Crikey.
I have several times seen movie clips of the German “Werewolves” caught during the Battle of the Bulge. They were tied to a stake and shot by a firing squad.
I was surprised to see them immediately hang limp. It appears they did not suffer at all, just immediately died.
Yup; death by bullet isn’t like how Hollyweird portrays it, with the actor dancing around for five seconds.
I sort of liked the way the aliens died in the old TV series “The Invaders”. They would be shot, immediately die then suddenly burn up to nothing but a dark spot on the ground.
good for them.
I don’t live in TN, but I’d darn sure turn out my lights if I did, just to be sure they had enough juice to fry the ba$tard.
There's the real problem. It's too hard to carry out the sentence, by any method.
For later.
OTOH, that made it hard for David Vincent to prove there actually were any Invaders.
Yeah since they had changed their outward appearance they probably had to do something so there would be no bodies left for autopsy.
I think they explained in one episode that their souls returned to their home planet. Maybe not but I saw that somewhere.
Only do the executions on “Earth Day”.
I don’t recall about their souls, but IIRC the little finger on one hand was stiff, which was something of a giveaway.
Nitrogen asphyxiation would do the trick, and the condemned wouldn't have a clue what hit him.
I believe you're right. I've touched electric fences several times in the past, and there's always a lag in time before the sensation registers. However, the thought of being electrocuted to death isn't a pleasant one.
I had forgotten about that. Some of their little pinkys would stick out to the side.
Don't forget a few feral cats.
Tennessee has 74 prisoners on death row. ... [S]ince 2000 ... [s]ix inmates have been executed during that time frame, the most recent in 2010.
There’s the real problem. It’s too hard to carry out the sentence, by any method.
We tried to execute a death row inmate 3 years ago. He and another fellow raped and murdered a mother and daughter about 20 years ago. He admitted doing it.
About an hour before he was supposed to get the injection the Supreme Court issued a halt to the execution. It seems his lawyers discovered that his lethal dose had passed the expiration date. The libs argued that giving him an expired shot would be cruel and unusual. So the execution was called off.
What was he going to get? A bad rash to go with his death?
Tennessee didn’t have any spare poison and couldn’t get any. Nobody wants to sell the stuff because the libs give the manufacturers pure hell. And Texas needs all it has on hand. But our crafty Republican governor saw a way around that progressive nonsense.
I’l bet the rapist/murderer is the first to Dance with the Devil when Sparky gets fired up.
Scaffold, proper noose, proper drop. That's the most instant way to go. Probably not even firing squad matches hanging.
Hope so!
I applaud Tennessee for fixing the means of execution (not that it needed any fixing IMHO!). Unfortunately the other delays are a lot harder to fix.
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