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Death row inmate's lawyers say they'd prefer firing squad over lethal injection
FoxNews.com ^
| December 15, 2016
| AP
Posted on 12/15/2016 1:08:39 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy
A Virginia inmate asked a federal court Wednesday to block the state's plans to execute him next month with lethal injection drugs from a secret compounding pharmacy, suggesting even a firing squad would be more humane.
Attorneys for Ricky Gray said in a federal complaint that there is a serious risk that Virginia will "chemically torture" the man to death when it uses compounded drugs for his execution scheduled for Jan. 18. Although firing squads aren't permitted under Virginia law, his attorneys argue even that method would be a more humane alternative.
"It is both more humane, quicker, more effective, and would frankly be completely feasible in Virginia," Lisa Fried, an attorney for Gray, said of a firing squad. Gray was convicted of killing a well-known family of four, including two young girls, in Richmond on New Year's Day in 2006.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: deathrow; execution; inmates; murderer; virginia
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I have no problem with giving condemned murderers their choice from a list of approved execution methods: lethal injection, firing squad, hanging, the electric chair, or the gas chamber. It would cut down on these last minute appeals claiming that any particular method is cruel and unusual.
To: Bubba_Leroy
So would we. And don’t wait 25 years to do it.
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:09:56 PM PST
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: Bubba_Leroy
I like that. Choose your own method of execution! Guillitine is my personal favorite.
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:10:54 PM PST
by
HotKat
(Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
To: Bubba_Leroy
I have no problem with giving condemned murderers their choice from a list of approved execution methods: lethal injection, firing squad, hanging, the electric chair, or the gas chamber. They could make a game show out of it. "You've chosen death by electric chair. Do you want to keep it, or see what's behind door number 3?"
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:11:06 PM PST
by
fwdude
(Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
To: Bubba_Leroy
It’s a ploy. The lawyer knows full well it will be tied up in court for years.
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:11:09 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: Bubba_Leroy
The family of four not available for comment.
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:11:20 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(( I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Not tired of winning.)
To: Bubba_Leroy
I prefer tying him to a fire ant hill.
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:11:49 PM PST
by
Bullish
To: Bubba_Leroy
Cheap too. At most a 30-06 round is $2. $10 total and he’s gone. The state probably spends thousands on the “cocktail.”
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:11:54 PM PST
by
Organic Panic
(Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
To: SpaceBar
Yup. If granted it would be followed by a suit claiming the FDA had not found the bullets to be “safe and effective”.
To: Bubba_Leroy
Turn of the twentieth century a murderer had around four months before they were hanged. Now it’s decades.
To: Bubba_Leroy
I own a very nice, very accurate, 1903 Springfield, and I live only an 1-1/2 hour drive from Jarrat.
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:13:03 PM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: Bubba_Leroy
On the other hand, I doubt if Gray gave his victims a choice of how they’d have preferred to die.
To: Bubba_Leroy; All
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:14:05 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Bubba_Leroy
I’d be willing to help string him up!
To: Organic Panic
Heck, they’re probably only 50 cents a round at the state contract price.
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:14:16 PM PST
by
WayneS
(An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
To: Bubba_Leroy
Don’t slaughterhouses kill cows quickly? Why not find out how they do it?
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:16:21 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Bubba_Leroy
Why don’t they just buy a bunch of decent Heroin off the streets? I just don’t understand why they seem to want to use designer drugs.
Or just juice them up with a little Heroin, then a bit of cyanide, strychnine or whatever.
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:17:55 PM PST
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: Bubba_Leroy
I have no problem with having him face a firing squad. Let’s give him what he wants.
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:18:04 PM PST
by
pgkdan
(The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
To: SpaceBar
To: Bubba_Leroy
Carbon monoxide is cheap and painless. You just get sleepy.
Then you die.
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posted on
12/15/2016 1:20:40 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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