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South Carolina wants to bring back electric chair and firing squads – says ‘painless’ death not mandated
NY Post ^ | 2/06/24 | Alyssa Guzman

Posted on 02/06/2024 3:29:23 PM PST by Libloather

South Carolina wants to bring back the firing squad and the electric chair as the state argues that “painless” deaths are not mandated.

Among the 33 prisoners on death row in the Palmetto State, four inmates are arguing that the electric chair and firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. The inmates also claim a 2023 law that allows lethal injections is too secretive about many details of the new drug.

However, the governor of the Palmetto State disagrees, saying all three methods fit the existing protocol and painless executions are not mandated by law.

“Courts have never held the death has to be instantaneous or painless,” wrote Grayson Lambert, a lawyer for Gov. Henry McMaster’s office.

Currently, the electric chair serves as South Carolina’s secondary option if lethal injection doesn’t work. Lawmakers added the firing squad to the list of options in 2021.

In September, the state changed its lethal injection method to using the sedative pentobarbital, meaning inmates would only need one injection instead of three. Very little is known about the new drug and prison officials have only said the method is similar to the protocol followed by the federal government and six other states.

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To: Libloather

Nothing indicates a painless or stressless death. Hemp rope still works. It just needs to be used within two months of the “Guilty” verdict.

Ecclesiastes 8:11 When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

All persons in the past who killed a President got the noose within two months after the sentence.


21 posted on 02/06/2024 4:06:10 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Libloather
My husband and I were talking about the death penalty issue when they executed the Alabama guy. To me, a bullet in the head (and maybe heart, too, just to be sure) seems the LEAST cruel and LEAST painful of any method. I mean, there's no potential of anybody having an allergy, or a strong immune system that would cause them to "fight off" the drug for long periods of time, causing them extended pain. Not to mention the low cost. Just stand the guy up in a room, have laser-guided guns pointed at all the lethal points, and DONE. At most there would be a few seconds of anxiety, and then....

Am I wrong?

22 posted on 02/06/2024 4:08:07 PM PST by workerbee (==)
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To: Libloather

If they insist on death being painless I suggest the criminal be held under water for 30 minutes.


23 posted on 02/06/2024 4:08:19 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: PGalt

You are correct.


24 posted on 02/06/2024 4:13:07 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Or we could bring back the guillotine.


25 posted on 02/06/2024 4:15:01 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: PeterPrinciple

you are comparing what is unusual over different centuries.

The point in question is whether to make the death sentence more painful. You say yes, I say no. Your position will lose in any court in the US and with a majority of citizens with IQs over 70.


26 posted on 02/06/2024 4:35:42 PM PST by coalminersson (since )
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To: PeterPrinciple

I believe that after a irrefutable conviction and exhausting of appeals, the murder should be executed in a manor that approximates what his/her victim experienced.


27 posted on 02/06/2024 4:48:39 PM PST by sjmjax
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To: Libloather

Executing a SOB that murdered people in almost all ways is neither cruel, nor unusual.
Personally, hanging is cheap and reusable; or bullets are cheap


28 posted on 02/06/2024 4:50:22 PM PST by vpintheak (Pinko misanthrope)
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To: Libloather

Bullets are cheaper and quicker.


29 posted on 02/06/2024 4:58:07 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures a)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Carbon neutral too.


30 posted on 02/06/2024 5:09:09 PM PST by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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To: Libloather

About time.


31 posted on 02/06/2024 5:21:25 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Libloather
“Courts have never held the death has to be instantaneous or painless,” wrote Grayson Lambert, a lawyer for Gov. Henry McMaster’s office.

It isn't for the murder victim.

No sympathy for the murderer.

32 posted on 02/06/2024 5:22:17 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Libloather

Good ideas.


33 posted on 02/06/2024 5:24:23 PM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: Libloather

If I were put to death, I would choose firing squad. Guillotine would be better.


34 posted on 02/06/2024 5:28:03 PM PST by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: Salvavida

What does everyone have against ROPE??”

Rope, plus a weighted drop into deep water?


35 posted on 02/06/2024 6:26:04 PM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦..."Christian-Nationalists" won WWII...Biden NOT NEXT DNC nominee!)
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To: Libloather

Hanging and firing squad are the LEAST painful.Death is instantaneous.Same with the guillotine except there is a clear post death consciousness of the severed head.

All of the rest of the so called modern executions by drug, electricty,gas , etc, all take many seconds to minutes.....an eternnity when a human is dying.

BUt the left as usual goes by outward appearances and politica correctness,and the methods they aspire instead of being less cruel are the cruelest possible,. but they “look good.”

I am also in favor of public executions. Such crininlas should not be allowed a right ofprivacy in death because the state loses the deterrent effect. Let the would be criminals see what their destiny will be for murder and also for raping a child , or conducting a partial birth abortion( yes these should carry a death penalty.)

I also would like to make suicide a possiblity instead of an execution. That way they relieve anyone for having to bear the trauma of being an executioner.Let then take their own life in any manner of their choosing, and if they fail hang em.

Now, off to a lighter activity: beer, a hockey game and a wee snog.


36 posted on 02/06/2024 6:30:04 PM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Lawyers. What else? Responsible for more f ckery than can be known.

There is a prohibition on “Cruel & Unusual” punishments.

A strict reading of that, cruel is OK. Unusual is OK too. Just not both!


37 posted on 02/06/2024 7:01:18 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: Libloather
They missed out on trying it out on Alex Murdaugh.
38 posted on 02/06/2024 11:33:47 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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