The argument over whether electrocution or lethal injection is painless is ridicules. Either method will involve some amount of pain. I'd say that if we wanted truly painless executions we'd switch to a single executioner shooting them in the back of the head at close range with a large caliber hollow-point bullet. We choose these funky methods of execution for the benefit of the witnesses, not the condemned.
I cannot imagine lethal injection would be more painful than electrocution. Besides-this guy caused lots of pain to others so why are people so unhappy about his demise, especially since he clearly wants it?
"In Virginia and nine other states, inmates can choose between electrocution and lethal injection."
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Completely false. There are not ten states that authorize the use of the electric chair as an "option" for the inmate. There are ten states that formerly held that electrocution be the sole method in place, post 1982.
Some states technically authorize its use by default, should the current and sole means ever be ruled unconstitutional. Oklahoma is one of them. As for inmate "choice": GA, AL, FLA, S.C., KY and TN all DO permit an option, but it is NOT a choice ALL death row inmates in those five states are currently permitted to make.
Kentucky and S.C., like Florida and Virginia, allow outright choice, no others. Georgia only allows inmates to choose if their crime predates 5/2000, and in TN, all inmates convicted after 1999 are subjected to injection. For convictions prior to that, electrocution is MANDATORY absent a specific request, duly filed and made in time, for injection.
Arkansas, Nebraska and Louisiana are the only remaining states that still have active legislation permitting the use of the electric chair as an alternative to whatever the current and legal method that exists which is legally in place. But only Arkansas has clear laws on this, as Nebraska and Louisiana's laws are somewhat unclear, as to the permissibility of inmate choice, and the constitutionality of this prior used method.
I think that the use of the electric chair is a form of cruel and unusual punishment. The death is not painless. The spurs placed on top of the head and legs does not give the current a means of traveling strait through the body. The first electric shock travels mainly through the arteries and blood vessels with the highest amount of saline content. Why does the state of Virginia still use the electric invention of Thomas Edison? David
You know this HOW? someone come back and told you? and his victims Suffered NO pain? he got a choice his victims never did all murders are cruel and unusual only the criminal gets to plead it, victims never do get a "Do over appeal " sane or insane hearing troubled childhood drug and alcohol abuse just Cruel and unusual death. Also Thomas Edison used DC current(battery) Westinghouse used AC, Edison demostrated the Killing power of AC in order to promote dc -never advocated it's use as a death penalty
I always thought death row existed as a row of cells away from the general prison population because those condemned to die were the most dangerous... they have nothing to lose. It doesn't make sense that the prison must execute a death row inmate because he will continue killing others if they don't. That's why he's on death row -- to prevent him from killing others.
Virginia once had a case where attorneys said an inmate couldn't be executed until he was sane enough to understand his punishment, the inmate refused his medication, and the prosecutors asked the court for permission to medicate him against his will so he could be made sane enough to execute. I always liked that one.
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Completely false. There are not ten states that authorize the use of the electric chair as an "option" for the inmate. There are ten states that formerly held that electrocution be the sole method in place, post 1982.
Some states technically authorize its use by default, should the current and sole means ever be ruled unconstitutional. Oklahoma is one of them. As for inmate "choice": GA, AL, FLA, S.C., KY and TN all DO permit an option, but it is NOT a choice ALL death row inmates in those five states are currently permitted to make.
Kentucky and S.C., like Florida and Virginia, allow outright choice, no others. Georgia only allows inmates to choose if their crime predates 5/2000, and in TN, all inmates convicted after 1999 are subjected to injection. For convictions prior to that, electrocution is MANDATORY absent a specific request, duly filed and made in time, for injection.
Arkansas, Nebraska and Louisiana are the only remaining states that still have active legislation permitting the use of the electric chair as an alternative to whatever the current and legal method that exists which is legally in place. But only Arkansas has clear laws on this, as Nebraska and Louisiana's laws are somewhat unclear, as to the permissibility of inmate choice, and the constitutionality of this prior used method.
Correction: "Seven" states, not five (Alabama is currently also an outright choice state, and I forgot to mention VA in that paragraph).
all murders are cruel and unusual only the criminal gets to plead it, victims never do get a "Do over appeal " sane or insane hearing troubled childhood drug and alcohol abuse just Cruel and unusual death. Also Thomas Edison used DC current(battery) Westinghouse used AC, Edison demostrated the Killing power of AC
in order to promote dc -never advocated it's use as a death penalty
mind you topping the git dose not seem a bad choice either.
Should have given him lethal injection just because he wanted the electric chair.
Virginia once had a case where attorneys said an inmate couldn't be executed until he was sane enough to understand his punishment, the inmate refused his medication, and the prosecutors asked the court for permission to medicate him against his will so he could be made sane enough to execute. I always liked that one.