Horse with no Name
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Thu Jul-07-11 11:23 PM
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Gack. The drug companies aren't making it easy for us to get drugs for lethal injection |
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Instead of becoming enlightened and realizing that there might be an ethical reason for it.
I sincerely hope that we don't revert back to our barbaric firing squads, electric chairs, hangings, etc.
Caught this on Rachel.
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Thu Jul-07-11 11:26 PM
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1. Actually, we can't revert for the most part. |
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Most of those have been struck as "cruel and unusual". Mostly cruel.
We could just...you know...abandon the folly of capital punishment. :shrug:
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Thu Jul-07-11 11:29 PM
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2. Well being that I live in Texas |
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and the DOJ isn't interested in protecting our constitutional rights...I am pretty sure that not much is gonna get in the way of our killing...especially preserving constitutional rights.
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Thu Jul-07-11 11:32 PM
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3. As long as we have horses and rope we could still draw and quarter people |
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Or we could do like most modern civilizations have done and quit frying criminals.
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Fri Jul-08-11 01:08 PM
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4. What? You mean keep barbaric lethal injection? |
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Reverting back to the firing squad would be the best thing, for two reasons: instantaneous death, and the unwillingness of juries to order it. (France kept the guillotine as its method of execution until capital punishment was abolished there for this very reason--polite, modern French citizens won't order someone to be cut in two.) Lethal injection? Oh, he just goes to sleep with a smile on his face and never wakes up, so juries order it readily.
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Sat Jul-09-11 04:26 AM
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6. Multiple states still allow for the use of those other methods. |
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Electric chair: AL, AR*, FL, KY*, SC, TN*, VA Gas chamber: AZ*, CA, MS Hanging: NH, WA Firing Squad: UT*
* Limited to a particular sentencing date or earlier.
In addition, 2 states (OK, WY) have alternates in place if lethal injection is found to be unconstitutional.
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