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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on January 06, 2008, 07:01:45 PM
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WASHINGTON — At 8:23 p.m. local time on Sept. 25, 2007, Michael Richard was pronounced dead inside the execution chamber at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville. The United States hasn't held an execution since.
Just a few days after Richard's death, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear a challenge to the way executions like Richard's are carried out. That case will be heard Monday.
The hearing will weigh whether the nearly universal three-chemical mix used to execute condemned prisoners is constitutional. The court's decision could determine whether a de facto moratorium on the death penalty continues.
Since the court announced it would take the case, it has intervened several times to grant last-minute stays. States across the country have followed suit.
Monday's arguments in front of the high court is the most significant death penalty case in years. The issue presented does not address the constitutionality of the death penalty itself, but rather the method by which nearly all executions in the U.S. are currently performed.
The case, Baze v. Rees, comes out of Kentucky, which is one of 36 states that provides for capital punishment as its most severe criminal sentence. New Jersey's governor last month signed legislation prohibiting the death penalty, and the state has since cleared its death row, returning prisoners to general lock-up.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,320527,00.html
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What ever happened to hangin'?
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What ever happened to hangin'?
Apparently it offends convicted criminals and liberals.
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Interesting. I wonder if this would mean a change in the type of cocktail they use to execute or the end of the death penalty all together.
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What ever happened to hangin'?
Apparently it offends convicted criminals and liberals.
That's crap.
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Well if they don't like the needle...I'm all for returing to the Electric Chair...firing squad...hanging.
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Well if they don't like the needle...I'm all for returing to the Electric Chair...firing squad...hanging.
Bring back Ol' Sparky!
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What about starving them to death? Weren't we told it causes "euphoria"? :whatever:
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What about starving them to death? Weren't we told it causes "euphoria"? :whatever:
:werd:
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Well if they don't like the needle...I'm all for returing to the Electric Chair...firing squad...hanging.
Bring back Ol' Sparky!
Just make sure you've got a can of this:
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Or This:
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Before you hit the switch.
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this is why elections matter. The next POTUS will probably have to fill some vacant seats on the Court. Oy!!!
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this is why elections matter. The next POTUS will probably have to fill some vacant seats on the Court. Oy!!!
Probably? I can practically promise you two will retire immediately if a democrat cheats his or her way into the White House. They are barely hanging on by a thread now.
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yeah, I'm being generous aren't I?
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it is alleged that it is "too painful". wouldn't someone have to survive before you could ask them if it hurt? ::)
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it is alleged that it is "too painful". wouldn't someone have to survive before you could ask them if it hurt? ::)
Or you could ask anyone who had major surgery how much they remember about being on the operating table. Same thing.
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What ever happened to hangin'?
It was good enough for Saddam!
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it is alleged that it is "too painful". wouldn't someone have to survive before you could ask them if it hurt? ::)
Or you could ask anyone who had major surgery how much they remember about being on the operating table. Same thing.
well, maybe slightly different. the person recovering from surgery has a 1 in a million chance of remembering something. the person that just had lethal injection, uh, doesn't.