Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on May 8, 2021 20:04:38 GMT -5
South Carolina may bring back electric chair, once used to execute a 14-year-old boy later exonerated
Barely 5 feet tall and not yet 100 pounds, George Stinney Jr. sat so small in the electric chair that the straps were too big to contain him. The 14-year-old had to sit on books for his head to reach the headpiece. And when the switch was flipped, the convulsions knocked down the large mask, exposing his tearful face to the crowd.  That was June 16, 1944. Seventy years after his execution by electric chair, George was exonerated of the crime that ended his brief life. Now, lawmakers in South Carolina have passed a bill to bring back this gruesome method of execution. A provision in the new bill would also allow death-row inmates to choose execution by firing squad. The state has not executed anyone in a decade because of a shortage of lethal injection drugs; the current law allows death-row inmates to choose between lethal injection and electrocution; since there are no drugs, the inmates choose lethal injection. The bill is expected to pass routine procedural votes before it heads to Gov. Henry McMaster’s desk. McMaster (R) has expressed support for the measure. Complete article here: link
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djAdvocate
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Post by djAdvocate on May 8, 2021 20:09:54 GMT -5
firing squad is more humane.
but no death penalty is better still.
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billisonboard
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Post by billisonboard on May 8, 2021 20:44:50 GMT -5
Masking our brutality by using a "humane" method sickens me. If we are going to kill people, I support public hangings in town centers. Live television broadcasts. With popcorn. And cotton candy for the kids.
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dondub
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Post by dondub on May 8, 2021 21:50:06 GMT -5
Masking our brutality by using a "humane" method sickens me. If we are going to kill people, I support public hangings in town centers. Live television broadcasts. With popcorn. And cotton candy for the kids. How about pro-life Christians that support the death penalty get to draw lots for a biblical stoning to death. |
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djAdvocate
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Post by djAdvocate on May 8, 2021 22:17:43 GMT -5
Masking our brutality by using a "humane" method sickens me. If we are going to kill people, I support public hangings in town centers. Live television broadcasts. With popcorn. And cotton candy for the kids. I presume everyone understood what I said in my post. I am opposed to the DP under all circumstances.
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NoNamePerson
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Post by NoNamePerson on May 9, 2021 7:21:28 GMT -5
Masking our brutality by using a "humane" method sickens me. If we are going to kill people, I support public hangings in town centers. Live television broadcasts. With popcorn. And cotton candy for the kids. Well, I’m going to burn in hell for LOL when I read this! And I almost just marked this as read forever so I wouldn’t even open the thread. Now off to mark it!  Should have followed my first instinct. |
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