Could Electric Chair return to Louisiana?

HOPE SO

I'd be a really good hangman through. We need to bring that back first.

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States are scrambling for death penalty alternatives because of a clampdown on the availability of deadly drugs for executions.

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These other methods should be on the books as a fallback, but the preferred method should remain lethal injection just for the sake of 8th Amendment challenges.

They should diversify the drugs eligible for the lethal injection process so that you can pump them full of opiates (morphine, preferably) before giving them the lethal drugs that actually shut down the heart and/or lungs.



If the Supreme Court gives us lip over that, then the firing squad should make a comeback because a bullet to the brain is not "cruel" in comparison to many of these other methods, nor is it "unusual" considering that many of these scumbags shot people to death to end up there.

I'm not sure what the current figure is, but about ten years ago, CA had 660 people on death row. They had only done a few executions since the death penalty was reinstated, but many prosecutors were happy to seek the death penalty and some juries were willing to hand it out.

After the state moved to lethal injection (from the gas chamber), the law required that an anesthesiologist be present at executions and insert the IV line(s) and/or start the flow of drugs (I can't remember the exact specifics). It presented a moral dilemma for many physicians... My BIL was chief of anesthesia at a hospital in the Bay Area. Neither he, or any of his people, wanted anything to do with it. (He's not a leftwing nutjob. Born, raised and educated in the South). I think he has mixed emotions about the death penalty, from a moral perspective. Legally, it's the law, so he's okay with it. But as a physician, he thinks it would be highly unethical to participate in an execution.

IMO, the CA law had nothing to do with "patient" safety, but was just in place to act as another obstacle to impede legal executions. LA has a law that requires the drugs to be on hand
x days (30, 45, 90?) before an execution takes place. Look for this to delay Sepulveda's execution.

As far as our "representative" in Metairie goes, he's just another political hack trying to pander to his constituency, or more accurately, campaign donors. LA isn't ever going to execute anyone in the electric chair again. Stupid law, or not.

Just saw an article posted this afternoon on Nola.com...
A Temporary Restraining Order has been issued staying Sepulvado's execution for 90 days because of documentation problems related to the procurement of lethal injection drugs.

sure why not. sounds fun

I vote for "an eye for an eye" method.

Did it ever leave Louisiana or are they just storing it in another state?