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Botched Death Penalty Stories: NSFW perhaps
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:02 pm
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:02 pm
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It is estimated that 3% of U.S. executions in the period from 1890 to 2010 were botched. In the 2014 book, Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty, Austin Sarat, a professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, describes the history of flawed executions in the U.S. during that period. He reports that over those 120 years, 8,776 people were executed and 276 of those executions (3.15%) went wrong in some way. Lethal injection had the highest rate of botched executions.
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Here are a couple to get us started
3. Sept. 2, 1983. Mississippi. Jimmy Lee Gray. Asphyxiation. Officials had to clear the room eight minutes after the gas was released when Gray's desperate gasps for air repulsed witnesses. His attorney, Dennis Balske of Montgomery, Alabama, criticized state officials for clearing the room when the inmate was still alive. Said noted death penalty defense attorney David Bruck, "Jimmy Lee Gray died banging his head against a steel pole in the gas chamber while the reporters counted his moans (eleven, according to the Associated Press)."[3] Later it was revealed that the executioner, Barry Bruce, was drunk.
25. March 25, 1997. Florida. Pedro Medina. Electrocution. A crown of foot-high flames shot from the headpiece during the execution, filling the execution chamber with a stench of thick smoke and gagging the two dozen official witnesses. An official then threw a switch to manually cut off the power and prematurely end the two-minute cycle of 2,000 volts. Medina's chest continued to heave until the flames stopped and death came.[39] After the execution, prison officials blamed the fire on a corroded copper screen in the headpiece of the electric chair, but two experts hired by the governor later concluded that the fire was caused by the improper application of a sponge (designed to conduct electricity) to Medina's head.
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Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:06 pm to Sao
Jimmy Lee probably got it a lot easier than the person he probably killed to get himself in that gas chamber to begin with.
Frick him
Frick him
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:06 pm to Sao
The execution should be gruesome and painful for these animals.
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:07 pm to Sao
Well happy Good Friday, everyone!
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:08 pm to Sody Cracker
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The execution should be gruesome and painful for these animals.
It always strikes me as a little sad that so many people think our very imperfect judicial system will only convict and execute guilty people.
It's like they think that either our system is perfect or that killing an occasional innocent person is ok.
This post was edited on 4/14/17 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:08 pm to Sao
All I got from that was firing squad is 100% effective
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:09 pm to Sao
I wanted to read about some botched hangings in the late 1800's and early 1900's,
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:10 pm to VABuckeye
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They were supposed to die. They died.
Successful execution
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:10 pm to Sody Cracker
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Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:13 pm to GEAUXT
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All I got from that was firing squad is 100% effective
Utah is the only option and even that comes with a grandfathering caveat.
ETA: OK has it as secondary. Botched post.
This post was edited on 4/14/17 at 3:16 pm
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:17 pm to GEAUXT
Also, most of those "botches" were just them trying to find a vein on a drug addict
That's not cruel and unusual punishment. The same thing happens to these people at the hospital.
That's not cruel and unusual punishment. The same thing happens to these people at the hospital.
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:18 pm to Sao
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Botched Death Penalty Stories: NSFW perhaps
If they were being put to death.. and they are dead, how exactly is it "botched"?
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:20 pm to NYNolaguy1
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It always strikes me as a little sad that so many people think our very imperfect judicial system will only convict and execute guilty people.
It's like they think that either our system is perfect or that killing an occasional innocent person is ok.
I guess you're cool with your 16 year old daughter being murdered or your 3 year old daughter being anally raped and then murdered.
Because that's what he did dumbass.
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:21 pm to Sao
I'm sorry you don't deserve a humane and peaceful death if you murder someone else.
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:21 pm to GEAUXT
Execution by Firing Squad, Utah State Prison, Draper, Utah
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:24 pm to Sao
They had the death penalty for a reason. They committed a heinous act. It was likely the man above's way of bringing sweet justice.
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:26 pm to kengel2
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guess you're cool with your 16 year old daughter being murdered or your 3 year old daughter being anally raped and then murdered.
Because that's what he did dumbass.
ETA:Which do you think is true:
1)Only the guilty are executed and the state always gets it right
2)You're ok with killing an innocent person every so often. You know, because it's worth it.
This post was edited on 4/14/17 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 4/14/17 at 3:28 pm to SSpaniel
Here is one for Darth - not a botch but a bitch
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Karla Faye Tucker in Texas on February 3, 1998 - When she was 13, she began traveling with the Allman Brothers Band. In her early 20's she started to hang out with bikers and on June 13, 1983 she entered the home of another biker with Danny Garrett and James Leibrant to steal a motorcycle. During the robbery, two persons were killed, and Garrett and Tucker were convicted of committing murder with a pickaxe. This case entered the U.S. and international news because she had become a born-again Christian while in prison and George W. Bush, then governor of Texas, had to decide on her request for clemency, which he ultimately denied. Read "Karla Faye Tucker: Texas' Controversial Murderess" by Joseph Geringer, Court TV.
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