Tenn. governor signs electric chair bill

[Street Knowledge]

Eight states authorize electrocution as a method of execution but only at the inmate's discretion.

Now Tennessee is the first state to make use of the electric chair mandatory when lethal injection drugs are unavailable.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed the measure into law Thursday.

"This is unusual and might be both cruel and unusual punishment," said Richard Dieter, president of the Death Penalty Information Center.

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"No state says what Tennessee says. This is forcing the inmate to use electrocution," according to Dieter, who believes "the inmate would have an automatic Eighth Amendment challenge."

The amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishment.

"The electric chair is clearly a brutal alternative," Dieter said.

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Tennessee to use electric chair when lethal drugs unavailable - CNN.com

 

[youngmeezy]

I still think firing squad would be best.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

this is a reaction to some country that stopped selling Tennessee the drugs to do lethal injections

 

[FaTaL]

this is a reaction to some country that stopped selling Tennessee the drugs to do lethal injections

europe as a whole is stopping the production of these drugs

why not just use the gas chamber

 

[youngmeezy]

europe as a whole is stopping the production of these drugs

why not just use the gas chamber

It would probably be classified as "cruel and unusual punishment"

 

[FaTaL]

It would probably be classified as "cruel and unusual punishment"

and electric chair isnt?

i mean if i had to choose between the gas chamber and electric chair i would probably pick the gas

either way your fukked

heres one thing about the electric chair, they gotta shove paper towels up your azz because it literally makes you sh!t your life away

 

[youngmeezy]

and electric chair isnt?

i mean if i had to choose between the gas chamber and electric chair i would probably pick the gas

either way your fukked

heres one thing about the electric chair, they gotta shove paper towels up your azz because it literally makes you sh!t your life away

I just realized that someone has to clean up the last meal shyt people taking after they get executed.

....ugh

 

[FaTaL]

I just realized that someone has to clean up the last meal shyt people taking after they get executed.

....ugh

not if you shove enough paper up that hole

 

[youngmeezy]

not if you shove enough paper up that hole

They legit shove paper all the way up your butt before you get executed? That already seems like punishment enough.

 

[FaTaL]

They legit shove paper all the way up your butt before you get executed? That already seems like punishment enough.

im going to assume the paper shover is in charge of cleaning up the sh!t if it leaks so if your that dude your gonna shove it as far as you can even if you have to use a pool stick

 

[Mr. Somebody]

A chair that fries you until your eyeballs pop out of your head isnt cruel and unusual? Only in the demonic realm would that be considered a humane way to terminate a demon.