South Carolina offers new option for death row

Some alternative that’s.  

Prisoners typically complain that they need to have a wider choice on easy methods to die if it’s the very last thing they do. And normally it most likely is.

So the state obliged to point out them that they valued their suggestions.  Simply to point out them that they cared, they lately added demise by firing squad to the listing.  So that you see?  Typically the state does pay attention.  Most inmates favor including demise by previous age, nonetheless it isn’t prone to move.

Eight states nonetheless enable execution by electrical chair and 4 states enable demise by firing squad.  However since solely three executions have been carried out by firing squad since 1976, I recommend they contact the North Koreans if they’ve any questions because it is part of every day life there.  And in an effort to go inexperienced, many prisons have transformed from fuel chambers to electrical chairs thereby fulfilling their future dedication to a carbon impartial atmosphere.

Satirically, these opposing capital punishment have made it extraordinarily troublesome for states to obtain medication for the extra human deadly injection methodology, forcing them to show to traditionally much less humane strategies.  Good going guys.  If the state is having a lot hassle getting ahold of the deadly injection medication, why don’t they only go to the native highschool and get all they need?

So one inmate who was scheduled for execution was granted a alternative between dangerous and even worse.  Since deadly injection was out, that solely left the firing squad or the electrical chair.  Loss of life penalty opponents can have hassle banning these except they’ll discover a option to persuade energy corporations to cease supplying electrical energy to prisons or ban weapons and bullets in all the nation.  Good luck with that.  

Properly, execution day got here and so they had every thing able to go when what do you suppose occurred?  The courts instituted a final minute keep of execution.  Similar to within the films.  He was then led again to his cell for extra jail meals.  Discuss merciless and strange punishment.  I can wager that for his final meal, he didn’t order a Comfortable Meal both.

The prisoner in query had years earlier gunned down a comfort retailer clerk.  He claims that being pressured to decide on the strategy of his personal demise was barbaric.  Satirically, he murdered his sufferer with a hand gun which is just about the identical as demise by firing squad.  So that you see?  What goes round generally does come round.  That’s what some folks may name poetic justice.

Within the olden days the condemned have been shot at daybreak whereas blindfolded up in opposition to a wall.  Now within the fashionable age of enlightenment, the penal system is tobacco-free so prisoners aren’t even allowed a final cigarette.  And in the event that they put on a blindfold and should be led to the execution chamber, they threat being mistaken for higher administration and could be launched accidentally.

Within the meantime, they’re asking a decide to find out whether or not electrocution or firing squad quantity to merciless and strange punishment.

I feel they need to add visiting your in-laws to that.  And whereas they’re at it, they’ll clarify why capital punishment is written in decrease case.  

Joe Crawford is a longtime Alton resident who writes weekly columns for The Telegraph. He will be contacted at crawfordjo@aol.com.