Mike Malloy - Reactivating Old Sparky

[hschulein]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee has decided how it will respond to a nationwide scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death-row inmates: with the electric chair.

Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law Thursday allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event prisons are unable to obtain the drugs, which have become more and more scarce following a European-led boycott of drug sales for executions.

Tennessee lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the electric chair legislation in April, with the Senate voting 23-3 and the House 68-13 in favor of the bill.

Full article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/23/tenn-brings-back-electric-chair/

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[panfluteman]

1. What about Good Ole Hemlock?

Yep, that's right, Conium maculatum. It is actually a very humane way to execute someone, causing a gradual slowdown and paralysis of the central nervous system until the victim just stops breathing. And the stuff grows wild in the Pacific Northwest, from what I was told. There's also Tetrodotoxin, or Japanese Fugu or blowfish poison. It kills in a similar manner, through numbing and paralyzing the CNS until the victim stops breathing. When I lived in Japan, I used to go eat Fugu with a Japanese surgeon and anaesthesiologist, just in case; you see, he had saved people from Tetrodotoxin poisoning by hooking them up to an artificial respirator; if the victim is passively breathed, the liver can neutralize the toxin within a 24 hour period, even though the victim is numb and paralyzed.

[ladjf]

2. Capital punishment in any form is a terrible disgrace to the human race. nt