October 30, 2018
"Sorry for the delay, I got caught in traffic."
Condemned man's last words were that joke (after his execution was delayed for hours 6 hours pending the Court's final rejection of efforts to save him). There were also a few more words, thanking people, and "I love you, and I’ll meet you out there."
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In the tradition of Walter Raleigh.
I still think the gas chamber that was used for years in California until governor Moonbeam was the best method.
It was quick and did not require someone to start an IV, which cam be a problem in prisoners that were addicts and lost most surface veins.
The math row in California is a county club. The prisoners get their own cells and other amenities.
Death row. More autocorrect bullshit.
Wow, two brothers executed for separate crimes. Parenting!
Some states are legalizing using nitrogen gas as an execution method. It's quick, painless, cheap, and a lot safer than the cyanide gas they used to use in gas chambers.
ob said...
Wow, two brothers executed for separate crimes. Parenting!
More likely genetics but it is interesting.
@MichaelK: I've been on Math Row for nearly 30 years now.
Meth row would be better. Autocorrect has no sense of trenchant social observation.
Whatever happened to last words. People, especially Roman Emperors, used to sum up their lives with fitting and poetic epigrams.
Getting held up in traffic? That's fucking lame! Sorry I was late because I was busy smashing a guard's skull in with a pipe! Now that's a side-splitter right there.
Oh the irony! He was killing the audience, and then the audience killed him.
US prisons are dangerous. Just saw that James "Whitey" Bulger was killed at his first day in a W. Virginia facility. The third there in 7 months. He was 89 - someone must have been settling a score.
The inability of government to handle the longest, most well documented and studied skill known to man (execution) is a perfect example of why they should not be handling anything more than necessary. Government, of course, should handle executions, but come on. There are a lot of ways to do it that are simple, cheap, effective, and reliable. Hell, just read the paper any day and you can find multiple examples of how it's done by everyday people, not to mention you have a lot of experienced people on site at the prison.
Nitrogen, carbon monoxide, or a bullet are infinitely better in every way than what we have employed so far. Only the government could have such difficulty with this, and only the government would be allowed to botch it up so badly, with such cruelty and ugliness.
Think about how stupid it is to design and employ complicated things like an electric chair or lethal injection to do what we all have to be very careful about not doing by accident ourselves on a daily basis.
Lethal injection is probably the stupidest of all. You have to find multiple rare drugs to anesthetize, cause loss of consciousnesses, and then stop the heart. Nitrogen, Carbon monoxide, or a bullet handle all that in one simple step, at virtually no cost at all. This is a perfect example of how government makes everything it touches complicated, expensive and counterproductive. They can't hit any goal... ever.
He should have been taken to Yosemite.
Gotta appreciate someone who displays a bit of humor on his way to his execution.
Bagoh: Agree 100%. Firing squad is good and, even with the price of ammo nowadays, relatively inexpensive. Hanging has always served its purpose as has the guillotine or a sharp katana.
mockturtle said...
"Bagoh: Agree 100%. Firing squad is good and, even with the price of ammo nowadays, relatively inexpensive. Hanging has always served its purpose as has the guillotine or a sharp katana."
Chris Rock's suggestion: Stabbing Chair.
Killing - to show how bad killing is - still doesn't sit right with me, but I can go with the flow.
My siblings and I try to say something funny when we're most stressed.
In the tradition of Walter Raleigh.
I was thinking of Marie Antoinette, who apologized to the executioner for stepping on his foot as she made her way up to the guillotine.
Very W.C. Fields. I approve.
Wouldn't it be sad if you made a last joke, and it wasn't any good?
If your last words were, "Well, I guess you had to be there..."
Take my wife--please!
bagoh20 said...
Nitrogen, carbon monoxide, or a bullet are infinitely better in every way than what we have employed so far.
I'm in favor of execution via flesh eating bacteria. Takes a while longer, and requires more cleanup, but I suspect it would have a bit more of a deterrent effect, especially if a time-lapse video was uploaded to YouTube.
James K said...
I was thinking of Marie Antoinette, who apologized to the executioner for stepping on his foot as she made her way up to the guillotine.
Manny Machado would do it intentionally...
The Crack Emcee said...
Killing - to show how bad killing is...
Whether or not killing is bad depends on the context. Murder is bad, killing when necessary for defense of self or others is not.
The death penalty is killing to show how bad murder* is.
*Or other very serious crime.
"Michael K said...
I still think the gas chamber that was used for years in California until governor Moonbeam was the best method."
Nope, good Old Sparky, the electric chair. Strap 'em in. Light 'em up. This asshole crush a guys skull with a pipe. Fuck him.
There'd be no yucking it up before the electric chair.
I doubt that the widow of the man murdered by Berget found the joke amusing.
"Rodney Berget, 56, received a lethal injection of an undisclosed drug for the 2011 slaying of Ronald “R.J.” Johnson, who was beaten with a pipe and had his head covered in plastic wrap at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls."
Should have given him a retroactive D & C abortion.
It was quick and did not require someone to start an IV, which cam be a problem in prisoners that were addicts and lost most surface veins.
They could do a cutdown.
Should have given him a retroactive D & C abortion. You have to be able to scrape him out of something he's attached to.
If we're going to do an abortion-themed execution, I'd favor a procedure using a giant uterine evacuator.
Laugh, I thought I'd die.
Stop it! You're killing me!
Nope, good Old Sparky, the electric chair. Strap 'em in. Light 'em up.
It does have its attractions.
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