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    Tennessee brings back electric chair during lethal injection drug scarcity

    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.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014...lectric-chair/

    Sounds good to me!

    Tennessee's next scheduled execution is of prisoner Billy Irick on October 7. Irick was sentenced to death for raping and murdering seven-year-old Paula Dyer in 1985.

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    One of the problems is that liberals talk about a humane death penalty but their goal, which they won't state, is no punishment. Lethal injection is certainly more humane than the electric chair.

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    Tennessee has had its share of major death penalty reversals due to police corruption, the WM3 being the most recent. I'm surprised they'd push this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
    One of the problems is that liberals talk about a humane death penalty but their goal, which they won't state, is no punishment. Lethal injection is certainly more humane than the electric chair.
    No punishment? Who are these alleged "liberals" that want NO punishment?
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    As a Tennessean I can say this is an absolutely shocking development.

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    Justice would be better served by giving the victim's family absolute control over the perpetrator's fate.
    My beliefs are a distillation of what I was taught as a child and what I observe as an adult.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Polecat View Post
    Justice would be better served by giving the victim's family absolute control over the perpetrator's fate.
    That wouldn't be very consistent, would it? What if one family wants a killer executed, but another wants them set free or serve a very short sentence?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Mensch View Post
    That wouldn't be very consistent, would it? What if one family wants a killer executed, but another wants them set free or serve a very short sentence?
    Who cares about consistency? They are the offended party with the most interest in it. And I doubt someone who lost a child would say "Give 'em 5 years". They'll want their head.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alyosha View Post
    Who cares about consistency? They are the offended party with the most interest in it. And I doubt someone who lost a child would say "Give 'em 5 years". They'll want their head.

    I agree, in mosts cases that would be true. But again, similar crimes should receive similar punishments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Mensch View Post
    I agree, in mosts cases that would be true. But again, similar crimes should receive similar punishments.
    Really? So, two criminals rob convenience stores and shoot the clerk. One is 17-years old and has no criminal record. The other is 32-years old, has been arrested 118 times, has spent years on probation for violent crimes, but similar crimes should receive similar punishment?

    It really gets more complicated than that.

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