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NBC: Execution of Tennessee inmate with heart device can go forward despite claims it may shock him (archive.is)
posted 326 days ago by Ahaus667 326 days ago by Ahaus667 +39 / -0
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– Kienan 20 points 326 days ago +20 / -0

Black was convicted in the 1988 shooting deaths of his girlfriend, Angela Clay, 29, and her two daughters, Latoya, 9, and Lakeisha, 6....

For those wondering.

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 18 points 326 days ago +18 / -0

and it took us nearly 40 years to finally execute him!?

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– MegoThor 15 points 325 days ago +15 / -0

Justice delayed is justice denied.

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– deleted 1 point 325 days ago +1 / -0
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– Mpetey123 14 points 326 days ago +14 / -0

For those who didn't read the article, the hangup here is dude has a internal defibrillator. The defense is arguing that when he is lethally injected the heart device will restore homie's heart, prolonging the execution.

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– MegoThor 22 points 325 days ago +22 / -0

Shoot him in the head.

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– EggShenBusTours 4 points 325 days ago +4 / -0

Or heart. I think old school firing squads aim for dead center. Thatll do just fine

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– MegoThor 3 points 325 days ago +3 / -0

The guy murdered his girlfriend and her two daughters, both under ten years old. Finding a heart might prove difficult.

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– Adamrises 9 points 325 days ago +9 / -0

Lethal injections are already long and torturous processes that fail half the time to not leave them writhing in burning agony for 5+ minutes instead of their intended effect.

Them pretending to care about prolonging while already doing this is just pathetic.

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– Shill4Hire 6 points 325 days ago +6 / -0

Shotguns are more effective, faster, more humane, and guaranteed. But the chair gives a layer of "isolation" from the executioner. Solution: Rube Golberg style shotgun.

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– Adamrises 10 points 325 days ago +10 / -0

The problem is that all the people involved are scared of looking messy. They associate barbarism and the evilness of the act based on how much cleaning up it requires. So guns are super bad, chairs are up there, and the "clean, instant" injection is humane and neutrally wonderful.

Its a complete nonsense of bureaucrats trying to pretend they are human, and guys happy to murder all your children in their forever wars acting like they are too good to kill a felon. There is no logic behind it.

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– HallucinatoryBeing 6 points 325 days ago +6 / -0

Rope is reusable, environmentally friendly, and leaves no mess. It's the preferred method of execution by the most civilized country on the planet, Japan.

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– Adamrises 3 points 325 days ago +3 / -0

and leaves no mess

We literally have the idea of not standing by the gallows because this is entirely untrue. People void themselves while being hung and it goes everywhere. You can probably find a large enough diaper to absorb it at this point in the universe, but that's still very rough to both put on a grown adult and then take off.

And honestly, with the risk of failure the rope has of not breaking the neck, its the same "could probably go wrong and just leave them to die horribly over a couple minutes" problem as injection has.

Bullets cost almost nothing and have a high chance of working just fine, and if it fails you can immediately use another until it does. If we are going to kill someone, we need to accept the mess and just be men about it.

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– CanuckElhead 1 point 325 days ago +1 / -0

They always hide behind the comfort of the witnesses, I say if your going to be squeamish then maybe a public execution isn't the place for you.

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– Adamrises 2 points 325 days ago +2 / -0

Agreed, and to take it back to the injections, I'd say watching someone convulse in agony strapped to a table is probably just as horrifying as anything even if its technically "cleaner."

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– RoulerBleu 1 point 325 days ago +1 / -0

Canada somehow manages to do assisted suicide without screw up the dying part.

It's not that hard.

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– Adamrises 1 point 325 days ago +1 / -0

Someone with more knowledge can correct me if I'm off, but that's because Canada does it with "doctors" who are using a legally acquired substance in a more controlled environment.

Whereas lethal injections in the US are dubiously acquired, because the company refuses to sell directly for the purpose of killing people, and done by less standardized prison staff in worse conditions. Much more likely to go wrong.

Also, we only know about how bad ours go because of anti-death penalty advocates constantly blowing the whistle on it. Canada is full on the MAID train, so they will absolutely try to portray it as perfect and wonderful, like old Dr. Kevorkian used it while actually murdering people.

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– Ahaus667 [S] 10 points 326 days ago +10 / -0

Attorneys for Black filed a request Thursday to the state Supreme Court to temporarily halt the execution, writing that he could otherwise "be subject to the severe pain and suffering of having his heart repeatedly shocked back into rhythm during his execution."

Heaven forbid a death row inmate we’ve been keeping alive for decades feel pain at death.

One of his lawyers, Kelley Henry, also said she is asking Gov. Bill Lee to grant clemency for her client so that "Tennessee does not move forward with this gruesome spectacle." She also argued that Black is intellectually disabled and that his execution would violate the state Constitution.

Every time…

Black was convicted in the 1988 shooting deaths of his girlfriend, Angela Clay, 29, and her two daughters, Latoya, 9, and Lakeisha, 6. Nashville police said that Black had previously threatened harm to Clay because she was considering ending their relationship, according to her sister.

"Mr. Black will not be feeling the shocks as he will be in a coma" brought on by the lethal injection process, testified Dr. Litsa Lambrakos, a cardiac electrophysiologist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

But Dr. Gail Van Norman, an anesthesiology professor at the University of Washington who specializes in heart surgeries, suggested otherwise. She testified that the use of a potent amount of pentobarbital, which can cause death from respiratory failure, could unnecessarily trigger Black's defibrillator.

We need to delay execution again because he might get shocked despite not being able to feel it!

Black's legal team also says he suffers from other physical ailments, including advanced dementia, brain damage and kidney disease.

"I fear we are going to see many more of these situations as this population grows older," Maher said of death row inmates, who can spend decades behind bars appealing their cases before they are put to death. Restoring their health, either mentally or physically, only so they can be executed presents a further moral quandary, she added.

"This is the kind of case in which the governor should issue a reprieve that would be the saving grace for Mr. Black," Maher said.

It’s a “moral quandary” to keep someone alive through free healthcare for decades of appeals so now we must… grant clemency to death row inmates instead of killing them… the leftist brain truly knows no bounds.

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– ghostfox1_ 8 points 326 days ago +8 / -0

She also argued that Black is intellectually disabled and that his execution would violate the state Constitution.

I wonder if they would argue this about abortion.

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– deleted 1 point 325 days ago +1 / -0
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– Rezlung 10 points 326 days ago +10 / -0

Oh no, the retarded geriatric nigger who murdered two little girls almost 40 years ago might be in some discomfort during his execution? Good.

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– ernsithe 4 points 326 days ago +4 / -0

If a prisoner was condemned before 1999 in TN they can give him the chair instead. Then I don't think they'll have to worry about the minor shock.

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– bloodguard 3 points 325 days ago +3 / -0

Good grief. Just go back to a choice of firing squad or hanging.

And no more decades loitering on death row. One quick judicial review and then schedule the execution.

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– 83671R18 3 points 326 days ago +3 / -0

Rope fixes this!

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– stalememes 2 points 325 days ago +2 / -0

So they waited 40 to execute this fucking dude, instead of, you know, just not letting him have surgery to change the battery of his heart shock device. Should've taken care of that shit in 10 years max and saved the good people a lot of money.

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– Skywise 1 point 325 days ago +1 / -0

So... turn it offf just before the execution!

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