Real Justice

isn't there some mention of prohibiting "cruel and unusual punishment" in the Constitution? I think a wood chipper would be both cruel and unusual

and isn't there also some mention of a right to a fair and speedy trial in the Constitution as well?

KarenTN is correct. (The subject had already been broached earlier.)

DonDiego counsels any poster contemplating administering fatal lethal punishment personally on a deserving miscreant to consider the jurisdiction in which he plans the deed, . . . in the event said poster is apprehended. Fr'instance an aversion to needles severely limits the preferred States. Similarly a predilection for firing squad would limit poor old DonDiego to homicide in Idaho, Oklahoma, and Utah.


STATE METHODS OF EXECUTION
Alabama__Lethal Injection or Electrocution
Arizona__Lethal Injection
Arkansas__Lethal Injection
California__Lethal Injection or Gas
Colorado__Lethal Injection
Connecticut__Lethal Injection
Delaware__Lethal Injection
Florida__Lethal Injection or Electrocution
Georgia__Lethal Injection
Idaho__Lethal Injection or Firing Squad
Illinois__Lethal Injection
Indiana__Lethal Injection
Kansas__Lethal Injection
Kentucky__Lethal Injection
Louisiana__Lethal Injection
Maryland__Lethal Injection
Mississippi__Lethal Injection
Missouri__Lethal Injection or Gas
Montana__Lethal Injection
Nebraska__Electrocution
Nevada__Lethal Injection
New Hampshire__Lethal Injection
New Mexico__Lethal Injection
New York__Lethal Injection
North Carolina__Lethal Injection
Ohio__Electrocution or Lethal Injection
Oklahoma__Lethal Injection or Firing Squad
Oregon__Lethal Injection
Pennsylvania__Lethal Injection
South Carolina__Lethal Injection or Electrocution
South Dakota__Lethal Injection
Tennessee__Lethal Injection
Texas__Lethal Injection
Utah__Firing Squad or Lethal Injection
Virginia__Lethal Injection or Electrocution
Washington__Hanging or Lethal Injection
Wyoming__Lethal Injection
Federal Govt.__Lethal Injection or State Method

notes:
Alabama - If execution is after 07-01-02, inmate may choose electrocution, otherwise lethal injection. Arizona - If committed before 11-23-92, inmate shall elect lethal injection or lethal gas. If no election made, then lethal injection. California - Inmate may elect lethal injection or lethal gas. If no election, then Lethal Injection. If one method invalid, then the other method. Delaware - Lethal Injection. If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then hanging. Florida - Lethal injection unless inmate elects electrocution. If lethal injection or electrocution held unconstitutional, then any legal method. Georgia - If committed after May 1, 2000 lethal injection. If before, electrocution. If electrocution held unconstitutional, then lethal injection. In 2001, Georgia Supreme Court held electrocution, as prescribed by statute for murders before 1999, unconstitutional.Idaho - Lethal injection. If impractical due to lack of “technical assistance,” then firing squad. Illinois - Lethal Injection. If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then electrocution. Kentucky - Lethal injection, unless inmate was sentenced before 03-31-98 and chooses electrocution. Missouri - Lethal injection or lethal gas. (Unknown who decides) New Hampshire - Lethal Injection. If “impractical, then hanging. Ohio - Lethal Injection - If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then any subsequently prescribed legal method. Oklahoma - If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then electrocution. If electrocution held unconstitutional, then firing squad. South Carolina - Lethal injection, unless inmate elects electrocution. If Lethal Injection held unconstitutional, then electrocution. Tennessee - On or after 01-01-99, then lethal injection. Before 01-01-99, then electrocution, unless inmate elects lethal injection. If lethal injection or electrocution,l then any constitutional method. Utah - Lethal injection. If court holds that defendant has right to firing squad choice under prior law, then firing squad. If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then firing squad. Virginia - Lethal injection or electrocution chosen by inmate. If no choice made, then Lethal Injection. Washington - Lethal injection, unless inmate elects hanging. Wyoming - If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then lethal gas. Federal Government - Lethal Injection is general method pursuant to 28 CFR, Part 26. However, under the Violent Crime Control Act of 1994, the method is that of state in which the conviction took place, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3596.

Ref: Clark County DA

I see, the convicted murder(s), after years of appeals, get to choose how they will be executed. On the other hand, those who they murdered had no choice in how they were murdered. I guess it is against the law to offend the convicted murderers as to how they will be executed. Asinine.

At some point as the survivors of heinous crimes and all, shouldn't we want to rise above what these terrible people have done? Why stoop to such low levels?

This thread is makin' me hungry.....for some real justice.

I'm for capital punishment, but when I see the blood lust from some people here it creeps me out.

I love that America can claim moral superiority over some third world countries. I hate that the right wingers want desperately to lower us below the very people that we look down on.

Enjoy the lofty status that America holds in the world community, and bitch about the policies that got us there.


Do you want America to continue to lead the world in doing what's right, or give in to your baser natures and become just another bunch of animals. The left wing keeps us noble, so the right wing can take advantage of that status and behave worse than the evil we are fighting.

but the right wing is the God party.

Blood lusting sadists vs noble baby killers.

I see it as Justice Seekers vs. Murderers.

Throwing people in wood chippers is okay because women have the right to choose.