The Botched execution in Oklahoma is blamed on a burst vein. What is a burst vein and what causes it?
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
No sympathy at all for the guy. He buried one of his victims alive.
QuoteLethal Injection has become the preferred method of execution in most States. In fact, the gas chamber is not the prime method of execution in any State, although three States authorize it under specific circumstances.
Originally posted by: pjstroh
Whatever happened to cyanide?
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Originally posted by: DonDiegoQuoteLethal Injection has become the preferred method of execution in most States. In fact, the gas chamber is not the prime method of execution in any State, although three States authorize it under specific circumstances.
Originally posted by: pjstroh
Whatever happened to cyanide?
__Arizona authorizes lethal injection for persons sentenced after 11/15/92; those sentenced before that date may select lethal injection or lethal gas.
__Missouri authorizes lethal injection or lethal gas; the statute leaves unclear who decides what method to use, the inmate or the Director of the Missouri Department of Corrections.
__Wyoming authorizes lethal injection but specifically authorizes cyanide gas if lethal injection is ever held to be unconstitutional.
The last person executed in the Gas Chamber in the United States was German national Walter LaGrand, sentenced to death before 1992, who was executed in Arizona on March 3, 1999.
crimelibrary.com offers The Lethal History of the Gas Chamber, which suggests the Gas Chamber was less humane than its adherents claimed. [e.g. Arizona’s execution method had been hanging until 1930 when a condemned woman was accidentally decapitated. That incident led Arizona to adopt the gas chamber in 1933 because proponents argued it was more humane.] Maybe they're just exaggerating.
