Cruel & Unusual Punishment
This seemed interesting to me. Did any of you hear about the Nebraska Courts outlawing the electric chair?
Here’s the tiniest article ever written:
NEBRASKA COURT OUTLAWS ELECTRIC CHAIR
The Nebraska Supreme Court rules that the use of the electric chair as a means to carry out the death penalty is “cruel and unusual” punishment. It is the only state that still uses electrocution as the sole means of execution.
What I thought was most funny was the fact that their reasoning behind it was that the electric chair is a “cruel & unusual punishment”.
What?
Wait, so that means that you could have a guy, who, let’s assume, broke into a house, made 3 daughters rape eachother, made the son sodomize a pie, and then killed the parents and took all their money, then set each of the family members on fire, only AFTER deficating on each one of them. And then his punishment would be to get the death penalty. But not by the electric chair, because that form of death is cruel and unusual. I’m pretty sure what that guy did to that family, would be considered ALOT MORE cruel and unusual than HIM being fried to death.
Wouldn’t you agree?
And here’s an extra question.
If the only form of death penalty left is lethal injection, then how would you kill a criminal who is a hemopheliac?
MW