Comments on: September 19 roundup

By: No Name Guy

No Name Guy — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:05:25 +0000

We had that here in Washington some years ago. A fat @$$ killer of a bank clerk (the SOB shot her after she handed over all the money) managed to eat his way out of the gallows, claiming he’d be decapitated when they sprung the trap on him.

The simple solution for this is to change the method of execution for these deserving individuals to a firing squad (rifles rigged in a frame with remote triggers so as to insure accuracy – mustn’t do a sloppy job). Does the job no matter how fat, skinny or otherwise for the deserving “subject” of the procedure. Plus no issues with getting the drugs, finding the vein, etc.

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:46:00 +0000

>In Bond v. U.S., coming back like a boomerang …

I note the contrast with the legal strategy of Second Amendment activists, making sure that only the most attractive cases were appealed to the US Supreme Court. Here the appeal is being carried by a singularly loathsome defendant. One can only hope that the legal demage to Constitutional sovereignty will be minimal.

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:39:56 +0000

On a more serious note, death by shooting (properly managed) should be defined as acceptable under Eighth Amendment “cruel” standards, and the convicted murderer offered a choice between a diet followed by medical execution, or shooting.

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:11:45 +0000

“Ohio Man Cites Obesity as Reason to Delay Execution”

It there was every a time for an ADA accommodation this is it. Let’s make sure that he can die like anyone else on death row!