Displacer on 21/12/2009 at 13:39
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http://www.acluohio.org/issues/deathpenalty/StateVRivera/Timelines.pdf) Here you can read a second by second description of the last 24 hours of the condemned, including the actual execution.
Its for every executed inmate here in Ohio since the death penalty was reinstated in 1999. Its a chilling read no matter which side you're on. It doesn't list their crimes so I would suggest looking up each one before you read their last moments (their names are included). It surprised me how quick it really is, in one case from the time the inmate crossed the threshold of the death chamber to the point his body left the prison property was less than 30 minutes.
Fragony on 21/12/2009 at 14:21
That is quite a hard read. I think the worst should come to the worst but it's systematic nature is kinda unnerving.
Singing Dancing Moose on 21/12/2009 at 20:59
yeah man, i'm all for the death penalty until i need to confront any aspect of its reality
daniel on 21/12/2009 at 21:39
Creepy.
I'm personally against the death penalty. I'm not an idealist though - some people are just too dangerous to have mixing with society. I wouldn't mind paying an optional tax to keep death row inmates alive.
demagogue on 21/12/2009 at 22:02
Quote Posted by daniel
I wouldn't mind paying an optional tax to keep death row inmates alive.
I believe what you're trying to say is you wouldn't mind saving tax money to keep death row inmates alive, since we're already paying more to prosecute death penalty cases.
Edit:
Sorry, had to make the point; not trying to be snarky.
Death penalty procedures are always going to have a gruesome edge no matter how they arrange them. I remember the whole debate going on when they realized the anesthetic sometimes fails and you could expect with some certainty that a percent of the patients will be under terrible silent pain, unable to scream because their muscles are frozen... The debate was about how much effort the state has to go to to prevent that (the answer is a "reasonable" effort, but not as much as required to completely foreclose the possibility because of the "outrageous" costs) and the whole cost/benefit thinking involved sort of presses the point why the state isn't very well equipped to deal with a lot of the issues in their gruesome details.
Scots Taffer on 22/12/2009 at 00:04
15mb pdf could do with a disclaimer fwiw.
I read through the first one, pretty uninteresting read tbh.
Now how about the last minutes and seconds of their victims transcribed?
edit: lol handgrenade
OnionBob on 22/12/2009 at 00:28
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
15mb pdf could do with a disclaimer fwiw.
I read through the first one, pretty uninteresting read tbh.
Now how about the last minutes and seconds of their victims transcribed?
edit: lol handgrenade
"Tocky's Razor"
Shakey-Lo on 22/12/2009 at 03:22
Reminds me of (
http://detainee063.com/2009) Detainee063.com, the interrogation log of Mohammed Al-Qahtani, as he was tortured by the USA in Guantanamo Bay.
