Electric Chair to return to South Carolina
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In all of these morbid spectacles the overlying image projected into my mind was one of intense suffering in all but one case. That case were those condemned dispatched via lethal injection.
Then the pharmaceutical industry got all self righteous saying that their product couldn't be used for executions and therein lay the beginning of the end for an attempt at humane executions.
It is my personal opinion that those states who wish to utilize lethal injection seize the patents on whatever drugs they need, preferably the trusted tried and true three drug cocktail and go about their business and the pharmaceutical industry be damned.
Besides, the state will seize any OTHER patent it chooses for whatever reason it chooses to concoct. Why not do somethig which benefits the condemned for a change.
In a move which is secondary to the pharmaceutical industry alleging that they may control the use of products bought from them, the senate of the state of South Carolia has approved the use of the electric chair in those executions where lethal injection is unavailable.
The bill was initiated by William Timmons of Greenville in an effort to ensure certainty that the sentences imposed by law are carried out and not modified by some prosecutor seeking life terms in the name of expediency.
So we will devolve to a more savage time in history just one step up from the public hangings we all enjoyed as the troglodytes we once were due to the "forward thinking" pharmaceutical industries and their attempt to enact some misguided 'virtue signaling' which simply doesn't wash in the reality of that cruel punishment which now awaits the convicted in capital cases.
These pharmaceutical social justice warriors have simply relegated those they were trying to save to a more difficult end than would have been otherwise.