Tennessee brings back electric chair

[yortsed snacilbuper]

Tennessee lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the electric chair legislation in April, with the Senate voting 23-3 and the House 68-13 in favor of the bill.

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[NuclearDem]

1. Ugh.

[Squinch]

2. I would think a firing squad would be more humane.

[TeeYiYi]

7. Utah is actually...

...trying to bring back firing squads.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/17/utah-lawmaker-firing-squad/9211225/

TYY

[Ed Suspicious]

3. And still no guillotine for financial and corporate terrorists?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Lord Acton

Though I would certainly find it difficult to find the Tennessee lawmakers "the ablest men".

[Niceguy1]

5. that a shocking

Development.

I hipe the local opposition amps up there efforts.

[geomon666]

6. Oh joy

We're going back to cooking people from the inside out with electricity.

[spanone]

8. tennessee: house, senate, gubnor.....reTHUGS

we are going down the proverbial toilet

[Nye Bevan]

9. Fuck this medieval barbarity.

Let's just abolish the death penalty like most of the rest of the civilized world.

[hatrack]

10. Why stop there? Why not strappado? Guillotine? Drawing and quartering?

Will anything satisfy the Devonian-era bloodlust of these knuckle-dragging asscarrots?