On Wednesday, the Virginia legislature passed a bill making the electric chair a go-to method of execution for death row inmates.
Since 1995, electrocution has been employed in Virginia but only if requested by the sentenced prisoner. In that time frame, only six of the 85 inmates executed in Virginia have chosen electrocution over lethal injection.
The new law allows electrocutions whenever lethal injection is not available.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, only six states – Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia – electrocute prisoners. The decision to bring back the electric chair in Virginia and other states is the consequence of two underlying factors.
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4 comments:
Firing squads would be more economically prudent
sounds good to me. i bet if it was on the national ballot most would support it
Lethal injection and electrocution is way too humane. Need to go back to hanging, guillotine, quartering, burned at a stake, etc. Go medieval on them.
Cool, put it on TV and we can make bets how long it will take to fry CHESTER THE GAY MAN MOLESTER...
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