Virginia Moves to Bring Back Chair as Primary Execution Method


Virginia moved a step closer Wednesday to using the electric chair as its first-line method of death-row executions, two reports said.

The Washington Post reported the House of Delegates passed a bill making electrocutions the default method; currently, the chair is only used upon specific request of the sentenced inmate.

A Senate version of the bill is in committee and, if ultimately passed, would need the signature of Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

"It's a barbaric way for the state to execute people," Democratic Del. Scott. Surovell of Fairfax told The Post after the vote. "It's disappointing to me that my colleagues want to take a step backwards."

Only four states still use the chair — Alabama, Virginia, Florida and South Carolina, The Post reported, citing data from the Death Penalty Information Center; Kentucky and Tennessee allow use of the chair for crimes committed before 1998. All only use the chair for inmates who request it.

The electric chair was last used in Virginia in January 2013, when Robert Gleason Jr. chose to die by electrocution, the first prisoner since 2010 to do so.

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WOW! how timely is this? 

I have no objection to putting cold blooded murderers down like dogs.  Thry don't deserve my compassion.  This man shot a police officer three times in the back of his head.  He was arrested, placed in a patrol car but somehow he had a concealed gun so he executed the officer.  The officer made a mistake in not finding the concealed weapon, but it was the last mistake he ever made.  Why do bleeding hearts not consider the harm this man has done?  He took away a son, father, husband, uncle, etc. etc.  Apparently he is mentally handicapped, but he was intelligent enough to hide a gun on his person, draw it, and fire it three times.  If he were spared, could society expect anything constructive from him?

Good riddance.

Go Texas....Rehabilitate another MFkR....

Quote from: redbeard on January 22, 2014, 02:49:58 PM
Personally I'm against lethal injection. Putting some to sleep like a dog is just wrong!!
I think. in Florida we need to bring back Ol' Sparky and put it on a rheostat that we can bring up one click at a time so we can prevent catching them on fire!

I'll bring the marshmallows!!!

Reddy Kilowatt --- a friend we can trust.

But if your coal-fired local utility was shut down by the communist trash at EPA, then use rope.

Gravity WORKS.

Quote from: JRP1990 on January 22, 2014, 02:52:06 PM
What about the 8th Amendment?

What about the 6th Commandment?

Actually I believe that we could get some of the technical genuises, which with this country abounds, to invent a newer, improved, electric chair. Or perhaps a gas chamber, using a faster acting, instantly deadly gas. Actually, I've always been against the death penalty. Not on the grounds that there aren't people out there that deserve death. Heck we have people out there that deserved to be slow tortured to death. But where human beings are involved, there is always the possibility of error and it isn't within our power to correct those errors.