JMB: I knew Rich Herzog slightly in the Army. The scum who let Matthews out of prison early, and his family, should all be locked up in the same cell as him, while he's awaiting that Long Walk.
Agreed.
BTW, does WA still use Old Sparky, or do we have something else? Listening to Christine Gregoire do her Janet Reno impression until you gnaw your own ears off, perhaps?
We have two options (the choice is granted to the condemned) hanging and lethal injection.
Having the choice is what led to the Mitchell Rupe fiasco. Rupe opted for hanging after being convicted of shooting two bank clerks. During the interminable wait to whack his dumba$$, he managed to bloat himself to well over 400+ lbs. He then instructed his attorney to petition the court to have his hanging overturned on the grounds that his head would be torn from his body due to his vast bulk. The liberal judge that heard the case so admired Rupe for his brilliant effort to weasel out of his sentence, that he granted Rupe's motion for stay, on the grounds that it is "cruel and unusual" to subject a "person of size" to hanging.
The 9th Circuit court of appeals (Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional) refused to overturn the lower courts ruling by refusing to hear the case.
However, it's my understanding that the OC should cause constriction of the airways, and involutary closure of the eyelids regardless of whether or not the assailant feels pain. Is that correct?
All of the eyewitnesses to Deputy Herzog's execution reported exactly the same thing. The OC spray was a direct hit into the face/mouth/eyes of the assailant, and that it had
ZERO!!!! effect. Which is consistent with the aftermath which saw Deputy Herzog run for his life, trip and fall after being hit multiple times with bullets from his own duty gun, at which point the assailant stood over the fallen deputy and put three rounds straight into the back of his head. That sure is a whole lot of running with a constricted airway, and even more uncanny are the numerous direct hits on what was initially a running, and then prostrate target with eyes swollen shut.
To make the situation even more tragic and stupid, the officers that responded to arrest the perp employed pepper spray and tasers to
ZERO!!!! effect. It took four deputies to eventually overwhelm the perp who was on crack at the time of his capture.
With the outrageous price of one dead deputy, and several thousand dollars worth of tasers and Bull$H*T OC Spray, I'm going to go waaaayyy out on a limb and say that a 29 %&$#ing cent bullet would have been cheaper.
Honest to God, I can barely take any of this BS anymore.