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For those of you who need instant execution updates

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/04/23/execution-twitter.html?sid=101

Ohio considers using Twitter to announce executions Friday, April 23, 2010 9:46 AM

DAYTON DAILY NEWS VIA AP DAYTON -- A spokeswoman says Ohio's prison system has contemplated using Twitter to announce when an execution has been completed.

However, Communications Director Julie Walburn at the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction says she's concerned that tweeting about an inmate's time of death may be considered in poor taste.

She says the department still hasn't decided how to use Twitter and other social media to disseminate news.

Walburn says she's focused on trying to get the word out about executions quickly. When condemned inmate Darryl Durr died by lethal injection at 10:36 a.m. Tuesday, a news release was e-mailed to media outlets one minute later.

If they used the electric chair the locals would know in less than a minute.

The flickering lights should be a dead giveaway (pun intended)

BTW, anyone know why they swab the injection site with alcohol prior to a lethal injection?

Shawn

Trans_Maro wrote: If they used the electric chair the locals would know in less than a minute. The flickering lights should be a dead giveaway (pun intended) BTW, anyone know why they swab the injection site with alcohol prior to a lethal injection? Shawn

sadly, it's if the injection doesn't work and the subject lives with an infection

Gahh. This is one area that I sincerely feel that the KGB had the very best "painless" execution method. 9mm to the side of the head. Instantaneous, no pain, just slightly messy. Lot's better than electric chairs, lethal injections, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad, and cheaper, too. Although billing the family for the cartridge used could be considered a bit cruel.

An in-mate in Ohio was attempting a stay of execution based on he might be ALLERGIC to the execution cocktail. Duh! Thats the whole point.

http://nhregister.com/articles/2010/04/17/news/bb8alergy2nd041710.txt

I think I saw something on the news about a convict in Utah choosing the firing squad as his "end"????

edit: yeah, here it is; http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/04/23/general-us-utah-firing-squad_7542022.html?boxes=financechannelAP

I say bring back hanging... public hanging... if the rope brakes you're free to go... if the knot doesn't break your neck then you die by strangulation... too bad.. but what ever you did that was bad enough to warrant the death penalty probably makes the "cruel and unusual" punishment thing a moot point

Grtechguy wrote:

Trans_Maro wrote: If they used the electric chair the locals would know in less than a minute. The flickering lights should be a dead giveaway (pun intended) BTW, anyone know why they swab the injection site with alcohol prior to a lethal injection? Shawn

sadly, it's if the injection doesn't work and the subject lives with an infection

I think infection is the least of the problems you'll be having if you somehow manage to survive that chemical cocktail.

Shawn