Death Penalty

[RaisdCath]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/05/...ric-chair/

Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law Thursday allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event prisons are unable to obtain the drugs, which have become more and more scarce following a European-led boycott of drug sales for executions.

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Tennessee is the first state to enact a law to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that opposes executions and tracks the issue.

I disagree with the death penalty in the first place, it's my opinion that lex talionis solves nothing, but this is just... sickening.

Opinions?

My very humble thoughts on the matter.....
1. The death penalty for named offenses is the law. To abolish the death penalty, the law must be changed. Those who disagree with the current law must work to change it.
2. The method of execution of the condemned should be first and foremost, effective. "Cruel and unusual" must be defined in law. Today, it is not. This leaves the way open for the ACLU to whine and complain most vociferously regardless of method used.
3. One of the mail problems with the death penalty in the US is the inordinate and ridiculous amount of time that passes between the sentencing and the carrying out of the sentence. Many of the condemned wait 10 years or more for their date "with the executioner". To be sure, memories of the event that deserved the penalty are dim by that time to be sure.
4. Personally, I do not disagree with the death penalty; I disagree most violently with the time it takes to complete the process.

Here's a potential fix.... (IMHO).

Each verdict of death by execution will be review within 24 hours by a panel of three federal judges. The judges will be required to serve this function if selected. If they have a problem with this, they may not serve as a federal judge.
These judges will be selected by a "random drawing" process after names have been submitted by the Supreme Court (27 names will be submitted).
The three judges will serve for a period of exactly 24 months. If a case review is in process at the time their term expires, they will complete the case review during a term extension that will last a maximum of 15 calendar days....no longer.
The next three judges will be selected using the same process.
Case reviews will be completed within 15 calendar days.
All three judges must agree with the sentencing of the court. If any of them disagree, the case will be immediately returned to the court that passed sentence for appeal.
If all three judges agree with the court's verdict, then the sentence of execution of the condemned will take place within 48 hours of the of the verdict.
Methods of execution: firing squad, electrocution, hanging, drugs. The victim's survivors will select the method of execution. If they cannot or will not name it, the judge of the original sentencing court will select the method.

Well..................??