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    I half hope those idiots Atwood and Dixon choose the excruciatingly painful gas. They'll think they're making a point when in reality they will be giving us exactly what we want - real retribution.
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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    The inmates in South Carolina are lucky that Nikki Haley’s clones in the legislature accepted that amendment to allow death by firing squad they aren’t going to use it.

    As for Gas Chamber Aaron, it’ll be nice to see the haggard Dixon and Atwood choose that method on their old brittle bodies.
    Last edited by Neil; 05-28-2021 at 02:31 PM.

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    The attorney pointed out that there is a discrepancy between the potassium cyanide that has been obtained by the corrections department and the state’s execution protocol which stipulates that sodium cyanide must be used. “This is not a small detail – the specific compound is vitally important,” he said.
    Doesn't he have a point here? I guess judges are likely to rule that this is not in accordance with the protocol...

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    The two salts are practically interchangeable for most purposes. It is the CN- ion that matters, not the alkali cation. Unfortunately the protocol is more specific than it needs to be.

    In principle, especially as they bought NaOH, they could use the sulfuric acid to produce the HCN, trap it and then produce the NaCN by bubbling the HCN through an aqueous solution of the NaOH, but I would think ordering the right stuff in the first place would be easier.

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    Corrections department officials aren't the smartest people on the planet.

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    Someone from my church moved to Huntsville to organize the TDCJ into the service employees union and of all the wonderful things she had to say about them none had anything to do with intelligence or competence.

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    Well it doesn't exactly do much for our optics that the only active death penalty states are the room temperature IQ bottom 10 in education states.
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    So after a 7 year wait and hype over gas they pick lethal injection anyway. HAAAAA. Great job AZ! Are all of these states trying to be the biggest clowns? Because that's the only vibe I'm getting from them. None of these efforts seem serious at all but just empty pandering to their bases.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Projected Execution Dates Halted for 2 Arizona Inmates

    The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday threw out the schedule that would lead to the execution warrants for two death row inmates, delaying the projected dates for their executions.

    PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday threw out the schedule that would lead to the execution warrants for two death row inmates, delaying the projected dates for their executions.

    Prosecutors now will have to do more testing of the state’s lethal injection drug before seeking execution warrants for Clarence Dixon and Frank Atwood. The two men are the first death row prisoners in Arizona to be eyed for execution since the 2014 death of Joseph Wood, who was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination over two hours.

    Prosecutors asked the state’s high court late last month to modify the schedules in their bid to get an execution warrant for Dixon after they revealed the shelf life of Arizona’s lethal injection drug was half as long as they previously thought.

    The changes were being sought to accommodate for the drug’s shorter shelf life and keep the projected Oct. 19 execution date for Dixon on track.

    States including Arizona have struggled to buy execution drugs in recent years after U.S. and European pharmaceutical companies began blocking the use of their products in lethal injections. Arizona corrections officials revealed earlier this year that they had finally obtained a lethal injection drug and were ready to resume executions.

    In a July 6 filing, Dixon’s lawyer Cary Sandman said the state’s new scheduling proposal would give her only four days to respond to the execution warrant request. She had 10 days under the current schedule.

    The high court on Monday denied the state Attorney General’s request to modify the briefing process for issuing the execution warrants and vacated the schedules.

    Atwood was facing a potential late September execution date.

    Dixon’s execution date was based around a belief by a compounding pharmacist that the drug pentobarbital had a shelf life of 90 days.

    The state now says until specialized testing on a sample batch of the drug is done, the shelf life of the pentobarbital to be compounded for Dixon’s execution would be 45 days.

    Dixon was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1978 killing of Deana Bowdoin, a 21-year-old Arizona State University student.

    Atwood was convicted in Pima County and sentenced to death for killing 8-year-old Vicki Lynn Hoskinson in 1984. Authorities said Atwood kidnapped the girl and her body later was found in the desert northwest of Tucson.

    Arizona has 115 inmates on death row.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...rizona-inmates

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    All that talk Brnovich did only for the executions to get shot down. Texas is literally the only death penalty state left standing at this point.

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