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Posted on 10-25-2007 at 02:19pm
The Death Penalty Is Weird
Filed Under (Crime) by badbadivy on 10-25-2007

Ginger went to the Death Penalty Legislative Study Committee and witnessed an interesting exchange:

Fr. Strobel: “I hope this question is not out of order, yet I’d like to just see it in the context of the entire execution: As the person to be executed is brought to the chamber, what if he or she were to have a massive heart attack? What would be done?”

Ms. Inglis: “Um, during the death watch period?”

Fr. Strobel: “Right before they are getting strapped in.”

Ms. Inglis: “Um, I think emergency treatment would be provided.”

Fr. Strobel: “So we would bring them back in order to kill them in a few minutes?”

Ms. Inglis: “I think we would, yes.”

Fr. Strobel: “Isn’t that a schizoid sort of way of thinking?”

Ms. Inglis: “I prefer not to comment.”

Fr. Strobel: “Yeah, I know, I just think…it’s sort of the insanity of the whole event.”

Seems pretty bizarre to me, too. Ginger’s got a lot more over at her place.

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Comments

Ned Williams on 25 October, 2007 at 4:29 pm #

Well, you wouldn’t want the poor lil rascal dead in the event that the Governor called at the last minute to commute the sentence, would you?

And assuming we all agree with “rule of law,” who–among the people in the death chamber, would have the right to decide that his untimely death was okay?

I don’t doubt that he’s sincere, but I would posit that Fr. Strobel’s hypothetical exercises are at least equally deserving of disparaging mental illness references like “schizoid” and “insan[e].”


Katherine Coble on 25 October, 2007 at 6:38 pm #

What Ned said.


democommie on 25 October, 2007 at 8:34 pm #

but,but, I thought GOD had the world in his hands and that he could handle the tough decisions. I mean if he wants to expedite they guy’s demise, who are we to argue?