Peterson is guilty

[ceebeegee]

And the jury found special circumstances--he's facing the death penalty.

I was very worried, but it seems for naught. I really thought this would be another OJ, but they were all polled and all said yes, unhesitatingly.

Comments

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

Fry him, I say.

[jayspec.livejournal.com]

That will be difficult, unless they make the gas in the chamber really really hot.

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

Figures with the shaky power grid in California the chair isn't an option.

[jayspec.livejournal.com]

And clearly they have seen the evils of Alternating Current - so powerful it can kill a man! Direct Current is clearly the wave of the future...

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

Direct Current can kill as well. Lightning is, after all, DC.

Interestingly, the last 8 executions in California have been by lethal injection. I wonder what the boiling point of the poison is...

[mysticblaze.livejournal.com]

The gas chamber was ruled cruel and unusual punishment and therefore unconstitutional on October 4, 1994. Lethal injection is now sole the method of execution.

However, don't think that the apple green gas chamber has not been used. They still strap them to the chair, and then inject them.

[minstrel70.livejournal.com]

I fail to understand how the gas chamber is cruel and unusual. Guess it's the nature of the gas. CO would be a painless and relatively fast (in high concentration) alternative.

Then again, we've got vast stockpiles of nerve agents in this country, some of which are lethal in seconds. Not exactly painless, though.

Eh, in any case, I think the firing squad is the way to go.

[mysticblaze.livejournal.com]

Yes, but a firing squad is only a legal method of execution in Idaho and Oklahoma. There are four convicts in Utah who requested firing squads prior to their being banned in that state on March 15, 2004 whose requests will be honored should they be executed.

As for why the gas chamber is considered cruel and unusual, the Courts have looked at the pain that the convict suffers as he/she is dying. Regardless of how much pain and suffering their victims had to go through, the convicts are supposed to be killed quickly and without feeling any pain. Something about that is terribly wrong, in my opinion.