The Last Word (I Hope) on The Death Penalty on P&CE

He's dead. It was successful by definition. Was it cruel and unusual? Almost certainly.

 

Beheading or flattening someone with a steamroller in front of the Alabammy statehouse will also do the trick

 

The Supreme Court hasn't said it was.

 

Indeed it will.

 

Dangnabit! 'Merica can't even execute our criminals right any more. Another Biden fail!

Officials in Idaho on Wednesday halted the execution of death row inmate and serial killer Thomas Creech after they were unable to set an intravenous line to carry out a lethal injection, according to a news release from the state Department of Correction.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/28/us/thomas-creech-idaho-execution-fails/index.html

 

They'll go to the firing squad next.

 

We joke about guillotines for billionaires but Vietnam is actually going there

Vietnam tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to death in $12.5bn fraud case https://t.co/FwYNrM4CIR pic.twitter.com/NKdOpV0l2n

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 11, 2024

 

According to World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, embezzlement of 500 million dong (about 20K USD) is a death penalty offense.