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Originally Posted by Stealhead

That paying to watch is fun.

Originally Posted by Armistead

We should make it pay for view to cover the cost and maybe get a message across.. Don't trust the govt. for a proper execution!

Something to think about before you kill people.

A conservative federal appeals judge called for replacing lethal injection with firing squads: "Using drugs meant for individuals with medical needs to carry out executions is a misguided effort to mask the brutality of executions by making them look serene and beautiful — like something any one of us might experience in our final moments," U.S. 9th Circuit Court Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote in a dissent in the Arizona death penalty case of Joseph Rudolph Wood III.
"But executions are, in fact, brutal, savage events, and nothing the state tries to do can mask that reality. Nor should we. If we as a society want to carry out executions, we should be willing to face the fact that the state is committing a horrendous brutality on our behalf....I personally think we should go to the guillotine, but shooting is probably the right way to go," Kozinski said." I personally disagree as wild crime ridden river-town Napa has a history of its own. Napa has the dubious distinction of being the site of the last public hanging in the state. It happened back in 1897 for a murder that so enraged the Napa community that instead of sending the criminal to San Quentin Prison, the judge turned the responsibility over to the Napa sheriff so the hanging could occur in the Napa County Jail yard. In preparing for the hanging, the sheriff hired carpenters to build a corrugated iron fence enclosure in the county jail's yard. It was 40 feet long and 34 feet wide. He also ordered a platform for visitors to view the hanging. 400 tickets were sold and the rope cut into souvenirs; the noose was retained by the sheriff.
"January 15, 1897, Roe was led from the jail to the wooden gallows. A photographer was present to take the official photo. One of the doctors who attended Roe's autopsy managed to get hold of the body and took the bones to a roof in downtown Napa to bleach them. He then put the skeleton back together. It reportedly was used to teach high school students taking biology courses. Eventually it disappeared in the '60s, and its whereabouts are unknown today." A proper hanging can be a career stepping stone: "In 1870, Grover Cleveland was elected sheriff of Erie County, New York, in which capacity he personally oversaw the hanging of two condemned men. On September 6, 1872, Grover Cleveland personally served as the hangman to the convicted murderer Patrick Morrissey. So infamous was the murderer, his execution was covered by the New York Times. Morrisey had stabbed his widowed mother to death while drunk.
The Erie County Sheriff was empowered to carry out death sentences, and instead of delegating the job to one of his deputies or an assistant, he decided to take responsibility for the handing of Morrissey himself. He tripped the engine of execution with his own hands, as he would again, on February 14, 1873, when he again personally hanged another murderer, John Gaffney. Both executions took place in public. The Republicans hung on him the pejorative nickname "The Buffalo Hangman.". Within 11 years the chief executioner was a 'hands on' chief executive.