And they are doing it with ol' sparky (the electric chair), per the prisoner's request.

Story here

Details here.

May Paul Powell suffer as much as possible in the chair. Cases like his are why we still have capital punishment.

Ant

No remorse :(

I read the second link and wanted to hurl.  I fully support this guy having a ripping good time riding ol' Sparky, although this comment:

I support life for Powell only if he is flogged every morning, noon and night with a cat o nine tails. Flogged until he screams for mercy. Oh, if only I could be in charge of the prison system. He would be forced to clean toilets for all the black inmates of the prison; he would be forced to apologize every day of his life, with each flogging.

...on that last link had me chuckling and thinking, "Too bad we couldn't..."

This guy is getting what he wants, he obviously has set it up that way.  This is a state sponsored suicide.

One would think that an execution conducted on July 14 would more appropriately be done via guillotine.

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This guy is getting what he wants, he obviously has set it up that way.  This is a state sponsored suicide.
well said. capital punishment is helping this guy. he'd suffer more with a life sentence.

This guy is getting what he wants, he obviously has set it up that way.  This is a state sponsored suicide.


Keep him alive and miserable.

This guy is getting what he wants, he obviously has set it up that way.  This is a state sponsored suicide.


Absolutely.  This guy Powell sounds like the worst kind of craven sonofabitch psychopath and his little joke is on all of you getting the thrill vicarious vengeance outta him getting fried.  I'd rather just see him die in 50 years when nobody remembers his name and he's still sitting in the same stinking maximum security cell.  

Gary Gilmore murdered two men in Utah back in the 1976 and the first man executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court reinstated the capital punishment as Constitutional.  However, he is most famous for choosing the firing squad.  Gilmore, a lifelong crook and no-goodnik, got national press attention for months surrounding his execution in January of 1977.  On top of that, Norman Mailer ensured Gilmore's infamy would live on in the novel "The Executioner's Song," which was then made into a movie starring Tommy Lee Jones as Gary and Roseanna Arquette as Gary's wife.  Gilmore got to end his own miserable life in a blaze of gunfire and become immortalized in the gallery of great American criminals.  With no death penalty, Gilmore would still be rotting in prison, aging and alone, and nobody would give a f**k about him.  Like revenge?  Which one sounds better?

On top of that, I'm still against capital punishment on principle.  I don't forgo this principle because a scumbag like Paul Powell commits a stomach-turning crime.

Absolutely.  This guy Powell sounds like the worst kind of craven sonofabitch psychopath and his little joke is on all of you getting the thrill vicarious vengeance outta him getting fried.  I'd rather just see him die in 50 years when nobody remembers his name and he's still sitting in the same stinking maximum security cell.  

Gary Gilmore murdered two men in Utah back in the 1976 and the first man executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court reinstated the capital punishment as Constitutional.  However, he is most famous for choosing the firing squad.  Gilmore, a lifelong crook and no-goodnik, got national press attention for months surrounding his execution in January of 1977.  On top of that, Norman Mailer ensured Gilmore's infamy would live on in the novel "The Executioner's Song," which was then made into a movie starring Tommy Lee Jones as Gary and Roseanna Arquette as Gary's wife.  Gilmore got to end his own miserable life in a blaze of gunfire and become immortalized in the gallery of great American criminals.  With no death penalty, Gilmore would still be rotting in prison, aging and alone, and nobody would give a f**k about him.  Like revenge?  Which one sounds better?

On top of that, I'm still against capital punishment on principle.  I don't forgo this principle because a scumbag like Paul Powell commits a stomach-turning crime.


Perhaps we put him into prison for life, with his 'nards firmly in a vise.  Arrange the vise such that every time he breathes in, the vise gets just a little tighter.

Prometheus was the dude who kept having his liver eaten, right?

Prometheus was the dude who kept having his liver eaten, right?


That's what happens when you f**k with Zeus, OG!

Prometheus also stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mankind.

See, if the Christian god had taken a hint from Mount Olympus and did the same thing to Lucifer, he could have saved us all a lot of hassles.  Instead, he just kicked Lucifer out with his homies and they started their own place.
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