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Dog-Killer Mike Vick Signs with the Jets. Was HSUS His Reference?

Discussion in 'Dog Blogs' started by HumaneWatch, Mar 24, 2014.

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  1. Vicki

    Vicki Administrator Staff Member

    Death by Electrocution

    Seeking a more humane method of execution than hanging, New York built the first electric chair in 1888 and executed William Kemmler in 1890. Soon, other states adopted this execution method. Today, electrocution is not used as the sole method of execution in any state. Electrocution was the sole method in Nebraska until the State Supreme Court ruled the method unconstitutional in February 2008. For execution by the electric chair, the person is usually shaved and strapped to a chair with belts that cross his chest, groin, legs, and arms. A metal skullcap-shaped electrode is attached to the scalp and forehead over a sponge moistened with saline. The sponge must not be too wet or the saline short-circuits the electric current, and not too dry, as it would then have a very high resistance. An additional electrode is moistened with conductive jelly (Electro-Creme) and attached to a portion of the prisoner's leg that has been shaved to reduce resistance to electricity. The prisoner is then blindfolded. (Hillman, 1992 and Weisberg, 1991) After the execution team has withdrawn to the observation room, the warden signals the executioner, who pulls a handle to connect the power supply. A jolt of between 500 and 2000 volts, which lasts for about 30 seconds, is given. The current surges and is then turned off, at which time the body is seen to relax. The doctors wait a few seconds for the body to cool down and then check to see if the inmate's heart is still beating. If it is, another jolt is applied. This process continues until the prisoner is dead. The prisoner's hands often grip the chair and there may be violent movement of the limbs which can result in dislocation or fractures. The tissues swell. Defecation occurs. Steam or smoke rises and there is a smell of burning. (Hillman, 1992 and Weisberg, 1991) U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan once offered the following description of an execution by electric chair:

    ...the prisoner's eyeballs sometimes pop out and rest on [his] cheeks. The prisoner often defecates, urinates, and vomits blood and drool. The body turns bright red as its temperature rises, and the prisoner's flesh swells and his skin stretches to the point of breaking. Sometimes the prisoner catches fire....Witnesses hear a loud and sustained sound like bacon frying, and the sickly sweet smell of burning flesh permeates the chamber. (Ecenbarger, 1994)

    At postmortem, the body is hot enough to blister if touched, and the autopsy is delayed while the internal organs cool. There are third degree burns with blackening where the electrodes met the skin of the scalp and legs. According to Robert H. Kirschner, the deputy chief medical examiner of Cook County, "The brain appears cooked in most cases." (Weisberg, 1991)
     
  2. Vicki

    Vicki Administrator Staff Member

    Death by Hanging

    Until the 1890s, hanging was the primary method of execution used in the United States. Hanging is still used in Delaware and Washington, although both have lethal injection as an alternative method of execution.
    For execution by this method, the inmate may be weighed the day before the execution, and a rehearsal is done using a sandbag of the same weight as the prisoner. This is to determine the length of 'drop' necessary to ensure a quick death. If the rope is too long, the inmate could be decapitated, and if it is too short, the strangulation could take as long as 45 minutes. The rope, which should be 3/4-inch to 1 1/4-inch in diameter, must be boiled and stretched to eliminate spring or coiling. The knot should be lubricated with wax or soap "to ensure a smooth sliding action," according to the 1969 U.S. Army manual. (The Corrections Professional, 1996 and Hillman, 1992)
    Immediately before the execution, the prisoner's hands and legs are secured, he or she is blindfolded, and the noose is placed around the neck, with the knot behind the left ear. The execution takes place when a trap-door is opened and the prisoner falls through. The prisoner's weight should cause a rapid fracture-dislocation of the neck. However, instantaneous death rarely occurs. (Weisberg, 1991)
    If the inmate has strong neck muscles, is very light, if the 'drop' is too short, or the noose has been wrongly positioned, the fracture-dislocation is not rapid and death results from slow asphyxiation. If this occurs the face becomes engorged, the tongue protrudes, the eyes pop, the body defecates, and violent movements of the limbs occur. (The Corrections Professional, 1996 and Weisberg, 1991)
     
  3. Michele

    Michele CH Dog Super Moderator

    The bottom line for me is this. Yes, he served his time but he has no remorse. I can have compassion for anyone that has remorse and learns from their mistake. What I can never forgive, is the abuse.

    Agree to disagree with regard to this thread.

    Just because I do not own this breed does not mean I don't have any hands on experience, GOOD hands on experience. You choose to bash a person that doesn't have the breed instead of educating them, as do a few others here. You are the ones that will be the demise of this breed, by your ignorance and by YOUR lack of compassion to try to teach others that are less knowledgeable.

    You don't know anything about me so until you do, please don't assume.
     
  4. slim12

    slim12 Super Moderator Staff Member

    This is a great post. All dogs involved in a raid are under fed, emaciated, unhealthy, blah, blah, blah. Then the video rolls and the dogs look good and well kept for the most part. But a story can't be sold or hyped with a lead of "although involved in dog fighting the dogs were happy and healthy, well fed and well cared for". Just does not work that way.

    Secondly, the electrocution route comes about because of the harsh gun laws in many states. And again, like I said in another post, a NFL player killed another human being along the same time without a lot of public outcry. The percentage of people who speak out about capital punishment is low in comparison to the people who spoke out against Mike Vick. We can kill a person by drunk driving, then electrocute a dog, and then electrocute a human being. Two of the three are old news within a day or so (with exception to the families involved of course).

    It is not like I know MV, or expect a payday of sorts, or am a huge fan. It is more along the lines of 'he did the crime and he did the time', so let's move on. Every time he signs a contract or throws a pass the dog fighting comments should not be the lead to the story.

    And at the same time, I am grateful to live in a place where every person has the right to not only voice his opinion, but stand by his beliefs. I do respect the offerings of others, tend to disagree, but appreciate the fact we can all keep speaking. S

    Good post AGK.






     
  5. Vicki

    Vicki Administrator Staff Member

    Attorneys call for halt of botched AZ execution an hour after ‘lethal’ injection

    Well.....this sounds ....ah....humane.

    BREAKING: Attorneys call for halt of botched AZ execution an hour after ‘lethal’ injection
    By David Ferguson
    Wednesday, July 23, 2014 19:31 EDT

    UPDATE: The Daily Mail reported that Joseph Wood died at 3:49 p.m. local time, one hour and 57 minutes after his execution began.

    In Arizona, the execution of a death row inmate by means of lethal injection went wrong Wednesday evening, prompting the prisoner’s attorneys to call for a halt to the procedure.

    According to NBC News, attorneys for Joseph Wood, 55, said that their client was still alive an hour after he was injected with the chemicals meant to end his life.

    Wood — who was convicted in 1989 in the shooting deaths of his girlfriend and her father — was still “gasping and snorting for more than an hour” after a mixture of the drugs midazolam and hydromorphone was injected into his system.

    The same drug cocktail was used in an Ohio execution earlier this year in which the condemned prisoner took more than 25 minutes to die. Wood’s execution had been postponed several times due to appeals based on his legal team’s mistrust of the state’s competency to carry out an execution with the available drugs.

    NBC reported that one of Wood’s attorneys said that the guillotine would be a more reliable and humane means of executing a prisoner than for state prisons to continue to experiment with lethal injection cocktails.

    Many U.S. prisons are struggling to obtain these drugs because pharmaceutical companies have refused to continue to supply them on moral grounds. An Oklahoma prisoner named Clayton Lockett was set to die in April. His execution went badly wrong when the vein into which the drugs were being administered collapsed.

    Lockett died en route to emergency care after prison officials and execution witnesses watched him struggle for more than 40 minutes after the administration of the execution drugs.

    BREAKING: Attorneys call for halt of botched AZ execution an hour after injection
     
  6. AGK

    AGK Super duper pooper scooper Administrator

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