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| David Earl Miller fails to survive 'Old Sparky' |
| 2018-12-07 |
| [FoxNews] NASHVILLE, Tenn. ‐ The Latest on an execution in Tennessee (all times local): 7:35 p.m. Tennessee has executed its longest-serving death row inmate, who became the second person to be killed in the state's electric chair in just over a month. Corrections officials say 61-year-old David Earl Miller was pronounced dead at 7:25 p.m. Thursday at a Nashville maximum-security prison. Miller was sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a mentally handicapped Knoxville woman. He had been on death row for 36 years. Miller chose to die in the electric chair after he failed to convince the courts that Tennessee's midazolam-based lethal injection method causes a prolonged and torturous death. Just over a month earlier, inmate Edmund Zagorski also chose the electric chair for his execution Nov. 1. Before Zagorski's death, there had been only one other electrocution since 1960. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 ...you can thank the imperial judiciary for the delay. Amendment V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Seems our esteem |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-12-07 06:42 |
| #1 36 years on death row? Are you kidding me? |
| Posted by: Clem 2018-12-07 05:24 |