The Death Penalty

Since the botched execution in Oklahoma http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/01/us/oklahoma-botched-execution/,  the death penalty has been in the news again.

Most recently, the State of Tennessee has resurrected the use of the electric chair http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tennessee-brings-back-electric-chair/

Really? The electric chair? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair The common myth is that Edison invented the electric chair to prove the dangers of alternating current.

The history of the electric chair includes that it has been considered cruel and unusual punishment.

I would consider it cruel and unusual punishment.

I am wondering if the various political and governmental organizations don't get it.  Drug companies do not want to participate in executions. So they are discontinuing their production of drugs that are used for these executions. 

Doesn't that raise a red flag to politicians and government officials?  If drug companies do not want to participate in government sanctioned executions, wouldn't you think that the governments involved would re-think these executions.

I am appalled that these governments are trying to circumvent these means of executions, and trying to find other ways to conduct lethal executions of criminals.

How sad.