03-12-2015, 08:01 PM
ADIOS, PENDEHO -- TEXAS
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The state of Texas killed ^ Manuel Vasquez today. He was convicted of killing a woman in 1998 for not paying the gang's drug "dime" tax (10%).
Vasquez was a Mexican Mafioso hit man. He and some of his fellow drunken gang members busted in on the woman and her boyfriend in a hotel room where they beat the boyfriend severely and Vasquez strangled 51-year-old Juanita Ybarra with a phone cord. The boyfriend survived and testified against Vasquez.
Texas is reportedly only one execution away from running out of its supply of death drugs and, like Utah, considering alternate execution methods.
Next week, Randall Mays is set to die for a 2007 shootout where two East Texas sheriff's deputies were killed.
Utah's Legislature gave final approval Tuesday night to a proposal to allow executions by firing squad if there is a drug shortage. Legislation to allow firing squads also has been introduced in Arkansas, while a Wyoming firing-squad measure failed. In Oklahoma, lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow the state to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates.
Is there any reason why a quick shot to the head should be considered an unacceptable or cruel means of execution as compared to lethal injection, in your opinion?
The state of Texas killed ^ Manuel Vasquez today. He was convicted of killing a woman in 1998 for not paying the gang's drug "dime" tax (10%).
Vasquez was a Mexican Mafioso hit man. He and some of his fellow drunken gang members busted in on the woman and her boyfriend in a hotel room where they beat the boyfriend severely and Vasquez strangled 51-year-old Juanita Ybarra with a phone cord. The boyfriend survived and testified against Vasquez.
Texas is reportedly only one execution away from running out of its supply of death drugs and, like Utah, considering alternate execution methods.
Next week, Randall Mays is set to die for a 2007 shootout where two East Texas sheriff's deputies were killed.
Utah's Legislature gave final approval Tuesday night to a proposal to allow executions by firing squad if there is a drug shortage. Legislation to allow firing squads also has been introduced in Arkansas, while a Wyoming firing-squad measure failed. In Oklahoma, lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow the state to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates.
Is there any reason why a quick shot to the head should be considered an unacceptable or cruel means of execution as compared to lethal injection, in your opinion?