08-09-2018, 12:29 PM
Tennessee
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^ Billy Ray Irick raped, sodomized, and strangled to death seven-year-old ^ Paula Dyer in April 1985. Rest in peace.
Tonight, the state of Tennessee is scheduled to execute him, the first execution there since 2009.
Tennessee limits last meal costs to $20. Irick has selected a burger and onion rings as his last meal and the supplier is being withheld for safety reasons.
Irick's attorneys have delayed his execution for years. His attorneys have filed a series of appeals through the decades, with claims of insanity and the unconstitutional use of the electric chair as a back-up to lethal injection.
In July Irick's attorney asked for the Tennessee Supreme Court to delay his execution once again amid a challenge to the state's lethal injection protocol.
As covered upthread, Europe stopped selling the traditional death drugs to the U.S. several years back on moral grounds and it's made it challenging for states to carry out executions in a manner that would not be deemed 'cruel and unusual punishment'.
If Irick is executed tonight, it will the first time Tennessee has used the new death cocktail of midazolam sedative, the muscle relaxer vecuronium bromid, followed by potassium chloride to stop the heart.
Story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-meal.html
^ Billy Ray Irick raped, sodomized, and strangled to death seven-year-old ^ Paula Dyer in April 1985. Rest in peace.
Tonight, the state of Tennessee is scheduled to execute him, the first execution there since 2009.
Tennessee limits last meal costs to $20. Irick has selected a burger and onion rings as his last meal and the supplier is being withheld for safety reasons.
Irick's attorneys have delayed his execution for years. His attorneys have filed a series of appeals through the decades, with claims of insanity and the unconstitutional use of the electric chair as a back-up to lethal injection.
In July Irick's attorney asked for the Tennessee Supreme Court to delay his execution once again amid a challenge to the state's lethal injection protocol.
As covered upthread, Europe stopped selling the traditional death drugs to the U.S. several years back on moral grounds and it's made it challenging for states to carry out executions in a manner that would not be deemed 'cruel and unusual punishment'.
If Irick is executed tonight, it will the first time Tennessee has used the new death cocktail of midazolam sedative, the muscle relaxer vecuronium bromid, followed by potassium chloride to stop the heart.
Story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-meal.html