Tag: James Wells

• Nitrogen Hypoxia – The Death Penalty’s Future?

  

  It’s never been done before and might never be used, but Alabama has announced its near-completion of a nitrogen gas chamber if it should prove impossible to obtain drugs for lethal injections. Far from dusting off its electric chair, (the notorious ‘Yellow Mama’) like Tennessee and South Carolina or offering firing squads as South Carolina…

  CrimeScribe

  June 10, 2021

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

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• Sparky’s Revenge; South Carolina considers reinstating the electric chair.

  

  So, the State of South Carolina (previously responsible for executing then exonerating 14-year old George Stinney)   is considering dusting off Old Sparky. Difficulties in obtaining lethal injection drugs have caused a backlog on Death Row. South Carolina has numerous condemned inmates, wants to start executing them, but can’t obtain the legally-approved means to do it.…

  CrimeScribe

  January 14, 2018

  True Crime, Uncategorized

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