Pros And Cons Of The Electric Chair

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The governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe has blocked a bill that would have required inmates on death-row to be electrocuted by the electrical chair. Virginia is one of eight states that allows electrocution as a method of execution.

Instead of the electric chair being a mandatory way of execution, inmates with have the ability to choose if they want the electric chair or not. Lethal injection serves as the default is no choice is made.

Since 1995, when prisoners were first given the choice, 80 inmates have been executed by injection. Seven picked the chair.

Virginia has executed 111 convicted murderers since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977.

Although he has blocked the bill, Gov. Terry McAuliffe, “he offered an amendment that …show more content…
Inmate Ricky Gray, who killed six people in Richmond in 2006, had been scheduled for execution on March 16, adding urgency to the legislative debate.

Gray's execution has been postponed by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, pending a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court about whether to hear the case.

Gray has not made it clear to the court which method of execution he preferred.

"The electric chair is outdated and barbaric," Senator Scott Surovell, a Democrat from northern Virginia, said during a floor debate.

According to AOL, “State Senator Mark Obenshain, a Republican from the Shenandoah Valley, argued that if the amendment passed it would have further delayed execution of death row inmates.”

"Some (people) just have black hearts. They're beyond redemption," said Obenshain, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for state attorney general in 2013.

The state of Virginia is now facing a shortage of lethal injection drugs. In order to fix this issue, Gov. McAuliffe suggested maintaining the death penalty in Virginia by allowing the state to get the drugs from unidentified pharmacies, keeping it a

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