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[–] tal@lemmy.today 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_in_the_United_States

Currently, only New Hampshire has a law specifying hanging as an available secondary method of execution, now only applicable to one person, who was sentenced to capital punishment by the state prior to its repeal in 2019.

The hanging of Billy Bailey is likely to be the final hanging in the United States, considering that all three of the states that maintained hanging as a secondary method of execution alongside lethal injection after the 1976 restoration of the death penalty have now abolished executions. Delaware's Supreme Court declared the death penalty to be in violation of their state constitution in 2016,[21] Washington abolished executions in 2018,[22] and New Hampshire abolished executions in 2019.[23] However, the last person on death row in the three states is Michael K. Addison in New Hampshire, convicted in 2008 of the 2006 murder of Michael Briggs, an on-duty police officer. Should the state carry out Addison's execution, the method could be hanging if lethal injection was found unconstitutional or inefficient, or if he chooses to be executed by hanging.

Talk about a go-down-in-the-history-books opportunity.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Since the last execution in New Hampshire was a botched hanging in 1939 that took 6 minutes for the guy to die, I kind of doubt the court would allow them to go through with that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Long

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lol, wait until the current admin threatens to withhold funds for not hanging X amount of criminals per month.

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[–] swade2569@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Seems like a guillotine would be far more humane. No 80 seconds of breathing - man that must be like an eternity of pain.

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[–] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

All killing is murder, states are just gangs big enough to have a PR team and the ability to indoctrinate the youth into following their rules.

Good on South Carolina for making that more plain.

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

The state having a Monopoly on violence is sort of the point of a social contract. That being said I'm not a proponent of the death penalty. Life is sacred.

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