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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Lone Star State's Longest Death Penalty Hiatus Ends, as Does Convict
AUSTIN, Texas (EP) -- A 25-year-old man was publicly executed Wednesday on live television by electric chair, stoning, lethal injection, hanging, and firing squad for having said, "Mexicans are okay," for disparaging Chuck Norris, and for not being a Southern Baptist. It was the state's first execution in 60 hours.
Charles Darwin Evans, of Lubbock, was pronounced dead at 10:11 p.m, 10:25 PM, 11:35 PM, 11:45 PM, and one minute to midnight.
Governor Rick Perry (GOP) had postponed Page's execution Monday over concerns that a 1984 state law requiring the use of a four-method execution could put prison officials at legal risk if they instead administered the more entertaining five-method combination that is now the State's standard. The Texas legislature met in special session Tuesday and passed a new law that allows prison officials to "... kill people any damn way they like."
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/12/2007 09:18:53
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Ricky
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JEROME DA GNOME
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The state should not have the right to kill criminals.
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/12/2007 : 15:54:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
The convicts last words were, "This".
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You know, I not only don't know the reference for that, but I also doubt that Googling "this" will help solve the mystery.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/12/2007 : 16:17:58 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Ricky
The convicts last words were, "This".
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You know, I not only don't know the reference for that, but I also doubt that Googling "this" will help solve the mystery.
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It's a death sentence word game...next convict in line for the eternal trip down the dead end street will have their "one word" to add to "This". It's a short story; a few pages long. Should be complete in a matter of a couple of months.
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"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/12/2007 : 17:00:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Randy
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by Ricky
The convicts last words were, "This".
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You know, I not only don't know the reference for that, but I also doubt that Googling "this" will help solve the mystery.
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It's a death sentence word game...next convict in line for the eternal trip down the dead end street will have their "one word" to add to "This". It's a short story; a few pages long. Should be complete in a matter of a couple of months.
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Very nice. I (or somebody) was supposed to ask, I presume?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 07/12/2007 : 17:15:51 [Permalink]
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I have an idea; let's give Texas back to Mexico!
That way we can at least partially alleviate the immigration problem and rid ourselves of a nuisance in the bargain. It'd be worth it if only to get rid of Bush.
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JohnOAS
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Australia
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Posted - 07/12/2007 : 17:38:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
The state should not have the right to kill criminals.
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If only all your posts were that funny. |
John's just this guy, you know. |
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JEROME DA GNOME
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 Posted - 07/12/2007 : 18:43:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JohnOAS
Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
The state should not have the right to kill criminals.
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If only all your posts were that funny.
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Why is that funny?
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell |
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Ricky
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Hawks
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Posted - 07/12/2007 : 19:01:46 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
I have an idea; let's give Texas back to Mexico!
That way we can at least partially alleviate the immigration problem and rid ourselves of a nuisance in the bargain. It'd be worth it if only to get rid of Bush.
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It might be easier to stop illegal immigration if you instead invaded and occupied Central America all the way to the Panama Canal. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Posted - 07/12/2007 : 19:50:08 [Permalink]
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/12/2007 : 20:28:53 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
Originally posted by filthy
I have an idea; let's give Texas back to Mexico!
That way we can at least partially alleviate the immigration problem and rid ourselves of a nuisance in the bargain. It'd be worth it if only to get rid of Bush.
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It might be easier to stop illegal immigration if you instead invaded and occupied Central America all the way to the Panama Canal.
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Been there, done that.
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JohnOAS
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Posted - 07/12/2007 : 23:52:39 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
Originally posted by JohnOAS
Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
The state should not have the right to kill criminals.
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If only all your posts were that funny.
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Why is that funny?
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Because this is the Moonscape News folder.
Do you also write letters to Mad Magzazine suggesting that they really shouldn't fold buildings or personalities so maliciously on the back cover? |
John's just this guy, you know. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/13/2007 : 00:11:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
I have an idea; let's give Texas back to Mexico!
That way we can at least partially alleviate the immigration problem and rid ourselves of a nuisance in the bargain. It'd be worth it if only to get rid of Bush.
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I'm not sure they'd want it back. It's collected a lot of questionable mutations -- and Texans Southern Baptists -- since Mexico lost it.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/13/2007 : 03:11:43 [Permalink]
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This wasn't intended as a "Find Waldo" assignment, but some few of you may have noticed from whence the OP arose, and some few may not have. It was from my reading of an CNN article, titled. "South Dakota carries out first execution in 60 years". That headline got me thinking about South Dakota in vivid contrast with the ghoul-haunted midlands of Baptist-ridden Texas, The State That Knows How to Lynch. After that, my story just wrote itself.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Texas carries out first execution in 60 hours
