Perhaps you have some idea about my other question relating to this.
The condemned person has three choices for execution method. If the pharmaceutical companies stopped selling the drug that allowed one method, why could they not just use the other two?
I mean, I don't want them to use any method but if they want the death penalty, what was wrong with offering the choice of two?

Is there some weird set-in-stone amendment that says they must have a choice of three or they don't get one at all?

firing squad, gas, a rope and tree or they can bring back the electric chair... They do not need drugs...
Many options to bring justice...

Having a choice reminded me of this:

That is good. My first thought was, how did being involved affect the children who are the actors.

This feels like it should be a Florida story, but it's not, it's from SC, South Carolina, not North!

A man, with an unspecified open investigation by the SLED (the SC state police) was being pursued by a sheriff's deputy when his vehicle, Chevy Suburban (large SUV) veered into the path of a logging tractor trailer. The driver being pursued was killed in the crash.


That's all very well, and sadly not remarkable in the US, so why did I post about this story? The dead driver was the town mayor of McColl, SC. I'm sure he was a fine upstanding citizen and the SLED investigation and sheriff pursuit were just unfortunate misunderstandings.

Did you mean to leave out the bit about how the entire police department of McColl quit the week before?

I didn't know that at the time I posted it, and only found that out this morning. It was also reported in the update that I saw this morning, that the deputy chasing him said something like "he wasn't suspected of a crime, he was being pursued for his own safety".

Yup, methinks there's a lot more WTFery to this story than has been reported.

This feels like it should be a Florida story, but was almost as far away as possible from Florida, at least within the contiguous 48 states. So two men died, apparently of exposure, in Washington state, while out searching for sasquatch (bigfoot) in a National Forest.

Coincidentally I recently got a message on a social media feed about this very rescue team, who just after the incident you reference, had a chunk of their equipment stolen.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-...ource=facebook

If you shop at Aldi, please be careful before just sticking your hand in the refrigerator. There might be a hungry coyote in there.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/14/us-new...g-video-shows/

I thought Coyotes shopped with Acme

The methods are set at the state level, but the US Supreme Court gets to rule on wherher a method is constitutionally prohibited for being "cruel and unusual", which is why the "medical cocktail" of sedative, knock-out drug and then potassium chloride to stop the heart, have been used almost universally since executions recommenced in 1976. Those drugs cause the convict to relax, fall asleep, and die, so not at all cruel or unusual.

I am not a lawyer, but I believe that offering the convict a choice of methods is part of the strategy to stop the convict claiming that execution is cruel and unusual by saying "well he chose the method of execution himself."

With the drugs becoming hard, and now apparently impossible to obtain, other methods are being considered, but given the brutality of the electric chair, which is neither quick nor painless, and may lead to death by burning, not electrocution, I don't see much liklihood of that ever being used again. I think one state (Arizona?) added firing squad as an alternative (it has always been an option in Utah, famously chosen by Gary Gilmore, who was the first execution when it was reintroduced in 1976), but other new innovative methods are apparently being considered, such as nitrogen asphyxiation, which I think has already been used at least once.

How about being made to listen to Bohemian Raspberry on a loop? Or similar.