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Electrocution: Cruel and Unusual? Currently, Nebraska is the only state that utilizes the electric chair as their sole means of execution. However, Nate Jenkins from the Associated Press writes today that the Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled electrocution to be cruel and unusual. The high court made this decision in the case of Raymond Mata Jr., sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of three-year-old Adam Gomez. The child's body parts were found in Mata?s freezer and dog's bowl. In the majority opinion Judge William Connolly opined that prisoners sometimes ?retain enough brain functioning to consciously suffer the torture high voltage electric current inflicts on a human body.? In his dissent, the Chief Justice pointed out that the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).