I found this article tonight and found it interesting. Thought I'd share it with you all.

Monica Danielle

Politics: Alabama may swap electric chair for lethal injection


MONTGOMERY, Ala. (April 11, 2002 8:48 p.m. EDT) - The Alabama Legislature approved a bill Thursday that would change the primary method of execution in Alabama from the electric chair to lethal injection.

If the measure is signed by Gov. Don Siegelman, Nebraska will be the only state in the country that uses the electric chair as the primary method of execution.

The legislation calls for lethal injection to be used in any executions following July 1, unless the inmate asks to die in the electric chair.

Deputy press secretary Rip Andrews said the governor wants to study the bill, but has said he favors the change.

Siegelman and state Attorney General Bill Pryor had urged the Legislature to change the method of execution because of concern the U.S. Supreme Court could declare the electric chair to be cruel and unusual punishment.

"This legislation will remove one of the many filings that clog the courts to delay justice," Pryor said.

The lethal injection bill passed the state Senate earlier in the session and was approved by the House on a 86-0 vote Thursday. The Senate later Thursday concurred with a technical amendment added in the House, giving the bill final passage.

"Lethal injection is a more humane and modern method of execution," said the bill's House sponsor, Rep. Marcel Black.

The speaker pro tem of the House, Rep. Demetrius Newton, an opponent of capital punishment, said he abstained on the lethal injection bill.

"If you have lethal injection, at least it is a more humane way to do it," Newton said.

Lethal Injection vs Electric Chair...what's the difference. Murder is murder no matter the method..legal or otherwise

Joy we know that and about 95% of the people know that. It is a way of being humane about killing someone.
To Be crispy fried? or to hopefully be put to sleep? (if it works correctly) The government is trying to appease Amnesty International by making death appear painless.

I believe it is a matter of time when this humanity in death facade will crumble and the fence setters will get over on our side and end this madness of death sentences. Now we just have to get the hardlined Christians to agree. Hate to tell it like this but a Christian will put you to death quicker than anyone else.

The money argument is won. It cost less to sentence a person to life than to sentence them to death row.

This is what I don't understand:

When a person is found guilty of capitol murder and is in the sentencing phase, why can't the jury consider life with or without parole along with the death penalty? Why aren't they given 3 options instead of one? The jury only makes a reccomendation of the death penalty but the judge ultimately does the sentencing. Or just abolish the death penalty all together.

Personally, I am against the death penalty and I think if a jury was given options, a lot less people would be put on death row.

It's just a thought.
Monica Danielle