By all accounts of recorded memory, bringing back the electric chair seems diminishing the thinking of the Tennessee jurisprudence. Would Elvis Presley’s own “Rhapsody in Blue “buy it? After al, the provincial La Brea tar pit authorities sought to outlaw a high school teacher’s lesson plans on Evolution unto his protégés, students and colleagues in a narrow minded“crime”
II
It took a Clarence Darrow to clear the hot air, from the Biblical spout of six time Presidential contender William Jennings Bryan. Spencer Tracy and Frederic March had a go at it.
”Inherit the wind”.
III
What’s despicable about the State’s ratiocination is the warden’sresponse toward execution of a criminal in Tennessee.
III
If the state simply wants to eliminate an untested immoral human being gone wrong, why ignore the killer’s past and become the killer yourself?
Surely there must be more humane apps to punish a miscreant in our cyber space of outlaws and the information highway that the judicial engine “gas” runs on.
IV
Is the electric chair itself a deterrent t to crime of passion? What good is it?
Simply put the arrogance and retreat to Jimmy Cagney “Bogy” Edward G.
Robinson’s (“Little Caesar”) state of mind seems to be so oppressive, that it
boggle the mind, doesn’t it?
A deterrent? Who’s kidding who?
Our prisons have put 2 million “lynched” prisoners behind bars.
If Tennessee wants to rethink the boggled Oklahoma
execution by injection, let them rethink
their archaic yielding to the electric chair.
V
Where is Clarence Darrow when we need him?
My 23, 2014 The City that never sleeps
