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DetlefK

(16,670 posts)
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 06:04 PM Sep 2019

Don't worry: Joe Biden won't get the electric chair.

After all...

Carter Page didn't get the electric chair for years upon years of contacts with the FSB.

George Papadopolous didn't get the electric chair for years upon years of contacts with the russian secret agent Joseph Mifsud, who even introduced him to his italian wife who speaks with a russian accent.

Donald Trump Jr. didn't get the electric chair for meeting Natalya Veselnitskaya, secret agent of the russian Ministry of the Interior. Or for his contacts to the "hostile non-state intelligence service" Wikileaks.

Rudy Giuliani didn't get the electric chair for meeting with Julian Assange, head of the "hostile non-state intelligence service" Wikileaks.

Paul Manafort didn't get the electric chair for organizing anti-US protests in Ukraine.

Mike Flynn didn't get the electric chair for trying to kidnap Fetullah Gulen and trying to sell him to Turkey, or for mishandling secret information while he was in the army, or for having an inappropriate relationship with a young russian woman while he was in the army, or for organizing meetings with foreign governments on behalf of the US-government behind the back of the Obama-administration.

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Don't worry: Joe Biden won't get the electric chair. (Original Post) DetlefK Sep 2019 OP
Is there even an electric chair to get? Newest Reality Sep 2019 #1
Are firing squads still a thing? dewsgirl Sep 2019 #3
I don't think so. Newest Reality Sep 2019 #4
I remember being shocked they still existed in my lifetime, dewsgirl Sep 2019 #7
Lethal Injection Newest Reality Sep 2019 #6
Joe Biden didn't do anything wrong so ecstatic Sep 2019 #2
The USA actually has a President threatening to lock up all of his political opponents... world wide wally Sep 2019 #5

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Is there even an electric chair to get?
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 06:07 PM
Sep 2019

I don't know. Thought it was outmoded/obsolete.

I mean, wouldn't someone convicted of high treason get lethal injection these days, or is it a firing squad for that?

I am curious because there is someone I know of who might qualify.

dewsgirl

(14,965 posts)
7. I remember being shocked they still existed in my lifetime,
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 10:03 PM
Sep 2019

I was born in 76. It was a serious question.
I just googled it, looks like there was one in UT in 2010.😲

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
6. Lethal Injection
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 06:53 PM
Sep 2019

Lethal Injection is the primary method, however, there are states that use other means as options. Three of them include a firing squad.

So, theoretically, hanging, lethal gas, electric chair and firing squad secondary methods in some states if lethal injection cannot be performed.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/methods-of-execution

world wide wally

(21,836 posts)
5. The USA actually has a President threatening to lock up all of his political opponents...
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 06:51 PM
Sep 2019

Hillary, Obama, Biden and more to come I'm quite sure.
Are you getting the picture yet magats?
Not very pretty if you remember your elementary school education when America was a free country.
Think about it.

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