{"id":2190,"date":"2011-06-06T21:54:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T03:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2011-06-06T21:54:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T03:54:04","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-june-6-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For June 6, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s\u00a0Obfuscating\u00a0Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examples of bureaucrating distancing of responsibility during modern executions: \u00a0Oklahoma uses three lethal injectioners, each of whom injects one of the drugs; \u00a0Georgia, Missouri and Utah use the old standby of the blank bullet placebo: three lethal injectioners, only one of whom has the lethal drugs in the drip bags on his IV stand; \u00a0and Georgia has three keys that activate the switch to the electric chair. \u00a0Tennessee&#8217;s electric chair, activated by one of two men turning keys simultaneously in a blue enamel box labeled Electric Chair Control, has computer software that randomly decides which of the two keys starts the voltage cycle. \u00a0It&#8217;s a nice sci-fi touch, meant to hide the executioner&#8217;s identity from himself, but every sci-fi reader sees through the ruse: computers, by definition, cannot create randomness. \u00a0Therefore, the author of the software is the executioner. \u00a0Tennessee&#8217;s answer for that is simple: the author of the software doesn&#8217;t know what he wrote it for. \u00a0New Jersey&#8217;s death penalty statute has a measure, written by a Metuchen dentist who served as an assemblyman, that mandates that &#8220;the procedures and equipment [of a lethal injection] shall be designed to ensure that the identity of the person actually inflicting the lethal substance is unknown even to the person himself.&#8221; In Texas, he is no longer even called the executioner; he is the &#8220;designee of the Director&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060931035\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theasylumeclecti&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0060931035\">The Last Face You&#8217;ll Ever See: The Culture of Death Row<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s\u00a0Obfuscating\u00a0Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Examples of bureaucrating distancing of responsibility during modern executions: \u00a0Oklahoma uses three lethal injectioners, each of whom injects one of the drugs; \u00a0Georgia, Missouri and Utah use the old standby of the blank bullet placebo: three lethal injectioners, only one of whom has the lethal drugs in the drip bags on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}