Comments on: From The Brazen Bull to Lethal Injection: The Punishment Fits the Times http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/16/from-the-brazen-bull-to-lethal-injection-the-punishment-fits-the-times/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:16:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Christopher Flournoy http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/16/from-the-brazen-bull-to-lethal-injection-the-punishment-fits-the-times/#comment-94040 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:14:25 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/16/from-the-brazen-bull-to-lethal-injection-the-punishment-fits-the-times/#comment-94040 As always Professor Turley, a great article… One point of clarification though, Edison did not win both battles. While alternating current was adopted as the standard for execution, it also was adopted as the worldwide standard for electrical power transmission beating out Edison’s direct current standard which was not easily scalable and suffered high line losses in transmission from the generator to the end user.

In this case, Westinghouse had the last laugh as Edison’s promotion of AC for executions only served to make Westinghouse’s AC system more well known proving that there is no such thing as bad publicity.

]]> By: Supreme Court Upholds Lethal Injection « JONATHAN TURLEY http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/16/from-the-brazen-bull-to-lethal-injection-the-punishment-fits-the-times/#comment-11397 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:50:21 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/16/from-the-brazen-bull-to-lethal-injection-the-punishment-fits-the-times/#comment-11397 [...] This was an expected ruling, as discussed in this column. [...]

]]> By: The End of Electrocution in the United States?: Nebraska Supreme Court Bans Use of Electric Chair as a Method of Execution « JONATHAN TURLEY http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/16/from-the-brazen-bull-to-lethal-injection-the-punishment-fits-the-times/#comment-6440 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:20:39 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/16/from-the-brazen-bull-to-lethal-injection-the-punishment-fits-the-times/#comment-6440 [...] It was a 6-1 decision and a long overdue end to electrocution in the United States as a method of execution. For a column on this and other forms of execution, click here [...]

]]> By: Behind the Black Hood: Death Row Inmates Seek Identity of their Future Executioners « JONATHAN TURLEY http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/16/from-the-brazen-bull-to-lethal-injection-the-punishment-fits-the-times/#comment-5981 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:27:36 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/16/from-the-brazen-bull-to-lethal-injection-the-punishment-fits-the-times/#comment-5981 [...] Reginald Clemons, Richard Clay, Jeffrey Ferguson, Roderick Nunley and Michael Taylor argue that they have a right to know if their executioners are suitably trained and qualified. As noted in a recent column, mishaps have been common in executions through the years. Click here [...]

]]> By: scott http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/16/from-the-brazen-bull-to-lethal-injection-the-punishment-fits-the-times/#comment-5880 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:33:52 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/01/16/from-the-brazen-bull-to-lethal-injection-the-punishment-fits-the-times/#comment-5880 Your argument falls completely apart with the use of Frederick Leuchter in the electric chair section. He was discredited in the Florida trial and is not a reliable source for information. Of course, the two expert witnesses who were accredited in the FL trial are alive and available, but they wouldn’t have given you the dramatic imagery or supported your case either.

Bad research doesn’t prove anything. Perhaps the rest of the article is good, perhaps it isn’t, but I stopped reading at the electric chair section because I knew that you were saying white is blue.

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