Normally I'm Against the Death Penalty

But not when it results in hilarity! That Christopher Scott Emmett, what joker! (Except when he's beating his coworker to death with a brass lamp so he can take his money and buy crack, of course.) "Tell my family and friends I love them; tell the governor he just lost my vote," Emmett said in the chamber before he died. "Y'all hurry this along. I'm dying to get out of here."

Best Quote Ever

Let me just sum up what the article is about: Nebraska's Supreme Court held that the electric chair was cruel and unusual (i.e. an unconstitutional and thus illegal form of capital punishment). Nebraska law only provides for a person to be sentenced to death by electrocution which it can't do now because of the Supreme Court holding. So the big question is what to do with all the inmates sentenced to death? Right now there's no law on the books in Nebraska allowing for an alternate form of execution and even if there were, some of the inmates were specifically sentenced to "death by electrocution". And now the best quote ever:

"If someone tells you with confidence that they know how this will come out, you should get an ounce of what they're smoking," said Bob Schopp, a law professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who specializes in criminal law and capital punishment.

Outcome: Nebraska kills them with lethal injection. Now who wants a lid for $450?

And apparently Bush is totally down with sex tourism:

Bizzaro World of Politics and Law

The Supreme Court just overruled Bush. They said Bush can't tell Texas that the state is prohibited from executing foreigners when refusing contact between the condemned and their native consulate. Yes, you read correct: Bush was trying to stay an execution.

And on a lighter note: dood writes check on TP for waterbill

And yes, it's legal. (UPDATE: Educate yourself on the law)