Thou shall not kill..
Back when the railroads were the best way to travel, there was one conductor that was more than just angry at the everyday passenger. He took to pushing one passenger off the last car on each trip, just to see them bounce and die.
But don’t fear, they finally caught the conductor and took him to trial. After many months in the court system a jury found him GUILTY of murder. The judge had no choice but to sentence him to death in the electric chair.
When it came time to set him in the chair, he was still smug and laughing. They strapped him in, closed the door, some said a prayer, and an unknown man through the switch. Lights dimmed, some saw smoke, and others turned away. After fifteen seconds, the switch went to off. The doctor entered the booth, “My God, he’s still alive, and laughing” yelled the doctor! What went wrong?
They returned him to his cell. His lawyer petitioned the court to release his client as they failed the execution. The court, say no way, we will do it again. A month later, same story, into the booth, strapped down, pulled the switch, lights dim, smoke, thirty seconds later, the same results, “He lives, and laughs!!!”
His lawyer fights the court again; the court again says he shall die for his murders. Third time in the booth, third throw of the switch, forty five seconds of electricity flows in the booth. My God, he lived through it again.
His attorney attacks the court again, saying enough is enough; you have to set him free, you cannot kill him. The judge, now almost ready to agree, asks “And why can’t he be killed as a punishment for murder?” The attorney answers “Your honor, you cannot electrocute him; we all know he’s a bad conductor.”
Jerry D.