The Daily Dose/March 4, 2024
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
OH HELL, LET’S DO IT LATER: Last week Idaho tried to execute Thomas Creech, who had spent over 40 years on death row after killing a fellow inmate. At the time, Creech was serving multiple life sentences for murdering others.
Fly In The Ointment: Creech was wheeled into the death chamber for his 10:00 am lethal injection and the appropriate IV needles were inserted. Death chamber personnel, however, were unable to find a suitable vein anywhere, either because there wasn’t a vein where they were expecting one, or the available one was unsatisfactory. After an hour of futility, the execution was called off and Creech’s death warrant expired at midnight.
Get Your Official Daily Dose/Gaylon For Congress Policy Right Here: We are against the death penalty because America has executed innocent people. To believe otherwise is folly, and anyone who tries to tell you differently is either 1) lying to you, 2) lying to themselves, or, as likely as not both.
Oh Yeah: Now, guilt isn’t an issue here. No one, much less Creech, is heralding his innocence. Still though, everyone involved is entitled to better than a botched execution.
Dry, Technical Matter: Exactly what is going to happen to Creech isn’t clear. We’re not lawyers here, thank god, nor have we ever played one on TV, but it seems to us that trying to execute someone a second time after the state failed in the first attempt, constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
Also, Idaho hasn’t commented on who made up the death chamber team, so it isn’t known of the problem was with Creech himself or if the those trying to find a vein were incompetent.
FunFact: Execution by firing squad is also a thing in Idaho, though the state doesn’t have a facility for carrying it out
The Bottom Line: The death penalty is a fiasco in an America loaded with them. We deserve better than a country that executes innocent people and a country that can’t even carry out an execution. The death penalty must be abolished.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow has some problems with the snowblower. Today’s Diary.
The problem is we’re not entirely sure what the choke does…
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On This Date
Extra, extra, read all about it.
In 1957 – The S&P 500 stock index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90. The first S&P (for Standard and Poor’s) stock index was published in 1923, and today its listed companies account for about 80% of the market capitalization of US public companies. The S&P 500 closed at 5,137.08 this past Friday, up 40.81, an all-time high.
In 1968 – Joe Frazier defeats Buster Mathis for the vacant world heavyweight boxing title at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Frazier won on an 11th-round TKO and he would later win the WBC and WBA titles, belts he would hold until losing to George Foreman in 1973. In 1964, Mathis had defeated Frazier for a spot on the Olympic team, but Mathis injured his hand. He was replaced by Frazier, who won the gold medal.
In 2017 – Ed Sheeran is at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 for the first of twelve non-consecutive weeks with Shape of You. The song went to #1 in 34 other countries – including Slovakia, Norway, and Great Britain – peaked at #42 on Billbord’s soul chart, and was Billboard’s #1 song of the year, its 3rd-biggest of the decade, and its 10th-biggest ever in a 2021 survey. It was the first of two #1s for Sheeran.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
One who takes for granted the basest motives in one’s fellow men and in oneself…has never gone wrong, not in our time – and it is in our time that one must live, must prosper or perish.
Ernst Weiss
Georg Letham Physician and Murderer
Answer To The Last Trivia Question
Knowledge is power.
The NHL record for most 60-goal seasons in a career is five, done twice, by Mike Bossy and Wayne Gretzky.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
When did Joe Frazier last fight for the world heavyweight boxing title? – Answer next time!
