Killer Whale To Face Old Sparky
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After a quiet evening in with Mrs. Sparks and her favourite film The Green Mile, I decided to do some research on the star of the story “Old Sparky” and surfed across American blogger Ronnie Ray Jenkins who reports breaking news on a highly publicized recent tragedy …....
Killer Whale To Face Old Sparky - In Florida a killer whale brutally attacked and murdered a SeaWorld Orlando employee. The state of Florida will prosecute the whale to the fullest extent of the law according to prosecutors. There is talk of "Old Sparky" being fired up to execute the whale for this brazen act.
"Of course we'll have to make some adjustments to the chair" commented Wilhem M. Snoddertugit "you know, like a big head thingy, but at least we won't have to wet a sponge to draw the current."
A state psychiatrist said the whale appeared to show all the symptoms of a "mammalian socio path." PETA is planning a candlelight vigil outside the Florida State Prison in Tallahassee.
Mr. Tillicum, the whale, was led away in huge fincuffs. It is believed the whale developed anger issues over his given name, To Lick Em. However, another killer whale claims Tillicum was sick and tired of doing the same tricks everyday for a few fish.
….... isn't it macabre how our species has a strange relationship with death and we can find humour from extreme suffering and the most tragic events. However, there is another side to this story, and that's the Sunshine State's love affair with the electric chair. Death by electrocution was the sole means of execution in Florida from 1924 until 2000. Now, because of legislation enforced by the U.S. Supreme Court, Florida lets its death row inmates have a choice. Be executed in the electric chair if they choose too, or by lethal injection. Ironically, the Florida Supreme Court probably would, if it still could, put the killer whale in the electric chair for its crime.
The horrific scene in the The Green Mile depicting the bodged execution of prisoner Eduard "Del" Delacroix with flames shooting out of his head were by no means fictional. Notorious malfunctions, probably due to practices of the prison staff and not because of the electric chair itself, were common place in Old Sparkys final years, causing excruciating pain from human combustion with profuse amounts of blood spurtting out of bodily orifices together with the stench of burning flesh. Not surprisingly vomit bags were issued to official witnesses. Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth commented, "People who wish to commit murder, they'd better not do it in the state of Florida because we may have a problem with the electric chair."
In an episode of the King of the Hill, Dale Gribble, is excited about being on the executioner list as a new employee of a local prison, he asks the prison warden where Old Sparky is. The warden explains that Old Sparky is no longer, it's been replaced by lethal injection. Dale then asks “well then, where is Old Squirty?”
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