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[–] 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)

No. Additionally, Tennessee does not have firing squad as a listed method of execution.

TCA § 40-23-114

(b) Any person who commits an offense prior to January 1, 1999, for which the person is sentenced to the punishment of death may elect to be executed by electrocution by signing a written waiver waiving the right to be executed by lethal injection.

That's her only option, outside of the savings clause in (d) which permits any other method if all other methods listed are unconstitutional.

Also for your other question, yes. Things like espionage, high treason, aid and comfort to the enemy, large scale drug trafficking, etc... But usually if it isn't because you murder someone, it has to be that you've done something really bad. Like if you gave tactical blueprints of thermonuclear devices employed by the United States to North Korea and the blueprints for the vehicle to deliver those devices, yeah, that's getting up there.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (6 children)

    Even then, execution for treason is really only a wartime thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    When was the last time the US hasn't been at war?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Congress has to declare it. So... World War II.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    And the Rosenbergs were executed in the 50's so... Guess you don't have to be at war to be executed for espionage.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Legally speaking the last war the US declared was WWII. Everything else has been heavily armed police actions. Congress declares war but the President is head of the military and does what he wants with the money Congress provides. Which seams like a disctintion without a difference except when it comes to "wartime" provisions in laws, services, and insurance.

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