Unlike Kentucky, Virginia does not allow for a second dose of sodium thiopental, which results in a deep, coma-like unconsciousness, even when a second round of the other drugs is required. Virginia also administers the three drugs more quickly than Kentucky.

Are Virginians sadists? Do they have “sexual gratification gained through causing pain or degradation to others?” Do they get “any enjoyment in being cruel?” Do they revel in “extreme cruelty?”

SURE AS HELL APPEARS SO!

Virginia executes man who challenged methods

JARRATT, Virginia (AP) — A killer who argued that Virginia’s procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional was executed Thursday after a federal appeals court upheld the primary method of capital punishment in the country’s second-busiest death chamber.

Christopher Scott Emmett, 36, was pronounced dead at 9:07 p.m. ET. He was convicted of beating a co-worker to death with a brass lamp in 2001 so he could steal the man’s money to buy crack cocaine.

Emmett’s appeal was the first to require a federal appeals court to interpret a U.S. Supreme Court decision in April that upheld Kentucky’s three-drug method of lethal injection and apply it to another state’s procedures.

Gov. Tim Kaine declined to intervene with the sentence being carried out.

It’s because of thinking like this that waterboarding is allowed to happen. Sick, twisted fucks.