Tennessee inmate 遂行する／発効させるd in 電気椅子 for 殺人，大当りs
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee 遂行する／発効させるd its third inmate in the 電気椅子 since November, 殺人，大当り a man Thursday who 持続するd that he didn't を刺す a mother and her 15-year-old daughter to death in 1986.
明言する／公表する 公式の／役人s pronounced 56-year-old Stephen West dead at 7:27 p.m. at Riverbend 最大限 安全 会・原則 in Nashville.
For his final words, West said, "In the beginning, God created man." Then he started to cry and continued, "And Jesus wept. That is all."
This week, West decided he preferred to die in the 電気椅子 after 以前 発言する／表明するing no preference, which would have defaulted him to lethal 注射. His 弁護士／代理人／検事 in a 法廷，裁判所 とじ込み／提出するing wrote that the 電気椅子 is "also 憲法違反の, yet still いっそう少なく painful" compared with the 明言する／公表する's preference of a three-麻薬 lethal 注射.
弁護士／代理人／検事s for inmates David Miller and Edmund Zagorski made the same arguments before they chose to die by the 電気椅子 in 2018. Both unsuccessfully argued to 法廷，裁判所s that Tennessee's 手続き, which uses the 麻薬 midazolam, results in a 長引かせるd and torturous death.
Tennessee has put two inmates to death by lethal 注射 since August 2018.
This 調書をとる／予約するing photo 解放（する）d by the Tennessee Department of 是正s shows Stephen West. West has made a last minute request to be put to death in the 電気椅子 instead of dying by lethal 注射. The 明言する／公表する Department of 是正 on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019 確認するd West made the request ahead of his Thursday 死刑執行. He 以前 選ぶd against selecting a preference, which would have resulted in lethal 注射. (Tennessee Department of 是正s 経由で AP)
In Tennessee, 非難するd inmates whose 罪，犯罪s occurred before 1999 can 選ぶ for the 電気椅子.
West's 弁護士／代理人／検事 has argued that some "feasible and readily 器具／実施するd 代案／選択肢 methods of 死刑執行 存在する that 意味ありげに 減ずる the 相当な 危険 of 厳しい 苦痛 and 苦しむing" compared with the 明言する／公表する's three-麻薬 議定書 or electrocution: a 選び出す／独身 弾丸 to the 支援する of the 長，率いる, a 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing squad, a "安楽死 oral cocktail" or one-麻薬 pentobarbital, によれば a February 法廷，裁判所 とじ込み／提出するing.
West was one of four （刑務所の）死刑囚棟 inmates who 告訴するd last year, asking a 連邦の 法廷，裁判所's 許可 to use a 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing squad as an 死刑執行 method. 現在／一般に, just three 明言する／公表するs - Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah - continue to 許す the use of 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing squads. How ever, the last time that method was used was in 2010.
The last 明言する／公表する other than Tennessee to carry out an 死刑執行 by electrocution was Virginia in 2013, によれば Death 刑罰，罰則 （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） 中心 data.
West was 設立する 有罪の of the kidnapping and stabbing deaths of 51-year-old Wanda Romines and her 15-year-old daughter, Sheila Romines. He also was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of the 十代の少年少女's 強姦.
In a 温和／情状酌量 嘆願 to Gov. 法案 物陰／風下, 弁護士／代理人／検事s for West wrote that his then-17-year-old 共犯者 Ronnie ツバメ 現実に killed both Union 郡 犠牲者s. West was 23 at the time. Their 事例／患者s were separated, and while West was 宣告，判決d to death, ツバメ pleaded 有罪の as a juvenile and received a life 宣告，判決 with the 可能性 of 仮釈放（する） in 2030.
In a 法廷，裁判所 とじ込み／提出するing, the 明言する／公表する said West 残酷に stabbed the 犠牲者s to death. An 専門家 at West's 裁判，公判 結論するd two people were 伴う／関わるd in stabbing the teen.
Eddie Campbell, whose now-死んだ uncle was the father and husband of the 犠牲者s, 問題／発行するd a wide-範囲ing 声明 after Thursday's 死刑執行. He said he has forgiveness in his heart for West and ツバメ but doesn't think 司法（官） should be ignored.
関わりなく the arguments about who killed the women, Tennessee is one of 27 明言する／公表するs that 許す 死刑執行s of "非，不，無-triggermen" 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of 関与 in a 重罪 resulting in a 犠牲者's death, even if they didn't kill anyone themselves, によれば the American Civil Liberties Union.
West's 温和／情状酌量 とじ込み／提出するing says the 陪審／陪審員団 never heard a 刑務所，拘置所 記録，記録的な／記録するing from ツバメ 説 he carried out the 殺人，大当りs, not West. But a 1989 明言する／公表する 最高裁判所 opinion 拒絶するd the 記録，記録的な／記録するing as uncorroborated hearsay that wouldn't have exonerated West.
West's 弁護士／代理人／検事 選ぶd against playing the tape at 宣告，判決ing because the 裁判官 would have 許すd other recordings in which ツバメ 罪を負わせるd West, 法廷，裁判所 記録，記録的な／記録するs show.
The 知事 否定するd West's 温和／情状酌量 使用／適用, which also said West had been taking powerful 医薬 in 刑務所，拘置所 to 扱う／治療する m ental illness.
In a 声明, West's 弁護士／代理人／検事s said they were 深く，強烈に disappointed the 明言する／公表する 遂行する／発効させるd "a man whom the 明言する／公表する has 診断するd with 厳しい mental illness; a man of 深い 約束 who has made a 肯定的な 衝撃 on those around him for １０年間s; and a man who by 圧倒的な 証拠 did not commit these 殺人s but has にもかかわらず taken personal 責任／義務 for his 関与 in these 罪，犯罪s."
Ralph Hutchison lights candles at a 徹夜, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, in Knoxville, Tenn., for （刑務所の）死刑囚棟 inmate Stephen Michael West. Tennessee 遂行する／発効させるd West, who 持続するd that he didn't を刺す a mother and her 15-year-old daughter to death in 1986. The 徹夜 was 組織するd by Tenness eans for 代案／選択肢s to the Death 刑罰，罰則. (Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel 経由で AP)
Ralph Hutchison lights candles at a 徹夜, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, in Knoxville, Tenn., for （刑務所の）死刑囚棟 inmate Stephen Michael West. Tennessee 遂行する／発効させるd West, who 持続するd that he didn't を刺す a mother and her 15-year-old daughter to death in 1986. The 徹夜 was 組織するd by Tennesseans for 代案／選択肢s to the Death 刑罰，罰則. (Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel 経由で AP)
People 持つ／拘留する candles at a 徹夜, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, in Knoxville, Tenn., for （刑務所の）死刑囚棟 inmate Stephen Michael West. Tennessee 遂行する／発効させるd West, who 持続するd that he didn't を刺す a mother and her 15-year-old daughter to death in 1986. The 徹夜 was 組織するd by Tennesseans for 代案／選択肢s to the Death 刑罰，罰則. (Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel 経由で AP)
Ed Patrick 屈服するs his 長，率いる during a candlelight 徹夜, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, in Knoxville, Tenn., for （刑務所の）死刑囚棟 inmate Stephen Michael West. Tennessee 遂行する／発効させるd West, who 持続するd that he didn't を刺す a mother and her 15-year-old daughter to death in 1986. The 徹夜 was 組織するd by Tennesseans for 代案／選択肢s to the Death 刑罰，罰則. (Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel 経由で AP)
People gather for a candlelight 徹夜, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, in Knoxville, Tenn., for （刑務所の）死刑囚棟 inmate Stephen Michael West. Tennessee 遂行する／発効させるd West, who 持続するd that he didn't を刺す a mother and her 15-year-old daughter to death in 1986. The 徹夜 was 組織するd by Tennesseans for 代案／選択肢s to the Death 刑罰，罰則. (Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel 経由で AP)
