Ha ha it says charged with battery that is something I would say Al.

I blame the chicken marsala.

Fry him.

This is progress. He's moved from killing to beating. At this rate he could actually stop harming others by the end of the year!

He told police she was drunk and hurt herself to get back at him for trying to evict her from the house they share.

It could have happened that way; she could have inflicted the injuries upon herself. I mean, we all saw it happen with Jim Carrey in Liar Liar.

I mean, we all saw it happen with Jim Carrey in Liar Liar.

What the hell are you doing?

I'm kicking my ass! Do you mind?

If Leyritz were an animal he would have been euthanized by now.

I thought he was in jail.

He told police she was drunk and hurt herself to get back at him for trying to evict her from the house they share.

The article also contained information that may undermine the wife's credibility:

Leyritz's ex-wife, Karrie, gave conflicting reports of what happened, according to a police officer who responded to a domestic disturbance at the house. She first told police they were arguing over child support when he struck her twice in the face and pushed her to the ground for writing a check without his permission. She later said her ex-husband dragged her out of bed and pushed her against the wall.

The second version could be true, but I would think they'd need pretty strong corroborating evidence to get a conviction since she damaged her credibility by giving such conflicting accounts of the underlying circumstances.

In DV cases, the battered spouse almost always has multiple versions of what happened. If this case goes near a jury- the jurors tend to understand this (with some gentle DA prompting) and generally focus on the version that is most believable if there's some physical evidence of violence.

Either way- sorry to see this happen. I hope Leyritz can get his #### straight because he is on a bad road right now.

Reading the headline, I get this mental image of Leyritz, a car battery and jumper cables. Do they use the electric chair in Florida?

Do they use the electric chair in Florida?

You mean Old Sparky?

Electrocution was the sole means of execution in Florida from 1924 until 2000, when the Florida legislature under pressure from the U.S. Supreme Court replaced it with lethal injection. Florida death row inmates now may be executed in the electric chair only if they choose it. It was located in Florida State Prison near the north Florida town of Starke. It was notorious for malfunctioning in its final years, namely in the cases of Jesse Tafero (executed May 4, 1990), Pedro Medina (executed March 25, 1997), and Allen Lee Davis (executed July 8, 1999). Reportedly flames shot out of the convicts' heads during the execution of Tafero and Medina, raising the question whether use of the electric chair was cruel and unusual punishment. After the Medina execution, then 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."

The malfunctions probably were due to practices of the prison staff and not because of the electric chair itself. The wooden chair itself had been replaced in early 1999 due to concerns over its stability should heavier inmates be executed in it. The electrical components remained the same for the system.

There was evidence that the first two malfunctions in the Tafero and Medina executions occurred because of how sponges were used in the headpiece containing an electrode. To assure proper contact between the inmate's head and the electrode, a saline-soaked sponge stuffed between the two was necessary. In the Tafero incident, a natural sponge was replaced with a synthetic sponge that caught fire during the execution. For Medina, prison officials apparently did not properly soak the sponge in saline, and it caught fire also. Davis' execution photographs clearly showed that his nose had been severely compressed by a badly fitted headstrap.

Why did the Energizer bunny go to jail?

He was charged with battery.

I guess I just don't think things through well. Why not just a bullet(s) to the head or firing squad? Cheap, quick, efficient. Whatever you think of the death penalty, the way we carry it out seems to be clearly designed to be relatively slow, drawn out and painful. Which, fine, if that's what we want but, in that case, we could do so much more inventively.

and of course, the age-old question: do they use a sterile needle for the lethal injection?

and, if so.... WHY?

and of course, the age-old question: do they use a sterile needle for the lethal injection?

No. They use a steroids needle.