The Daily Dose/April 27, 2026
By Gaylon Kent – America’s Funniest Guy™
Leading Off
Notes from around the human experience.
READY…AIM…FIRE: Last week, the federal government announced it had instructed the Justice Department to look into other methods of execution, as carrying out lethal injections becomes more and more difficult.
The federal execution protocol should include other manners of execution.
Most news reports focused on the return of firing squads, but the report directs the Department to consider electrocution and the gas chamber, too. It is part of their plan to increase the number of executions, both by making it easier to carry out executions and by seeking the death penalty in more federal cases.
Oh Yeah: Currently, five states – Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah – allow for firing squad executions. The last one occured in South Carolina in March of last year, and our research did not show any federal government firing squad executions at any time in US history.
Dry, Technical Matter: There is no need to start stockpiling ammunition now, as there are now only three people on federal death row. In December 2024, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of the 37 other condemned inmates to life in prison.
Get Your Official Daily Dose Policy Right Here: This country has executed innocent people. To deny that in either a circumstantial or intrinsic context is folly. For that reason, the death penalty must be abolished. Other reasons for the death penalty, like public safety and deterrence, do not pass muster, either. The only thing the death penalty is good for is vengeance.
The Bottom Line: Mankind has been putting people to death as punishment for crimes since time immemorial. You would think that our species would’ve moved away from it as we’ve evolved over the centuries – we used to eat our prisoners of war, too – but we haven’t. We deserve better than this, frankly. The death penalty in the US should’ve been done away with long ago.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow again quizzes Robert about last night’s pizza. Today’s Diary.
Recall it tasted sweet, and under initial questioning, Roberto confessed to having put honey on it, tho he declined to disclose whether his Jamaican or Chinese heritage made him do it…
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On This Date
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In 2018 – North and South Korea sign the Panmunjom Declaration in the Peace Building, on the South Korean side of the Joint Security Area at the 39th Parellel. The two countries agreed to work to end the Korean War, which is still technically active, and to promote prosperity and reunification. The agreement is no longer in force, with North Korea suspending it in 2023 and South Korea doing so the following year.
In 1983 – Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros establishes a new major league record for most career strikeouts in a 4-2 win over the Montreal Expos. Ryan’s 8th-inning strikeout of Brad Mills was the 3,509th of his career, breaking the record established by Walter Johnson from 1907-27. Ryan retired in 1993 with 5,714 strikeouts, still the all-time mark. Pat Jarvis of the Atlanta Braves was Ryan’s first strikeout victim, on Sept 11, 1966.
In 1974 – MFSB & the Three Degrees are at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second and final consecutive week with TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia). It was the first of five chart singles for MFSB – a collection of Philadelphia session musicians – and remains their only Top 40 hit. It was the first of two Top 40 hits for the Three Degrees and was their only #1. The song also went to #1 in Canada and Spain, peaked at #22 in Great Britain, at #1 on Billboard’s soul chart, and was their 7th-biggest song of the year.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
She’d often observed that people generally lived up to whatever expectations they had of themselves.
Emily Brightwell
The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries
Answer To The Last Trivia Questions
Knowledge is power.
The conspirators behind the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln also planned on murdering Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. Johnson’s assigned killer decided to get drunk instead of carrying out his assigned task, though Seward barely survived his attack.
Today’s Stumper
Match wits with Gaylon. It’s not that hard.
Whose career strikeout record did Walter Johnson break? – Answer next time!
