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States Consider Firing Squad as Alternative to Lethal Injection
Wall Street Journal ^ | Jan 28, 2014 | Jacob Gershman

Posted on 01/28/2014 12:56:48 PM PST by Second Amendment First

As death penalty states struggle to obtain drugs suitable for lethal injections, more old-fashioned methods of executing prisoners are getting another look.

Lawmakers in Missouri and Wyoming have introduced measures this month that would give their states an option to use firing squads — instead of lethal drugs — to carry out executions. Another bill proposed by a Virginia lawmaker would authorize death by electrocution if lethal injection isn’t possible.

The measures have surfaced as a number of pharmaceutical firms have barred corrections departments from buying drugs that could be used in executions, forcing states to scramble for other suppliers and to experiment with alternative drugs.

The botched, 26-minute execution of an Ohio inmate earlier this month — using a cocktail of chemicals never before used in a U.S. execution — underscored the problem.

“This isn’t an attempt to time-warp back into the 1850s or the wild, wild West or anything like that,” Missouri state Rep. Rick Brattin, who sponsored the fire squad legislation, told the Associated Press, which reported on the bills. “It’s just that I foresee a problem, and I’m trying to come up with a solution that will be the most humane yet most economical for our state.”

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To: dfwgator
The Saddam Hanging video was even funnier when they used the Benny Hill Theme as the background music.

Somebody made a looped animated GIF showing Saddam falling through the trap door, then rising back up, getting hung over and over. Ah, yes, here it is ... Bungee Saddam:


61 posted on 01/28/2014 1:41:31 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: South40
offer the surviving family members the option of pulling the trigger

That was my first thought, as well. Make it an option, only one family member in the squad of five, do them all on Fridays at 9:00-10:00 PM, televise it, and have it sponsored by Remington, or somebody.

62 posted on 01/28/2014 1:42:50 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Second Amendment First

Sign me up.


63 posted on 01/28/2014 1:42:58 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a pedophile and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: Second Amendment First
Use "green" bullets.

That will make the enviros happy.

64 posted on 01/28/2014 1:44:27 PM PST by Gritty (Leftie Wingers confuse stonewalling for exoneration. - Dr.John)
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To: Second Amendment First

Still a no-go. The only method of execution allowed to non-Jews is “the sword” (beheading)—although hanging also fulfills the requirements.


65 posted on 01/28/2014 1:46:54 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: chiefqc

I am for the option to self terminate while on death row.

Put your head up against this pain of glass, now push the button. The shotgun blast takes the head clean off.

Automated water spray washes down the cell afterwards.


66 posted on 01/28/2014 1:48:24 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("The GOP fights its own base with far more vigor than it employs in fighting the Dims.")
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To: Second Amendment First

Just give the perp an ipod with a bunch of old Obama speeches (like he gave the Queen) and that should cause death in about 30 min. Though might be considered cruel and unusual...


67 posted on 01/28/2014 1:50:36 PM PST by tips up (Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.)
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To: JoeProBono

Holy crap Joe that fellow’s got some biiiig muzzles pointed at hisself!


68 posted on 01/28/2014 1:53:34 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Second Amendment First

POP POP two behind the ear, then again with the price of 22’s there may be cheaper way’s.


69 posted on 01/28/2014 1:54:17 PM PST by Dusty Road
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To: Second Amendment First

Why doesn’t a state pass a law stating that any drug company that refuses to sell a death penalty drug to the state government is barred from selling any drugs in the state?


70 posted on 01/28/2014 1:55:37 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: JoeProBono

Three rifles pointed as his chest, and one at his groin....


71 posted on 01/28/2014 1:57:47 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: thorvaldr

“Will the libs count that as “gun violence”?”

Yup. The read off the Boston Bomber’s name as a victim of gun violence after they were killed in firefights with police.


72 posted on 01/28/2014 2:01:33 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: pfflier
And I'm sure you know all about why people do what they do but I wonder if you know that but for the grace and mercy of God go you and I. Many if not most of the time these were themselves victims in their early life. These should be reasons to pause, but are not the most dispositive, definitive reasons to cease unjust capital punishment.

- You think the death penalty serves justice because it's an "eye for an eye." Fair enough except for one problem: Somebody has already paid "an eye for an eye" for those criminals and their heinous acts, so unjust double jeopardy is in play here.
- What about the victims and their family? Countless personal and professional examples testify to the fact that there is only one way victims of savagery can recover from the hurt and angst of victimization: forgiveness. Revenge feels good for awhile but does not relieve the pain.
- What about society? You lock up dangerous criminals to protect society.
- What about the cost? Oh, OK well I guess there is such thing as killing for convenience, but let's take another tack which hits directly at our medieval penal system: prisoners should be productive and at least pay their way in prison.

73 posted on 01/28/2014 2:02:04 PM PST by PapaNew
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To: Second Amendment First

The constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
It does not guarantee a painless execution.


74 posted on 01/28/2014 2:03:01 PM PST by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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75 posted on 01/28/2014 2:05:49 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: chiefqc

The inmate can choose the animal that eats them. I’d pick a Liger.


76 posted on 01/28/2014 2:06:04 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: PapaNew

What a load of tripe.


77 posted on 01/28/2014 2:07:21 PM PST by pfflier
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To: xone

Your definition of a lib is someone you disagree with? Sadness. That’s how the Leftists argue - labeling, calling names, anything off the substantive point because what they stand for fails every time in the forum of ideas.


78 posted on 01/28/2014 2:09:16 PM PST by PapaNew
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To: Second Amendment First

Put a .32acp laded with Glasers against the back of his head and pull the trigger.

You can even have an open coffin funeral


79 posted on 01/28/2014 2:15:53 PM PST by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: Argus

I prefer the hanging tree, but the firing squad works for me.


80 posted on 01/28/2014 2:17:58 PM PST by elkfersupper
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