Posted on 04/26/2019 11:34:04 AM PDT by archy
South Carolina Considers Using Firing Squad as Alternative Death Penalty Method
South Carolina lawmakers are considering legislation that would add firing squads to the state’s existing execution methods.
The House Criminal Laws subcommittee on Thursday approved a Senate proposal that also changes South Carolina’s default execution method to the electric chair.
Lawmakers acted after prison officials told them they don’t have the drugs needed for lethal injection and don’t know when they will be able to obtain them.
Don Zelenka is South Carolina’s deputy attorney general. He says 29 prisoners are currently on death row.
The bill has passed the Senate. If the House Judiciary Committee approves it, it could pass the House before the Legislature adjourns May 9.
South Carolina’s last execution was in May 2011.
How many people die of drug overdoses in the USA every year?
Hundreds ... thousands ... tens of thousands?
And the state government can't find any drugs to
that will do the job.
Who actually believes that?
Agreed. The French method is one of the fastest and most efficient forms of execution.
Nork Kim Jong-un finds their equivalent of a howitzer at close range to be quite effective.
Never mind. It looks like youtube deleted the video.
Michael Fumento is a military man. He is also a turncoat who does journalistic spitting on our President. And unlike the lib/commies he tries to suck up to, Michael Fumento actually did leave the U.S. for Mexico (a brother ransomed him out of a Colombian prison).
I’d prefer it were I executioner or executed
The Fentanyl in those lollipops are a diluted form. A hundred mics of Fentanyl is enough to put a person under though the half life is short. However consider the cops who’ve had to get emergency Narcan when busting a pusher because they’ve ingested many times that amount via powder. No it wasn’t carfentanyl. Carfentanyl may be 100 times more powerful than fentanyl but considering the tiny amounts of Fentanyl needed for analgesia and sedation drips it hardly matters. So 1 microgram of Carfent=100 mics of Fentanyl. Both are very tiny amounts compared to the 30 mg’s of morphine(30 thousand mics) that it would take to kill most non opiate abusing persons. Fentanyl/heroin mixtures are what the cops are most encountering.
So Fentanyl, aerosolized and blasted thru a mask or needle at about 500 micrograms might be enough to do the trick.
What the State means is they can’t find a Vendor that will charge them an Exorbitant Price for the Drugs.
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I would PREFER hanging.
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Worked for France.
“Quick, painless, effective.”
I take it the last time your were executed it was by firing squad, thus you can give such expert testimony that it is quick and painless. Think maybe you’ve been watching too much TV.
Sarcasm aside, a conventional firing squad in terms of instant death does not compare to what Russians used to do (or maybe still do), which is to simply shoot a person in the base of the skull with a upward trajectory. This would be instant, and if instant it would also be painless.
Can I be a shooter? I shot expert in the army?
Unlike you, I would prefer that the murdering bastards did suffer, I am pretty damn sure their victims did.
My preferred method would be televised IMPALEMENTS.
My understanding is that there is a method of impalement than can keep the murderer alive for days on the stake.
Make them suffer, just like their victims did.
I favor dynamite. It’s better at exposing hypocrisy.
Actually Dr. Joseph Guillotine invented the device as a very fast, humane method of execution.
I would agree with that option as long as all executions were public and televised.
After the Joseph Duncan case I wondered that myself and so checked - you have to be a law enforcement officer in Idaho at least. And they won't let you bring your own toys. Dang it.
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