Posted on 05/17/2021 5:41:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Fun to be on the firing squad. :D.
lol
A third option would be the guillotine.
Could be a year before any ammo shows up!
I’d pick both.
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I’d like to see them sentenced to death by darts. That’d be a whole lotta sufferin’ goin’ on.
Gary Gilmore was given a choice of death by hanging or firing squad. He told his sentencing judge he preferred the firing squad because they might “botch up” his hanging. He was shot to death by five law enforcement officers with .30-.30 rifles purportedly with one rifle loaded with a blank round to assuage any guilt in the officers’ minds. Also, over two hundred people wrote the governor volunteering for the firing squad and stated they would bring their own weapon and ammunition.
When Gary Gilmore was executed they used .303 Enfields that were pre-aimed and bolted to a board. Three or four bullets were blanks and since the rifles were secured no one could tell by the recoil who had live rounds. The riflemen were deputies from the county where he was convicted, which was Utah County. Gilmore wore a shirt with an outline of a heart. His last words were “let’s do it”. They did.
Jesus
Just give them the covid vax
At least a couple will die
I know this is a Shot in the Dark but this is Shocking News.
Wood chipper or drawn and quartered...
Should add nitrogen asphyxiation.
Strap the condemned down, put on a brain wave monitor, breathing mask that covers the mouth and nose, supply 99% pure nitrogen at 1.1 atmospheres. Wait till the brain waves go flat, wait 5 more min ... and done.
No burnt flesh, no blood splatter, no searching for a vein, no lawyer suits about pain and suffering, no chemicals or drugs.
Not me! My dad used to be a television repairman and he'd take me to the shop to help. At some point he'd always end up telling me not to touch the red wire cause it'd "knock you through the wall." Sort of put me off electricity for life!
Why not just use a hangmans noose?If it was good enough for Sadaam Hussein it is good enough for these Murderers who have outlived their usefulness and their appeals.
“Who’s next?”
-thrown in a volcano in Hawaii
-buried in a landfill in New Jersey
-having molten steel poured in a foundry in Pennsylvania
-crushed in a hydraulic press in a Detroit factory
-dropped from an airplane in a Nevada military operations area
-bitten or stung by any assortment of things in Australia
-shot by a mugger on a New York City subway platform
+1 👍
The left had to screw around and create shortages of lethal injection drugs so this is what you get.
We know exactly how to do executions in such a way that the entire canard of 'cruel and unusual punishment' doesn't come into the equation.
You simply have an air-tight room into which the condemned is taken and strapped to a gurney or chair. The air in the room is replaced with pure nitrogen, a gas that is already 78% of every single breath you take. Wait 15 minutes, then pump a normal mix of air into the room, then wheel out the corpse. The condemned will be standing before Satan or God before he even realizes he is dead.
Nitrogen suffocation does not trigger the asphyxiation response. It is CO2 buildup that does that. Industrial sites where there is a chance of nitrogen build-up are very aware of the fact that people can die in such an environment without even realizing that anything at all was wrong. OSHA has tons of regulations surrounding this issue.
This solution is simple, cheap, involves no poisons or medications (which implicate the Hippocratic oath). The air from the room can be safely vented straight into the atmosphere.
It may not be as emotionally satisfying as some methods of execution, but it is effective and painless. The person is removed from this earth, and will deal with his ultimate fate post haste.
Bringing in things like firing squads, or electrocution will simply cloud the issue. I prefer for it to be a clean question of 'does the state have the power/duty to kill for some crimes'? If so, be civilized about it. If not, then get rid of the practice entirely. Clouding up the issue with the specter of firing squads or the electric chair throws huge wrenches into the process that it is way past time for us to get past.
One of the reasons I think it is way past time for the issue of the method of execution to be settled once and for all is that it will unmask many who use the issue of the method of execution to hide behind the fact that they simply do not want the state to execute anyone but are not honest enough to say so.
If we're going to have a serious discussion of capital punishment, IMO it should be focused fully on whether or not the state should have this power at all, not anything else. Once that is fully settled the issue itself should be settled as well.
There are folks who are strongly opposed to the state having this power because they simply do not think it is a power the state should have. Others object on religious grounds. Both of these are valid points of view and should be argued forthrightly without other issues (such as how the execution would be carried out) interfering.
These days, given how little faith I have in the honesty of government actors at any level, or in the legal system itself, which seems to have left 'Justice' beaten and bloody in a back room, I tend to give more credence to arguments against it than I once would.
OTOH, I don't know how it is 'justice' to have someone supported for the rest of their life by taxpayers while they contribute nothing at all to society at large.
Overall, I think some crimes justify the death penalty. I would just like to have more confidence though, that the condemned is actually guilty of the crime he is accused of.
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