What's the big deal about a firing squad? Is it considered unusually brutal compared to more modern methods?
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Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad
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 (March 12, 2015 at 7:50 pm)KUSA Wrote: What's the big deal about a firing squad? Is it considered unusually brutal compared to more modern methods? Lethal injection is supposed to be more humane.
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I do think the 30 seconds or so before being shot would be terrifying, at least if the warden gave a non-audial signal to the team. But LI seems not to be what it' was cracked up to be.
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 (March 12, 2015 at 7:09 pm)c172 Wrote: Louisiana doesn't, but apparently our gas chamber up in Marin County, Ca. is still legal. I always thought guillotine was the most humane way of execution for the to be executed. I don't know why squeamishness of observer should trump humanity towards those about to die.  (March 12, 2015 at 7:53 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(March 12, 2015 at 7:50 pm)KUSA Wrote: What's the big deal about a firing squad? Is it considered unusually brutal compared to more modern methods? There is a solution to this. Put the person to sleep with anesthesia then carry out whatever method is available. No pain, no terror, just sweet dreams into oblivion. RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad
March 12, 2015 at 8:20 pm
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(March 12, 2015 at 8:10 pm)KUSA Wrote:That's why I'd recommend a lethal morphine O.D.(March 12, 2015 at 7:53 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Lethal injection is supposed to be more humane. Even better, don't fucking kill 'em. It's a bit too permanent. The next innocent victim of capital punishment won't be the first, or the last.
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'Soylent Green' had it down. Put on video and sound of choice then pump 'em up with 'good' drugs.
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I don't know how the injection feels like but some critics of the death penalty have argued that it can sometimes be painful to the convicted.
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(March 12, 2015 at 8:20 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: The next innocent victim of capital punishment won't be the first, or the last.I am pro capital punishment. There are some people that just need removed from our society. However, there need to be stricter rules for sentencing. There must be some real evidence and not just "she said." or "We found a hair on the carpet". The asshole running into a liquor store and shooting the cashier and it is on video. Burn the motherfucker.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. -- Superintendent Chalmers Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things. -- Ned Flanders Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. -- The Rev Lovejoy
Sure. I believe there've been times that the heart chemicals started first by accident, instead of the anesthetic, causing cramps in the heart.
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