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Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad
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RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad
(March 12, 2015 at 6:06 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: If you survive a firing squad, do you get to go home?

No. While it's been a popular belief that people who survive an attempted execution get to go free, it's not the normals case.

Quote:The belief that a person who survives execution cannot legally be executed again is, for the most part, a myth. That is why the pronouncement of many death sentences ends with the words "until dead." That means whatever it takes, however long it takes, you're riding this train to your final destination.

But it wasn't always that way. In the past, people who survived judicial executions often did escape with their lives. It was often seen as an act of God and a declaration of innocence. Sometimes it was just considered shoddy work. Below are some examples of people who survived their own executions — even if only for a while:
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Of course, I could see some of the faithers on this site pardoning someone who survived on the grounds that gawd acted to spare him. [Image: free-rolleye-smileys-323.gif]
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Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Faith No More - March 12, 2015 at 5:18 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Esquilax - March 12, 2015 at 5:22 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Minimalist - March 12, 2015 at 5:23 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by abaris - March 12, 2015 at 5:35 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Dystopia - March 12, 2015 at 5:45 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Ravenshire - March 12, 2015 at 6:28 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by c172 - March 12, 2015 at 6:37 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Cato - March 12, 2015 at 6:32 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by abaris - March 12, 2015 at 6:33 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Minimalist - March 12, 2015 at 9:53 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Dystopia - March 12, 2015 at 6:32 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by c172 - March 12, 2015 at 6:41 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Ravenshire - March 12, 2015 at 6:44 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by c172 - March 12, 2015 at 7:09 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Ravenshire - March 12, 2015 at 7:46 pm
Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by KUSA - March 12, 2015 at 7:50 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Ravenshire - March 12, 2015 at 7:53 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by c172 - March 12, 2015 at 7:55 pm
Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by KUSA - March 12, 2015 at 8:10 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Ravenshire - March 12, 2015 at 8:20 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by IATIA - March 12, 2015 at 8:50 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by IATIA - March 12, 2015 at 8:35 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Dystopia - March 12, 2015 at 8:41 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by c172 - March 12, 2015 at 8:51 pm
RE: Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad - by Mudhammam - March 12, 2015 at 11:26 pm

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