Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad

[Ravenshire]

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.

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.

[Dystopia]

Japan doesn't use capital punishment as often as the US, but they hang people

Executions are carried out by hanging in a death chamber within the detention centre. When a death order has been issued, the condemned prisoner is informed in the morning of his/her execution. The condemned is given a choice of the last meal. The prisoner's family and legal representatives are not informed until afterwards. Since 7 December 2007, the authorities have been releasing the names, natures of crime and ages of executed prisoners.[8]

The method of hanging is a substantial drop, causing a quick death by neck fracture. It was not always thus. When Kanno Sugako was hanged in 1911: "...she was ordered to sit upright on the floor. Two thin cords were placed around her neck. The floor-board was removed, In twelve minutes she was dead."[9]

As of late March 2012, there were 135 people awaiting execution in Japan.[10][11] A total of nine convicted murderers were executed in 2007.[12] Three men were executed on 23 August 2007,[13] four men were executed on 25 December 2006,[14] one execution was carried out in 2005[15] and two in 2004.[1]

Two inmates were executed in July 2010,[16] three in March 2012,[17] three in February 2013,[18] and two in April 2013, one in September and two in December 2013.[19]

As of August 2014, the number of inmates in death-row was 126. Of them, 89 are applying for their cases to be reopened and 25 are requesting amnesty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_pun...t_in_Japan

I don't know which is worse between hanging, lethal injection, electric chair and firing squad.

[Cato]

My question is: who in the hell agrees to be on a firing squad?

I'm sure the state is full of Apostolic Mountain Meadowers.

[abaris]

My question is: who in the hell agrees to be on a firing squad?

There's a better question yet: Who agrees to be an executioner of any sorts?

I don't know which is worse between hanging, lethal injection, electric chair and firing squad.

Look up Don Cabana. He has a few choice words to say about any method. He got semi famous because he was the warden in the documentary 14 days in may. Quite a few former wardens have turned opponents of capital punishment. They are the ones who have to oversee the job after all and it seems as if it's not as clean as the political chair farters wants the people to believe.

[c172]

Public viewing could get a little messy...

Are they going full bore? Everyone's got a bullet? Or the old no one knows who killed him gambit where all but one or two have blanks?

Also, how many stories of people getting shot in the head and surviving do we hear?

If you survive a firing squad, do you get to go home?

If I have to choose a method, I'd take Le Rasoir National, La Monte-à-regret---Madame la Guillotine.

Shot in the heart. Four out of five rifles. Indoor chamber also set up for lethal injection.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Public viewing could get a little messy...

Are they going full bore? Everyone's got a bullet? Or the old no one knows who killed him gambit where all but one or two have blanks?

Also, how many stories of people getting shot in the head and surviving do we hear?

If you survive a firing squad, do you get to go home?

If I have to choose a method, I'd take Le Rasoir National, La Monte-à-regret---Madame la Guillotine.

The reportage I've heard has a crew of five volunteers, with one gun loaded with blanks, shooting for the heart from 30 feet.

If you're going to have the death penalty, give 'em a mix of alcohol and barbituates.

[c172]

The 2010 firing squad (for Ronnie Lee Gardner) was said to be anonymous officers of Unified Police Department (Salt Lake County, UT).

[Ravenshire]

I'm not in favor of the death penalty, but it seems to me they make killing a guy way fucking harder than it needs to be. What's the big deal about using a specific, expensive drug cocktail (especially one that allegedly inflicts pain) when you can simply put them on a nice inexpensive IV drip of highly concentrated morphine and let 'em just drift away. Firing squad for fucks sake?!? So, maybe Washington state can bring back hanging (if they still have capital punishment). Hell, I think Louisiana still uses the gas chamber though last I heard it was being fought because it's a rather horrible way to die. Electric chair anyone?!? What the hell. Let's just set their feet in concrete and drop 'em in the pool.

[c172]

Louisiana doesn't, but apparently our gas chamber up in Marin County, Ca. is still legal.

[Ravenshire]

Louisiana doesn't, but apparently our gas chamber up in Marin County, Ca. is still legal.

Yeah, Mississippi, not Louisiana, had the gas chamber. It's not been used since 1984 though so my info was way out of date.

California - Provides that lethal injection be administered unless the inmate requests lethal gas.

34 states plus the federal government and the U.S. military utilize capital punishment. All use lethal injection but half of the states have back-up methods in case the drugs are not available or in many cases if the inmate requests their other method.

Pretty good site for more info and the source for the above info.