Utah Votes to Bring Back Firing Squad

[Minimalist]

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

Utah is full of gun nuts. All of them are just dying to shoot someone.

[Mudhammam]

Where in Michigan, FNM?

[Thumpalumpacus]

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.

Well, gosh, let's get some use out of them, and never mind any conflicts of interest -- test our new drugs on them. Use them to examine hazmat scenes. We've got the most realistic crash-test dummies already in our possession.

What are we thinking?!

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That's why I'd recommend a lethal morphine O.D.

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.

Me, I'd consider life without parole a much greater torment.