Note the bullet holes. (They may need some sharpshooter training before the next one IMHO)
Posted on 06/18/2010 8:20:26 AM PDT by markomalley
Note the bullet holes. (They may need some sharpshooter training before the next one IMHO)
Why?
Won’t be a next one. This was it for the firing squad.
Personally, I think it’s a much better way to die than the drug cocktail.
I do wish he had apoligized to the family for his last words, as picking this form of execution stuck me as marginally more noble than others.
An amazing recount of the execution.
“(They may need some sharpshooter training before the next one IMHO)”
According to CNN, the firing squad was comprised of “law enforcement professionals”. IMO four deer hunters would have done a better job/s;)
those are exits, probably deflected and tumbled passing thru.
I swear, I think I’d prefer a guillotine over any of the common methods.
They may have spread them intentionally to do the maximum amount of trauma in the area around the heart. Note that there is little vertical stringing, just horizontal.
That’s some pretty sloppy shooting...they couldn’t even fire in unison apparently.
Remember they were firing from slightly different angles.
Four holes. One random blank so no one knows for sure who killed him?
From the manual, they were all supposed to fire their rounds into a group the size of a quarter. As it turned out, they were all over his chest.
If you draw a simple diagram with the riflemen 25’ from Gardener, standing 4’ apart, aiming at a 4” target and impacting with the chair 18” behind the target, I think that would account for the spread of the group.
He had the choice of lethal injection. He chose lethal lead injection.
Where a round comes out isn’t necessarily in line with where it went in. The reporters account said they were all “on target”...............
Shooting at such small target, I wonder if bullets “tap” each other.
They actually should do a head shot, severing the brain stem. You hit someone in the heart there is plenty of blood left in the brain for them to be conscious and aware for a while after he has been shot.
The pain he felt when the bullets entered his heart is nothing compared to the pain of the judgement he receives from his creator.
.....As it turned out, they were all over his chest.
From the article: “Over his left breast clung a white square, about 2 inches by 2 inches, with a circle in the middle. “
Only one hole fell outside the circle, but still on the 2 inch target. I wouldn’t classify that as “All over his chest.”
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