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Federal Judge: Forget Lethal Injections, Use Firing Squads
Newser ^ | July 22, 2014 | Rob Quinn

Posted on 07/22/2014 3:00:08 AM PDT by Enterprise

Killing people is a brutal and messy business and if Americans can't deal with that, they shouldn't be condemning people to death, a top federal judge says. In a strongly worded dissent in an Arizona lethal-injection case, Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals, calls the current system "inherently flawed" and says states that want to execute inmates should return to more "primitive—and foolproof—methods" of execution, NBC reports. "The guillotine is probably best but seems inconsistent with our national ethos. And the electric chair, hanging and the gas chamber are each subject to occasional mishaps," he writes. "The firing squad strikes me as the most promising. Eight or ten large-caliber rifle bullets fired at close range can inflict massive damage, causing instant death every time.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bullets; deathpenalty; executions; firingsquad; guns
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To: Enterprise

Firing squads with today’s ammo prices??? Why not just feed them Michelle Obama’s school lunches and be done with it?


21 posted on 07/22/2014 3:44:49 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Enterprise

I vote for the guillotine!!!


22 posted on 07/22/2014 3:46:40 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: cynwoody
Be careful what you wish for.

According to this, thousands of guillotines have been purchased by the U.S. government, to be used in the future on resistors to the New World Order, i.e. people like us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujX8evzRXN0

23 posted on 07/22/2014 3:47:35 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Sherman Logan

Indeed you just need one bullet that would blow the head clean off to quote Dirty Harry.


24 posted on 07/22/2014 3:48:42 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Rodamala

These punishments should be reserved for only the most heinous crimes, such as failure to use sarcasm tags.


25 posted on 07/22/2014 3:51:34 AM PDT by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: Enterprise

Rope is a much more earth-friendly solution.

Low-tech, reusable, renewable resource, etc.

Even better, make the rope from hemp!


26 posted on 07/22/2014 3:52:15 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Jess Kitting

Why does your boy let his Mac speak for him? Whackjob nonsense!


27 posted on 07/22/2014 3:52:59 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: P.O.E.

——reusable-—

Reusable? is that sanitary?


28 posted on 07/22/2014 3:53:35 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: bert

Just make them wear a plastic bag over their head. For their safety.


29 posted on 07/22/2014 3:56:38 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Enterprise

The problem “Progressives” have with the death penalty is that they (officially) don’t believe in life after death, heaven and hell, or the Final Judgement.

They do not believe in accountability (except for some of their enemies) and they do not believe in absolute truth.

Execution involves ALL of these factors. Death for a criminal from old age just involves “passing the buck” to subsequent generations until “Nature” takes her course.

Kinda like the National Debt, the Social Security “Lockbox” and the Highway Trust Fund.

Bovine excrement can at least be utilized to fertilize fields. Congress, Federal bureaucrats and liberal judges cannot be used for even that.

They are TOTALLY useless. (”Without redeeming social value?”)


30 posted on 07/22/2014 4:00:41 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "For those who have fought for it, Life bears a savor the protected will never know")
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To: Rodamala

I like the gravy/wolverine idea...


31 posted on 07/22/2014 4:05:25 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: bert
Hmmmm....... Hanging was not mentioned. It is cheap and Saddam Hussein taught us , quite effective.

In the process of becoming two quarter brothers, Saddam's half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, managed to combine the best of the guillotine and the rope into one execution.

Pic

32 posted on 07/22/2014 4:06:10 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
Maybe he doesn't want people to recognize his voice.

He's not the only one:

Beheading Prophecy from Revelation

33 posted on 07/22/2014 4:11:21 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Enterprise

Nice thought, but the lawyers will probably sue due to the lead content of the bullets posing a cancer threat to the about-to-be-executed inmates.

...and they’ll probably win.


34 posted on 07/22/2014 4:22:24 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Jess Kitting
And I saw thrones, and they that sat on them. And judgment was given to them, and to the souls of the ones having been beheaded because of the witness of Jesus, and because of the Word of God, and who had not worshipped the beast nor its image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand.

Revelation 20:4

35 posted on 07/22/2014 4:24:39 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Enterprise; All

These two boys are long gone!

36 posted on 07/22/2014 4:35:41 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave (The democ"RAT"ic party preys on the ignorant..!)
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To: Enterprise
Ohio is on the right track here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfsMMVgIToA
37 posted on 07/22/2014 4:48:19 AM PDT by j_guru
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To: Enterprise

You can tell by the first line this is a UNIFORMED LIBERAL IDIOT!

The Death Penalty since they went to the injection method is more like going in for a operation and not waking up.

I just had my beloved Rocket put down when Doc found wide spread cancer while trying to remove a kidney stone. He just never woke up from the surgery. He never will suffer the slow painful death of wide spread cancer.

NOW that the subject is OPEN YOUR HELP IS NEEDED ASAP! WE HAVE THE WORST KIND OF KILLER STILL BREATHING AND A SPINELESS GOP RINO GOV.A CHILD RAPIST/KILLER, NIKKI WAS JUST 8 YEARS OLD. Her killer has been on death row longer than she lived on earth.

Ashley ‘Nikki’ Read, 2 juries decided that the Death Penalty was the correct punishment for the RAPE and MURDER of this 8 year old.. ALL APPEALS have run out. Justice delayed is Justice DENIED!

TN Gov email is bill.haslam@tn.gov
615 741-2001

David Keen
http://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/keen-david.htm

This CHILD RAPIST HAS RUN OUT OF ALL 20 YRS OF APPEALS, TN GOV Halsam still has NOT SET AN EXECUTION DATE OR SIGNED A DEATH WARRANT, EMAIL HIM TO DO SO bill.haslam@tn.gov 615 741-2001 Phone calls are more effective.

This is 20 years of appeals. 24 YRS SINCE THE CRIME. TOOK ONLY THE DNA TO PROVE WHO DID IT, #1 SUSPECT. DNA & confession proved he raped, strangled to death with her OWN SHOE LACES 8 year old Ashley ‘Nicki’ Read and then threw her body in the river. Even helped hunt for what was thought to be a missing child.


38 posted on 07/22/2014 4:48:34 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: Enterprise

I worked with one of the victims of a man on Az Death Row. (A family member was brutally murdered). She told me how horrible it was when the time came (finally) for him to be executed and the MEDIA, et al, were pleading to spare this man the inhumane treatment of the Death Penalty. It’s as if the victim’s families were being victimized over again and NONE of the media et al, thought to ask her how she felt. It was as if the Murderer was the Victim. She would watch people protesting, pleading with signs to save this multi-murderer’s life, while ignoring her family member’s brutal murder and the other victims. It was as if the victims didn’t exist and if their names were mentioned, it was in passing, almost as if the media et al, wanted to make the victims inhuman.


39 posted on 07/22/2014 4:49:50 AM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Haha, imagine the outcry from the Hoplophobes.


40 posted on 07/22/2014 4:50:58 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (You cannot protect a child from child abuse by aborting it. Abortion *is* child abuse.)
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