Posted on 09/12/2014 12:28:14 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Wyoming Department of Corrections should be able to employ a firing squad to execute condemned inmates if the state can't find the drugs to carry out lethal injections, a legislative committee voted Friday.
There's been talk this year about reinstituting the firing squad in Utah. That state outlawed execution by firing squad in 2004, but kept it as an option for inmates convicted before that time. It last executed an inmate by firing squad in 2010.
Linda Burp, director of the ACLU in Wyoming, said the United States stands with such nations as China, Iraq and Syria in continuing to employ the death penalty. "The reason that we are here today is because most Western nations do not believe in the death penalty," Burp said.
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I’m not sure about the parading kids just yet.
I raised 3 boys, none were pansies. I think forcing them to view such a sight would have troubled them for a long while, and not in any positive way.
It should be by choice, and maybe earned, like staying after school to clean erasers or something. Have to clean erasers 10 times before you get to go.
they could even just keep him in a small airtight container over his head, strapped in a chair, and just give him an injectible sedative that would last a few hours. he’d die from co2 poisoning shortly, no other gasses needed. I have heard it’s actually euphoric from the studies and situations gone wrong.
“Or just a 30.06 to the forehead. Even faster, jokes aside. A brain splattered on a wall in a microsecond cannot ‘feel’ anything.”
I am for suicide. A little button on the wall that when pushed fires a 30.06 bullet into the brain. From the first day the convict is on death row, until the day he is executed. Convicts wait 15-20 years... Come on scum, push the button.
Here is how it works. There is a hole in the wall where the gun goes. You have to validate by closing the circuit. Hands go on wall, feet go in stirrups, and the minute the head touches the hole, circuit is closed and BANG!
I’m all in favor of states passing laws to have it as “an option”, particularly because they will likely need it as an option, because of niggling federal judges and other busybodies; and because it would be particularly hard to attack it on constitutional grounds.
Hopefully it will become a primary means of execution, and a lot of multiple heinous murderers will get turned off quicker because of it.
Will the condemned get to choose the caliber?
The thing is that all a state has to do is pass an ammendment/law legalizing the training of an official executioner. and it gets to pick the rules without AMA approval. If they use the ‘well rarely some people are conscious under anesthesia and come out of it remembering so we can’t” arguement, there are two points. One, the whole point is they don’t come out of it. 2: A 30.06 is the alternative
Thus, Put it to a vote/pass both laws, amend them to the constitution and forcefully prosecute any lib ACLU idiot for obstruction of justice...as a death penalty crime.
I’d prefer they use helium.
That way the condemned person’s last words will always make me laugh.
The contradictions from the left are many. They object to lethal injection as cruel and unusual punishment, but yet it’s considered a mercy when used for euthanasia.
Or they could lock the condemned inside an idling 1962 Chevy Biscayne with a leaky exhaust, enclosed in a small garage.
When was the firing squad last used here? Was there any kind of “cruel and unusual” appeal made before that occasion?
Works well I’d think.
But honestly, this whole thing is academic anyway. In a matter of months of not years, we are going to be in full on societal collapse anyway thanks to the double whammy of libs and muslims. There are going to be far faster and street level solutions to DP issues.
Helium is expensive.
Or have ‘em go out like a stoner at a Phish Concert... Nitrous Oxide.
I have no problem with them employing the firing squad to execute convicted murderers. In fact, it would seem an easy way to resolve the whining that goes on about lethal injection.
Perhaps we need the advice of an expert like Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who died in 1634 at the age of 80. after performing 394 executions by various techniques, over 350 floggings, and assorted tortures, such as stripping the flesh, which he dutifully recorded in his diary during the time he was chief executioner for the Nuremberg courts. The details are included in Joel F. Harrington's 2013 historical book, The Faithful Executioner: Life and death, honour and shame in the turbulent sixteenth century.
A few details are in Richard J. Evans' book review, "Broken by the wheel – the diary of an executioner." Being broken at the wheel has some potential application today for politicians convicted of treason, with the Constitution's "cruel and unusual" proscription being interpreted relative to the crime.
Six dollars worth of cement, a chain, a padlock and a boat.
See if the criminal can swim with sixty pounds of cement attached to one foot.
A .30 to .45 cal. injection of copper/lead would indeed be quick, painless, inexpendive and efficient.
Death by firing squad has too much romance attached to it.
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Well, in the current political environment, at least nobody is going to be offering the condemned a “last cigarette”!
“Will the condemned get to choose the caliber?”
A pellet gun, however many shots it takes.
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