[nikos1121]

Why has been allowed to live this long?

[dirtboy]

The Utah Dept. of Corrections has previously told FOX 13 it does not have the chemicals necessary to carry out a lethal injection execution, so firing squad becomes the default method.

Just view it as a different method for lethal injection.

[hal ogen]

Take a tire iron to him...

What a waste of limited taxpayer resources.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

death by copper jacketed lead poisoning...works for me. I think Utah may be only state that still uses firing squad..much more sure than the three drug cocktail

[cranked]

Basic human instinct: Survival.

[Navy Patriot]

Utah should allow law abiding citizens the chance to bid for a spot on the firing squad.

[Tenacious 1]

In a hearing before the Utah Supreme Court on Wednesday, attorneys for Michael Anthony Archuleta argued that he is intellectually disabled.

What? Ok. We agree. Now "Ready! Aim!....."

[Dr. Sivana]

If I found myself in a position to have to choose between methods of execution, I would choose firing squad. It’s fast, effective, and has an air of nobility about it that lethal injection does not have.

Viva Christo Rey!

[Red Badger]

Why can’t they use heroin?...................

[Blackirish]

“Lets do it” ......Gary Gilmore

[DoughtyOne]

Well your honors, I do deserve compassion, understanding, and leniency here...

LMAO

Let the festivities begin. You got decades more life than the victim did.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is what Michael Anthony Archuleta and his partner in crime did to their 28 year old victim:

“The 28-year-old Southern Utah University student was taken by two recent parolees to a remote location in Millard County, where the men attached jumper cables to his testicles, used the car battery to shock him and then sodomized Church with a tire iron to the extent that his liver was pierced. They then beat Church to death with a car jack before burying him in a shallow grave.”

Archuleta is intellectually disabled. And morally disabled. And because of it, he deserves to be shot to death.

[butlerweave]

Ready ,Aim ,FIRE , already

[AndyTheBear]

The Utah Dept. of Corrections has previously told FOX 13 it does not have the chemicals necessary to carry out a lethal injection execution, so firing squad becomes the default method.

When our family dog was terminally ill, they gave her one shot so the second shot wouldn't hurt. She passed away peacefully in my arms as I cried my eyes out. Easily, and painlessly and effectively. It was a hard thing to do emotionally...but technically it seemed rather simple and straight forward. So why is it so technically difficult for those in charge of administering capital punishment? For myself, I am not sure I could bring myself to take a human life even in cases where they deserve it, and am thankful it is not my job....but as a technical issue it seems it can't be that difficult to do lethal injection right if the vets can do it so easily.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

It is a mormon religion belief that some people are so evil they must have their blood shed for redemption. In the pre-Statehood days it was by often by having your throat cut. John D Lee, who was the ONLY man convicted in the Mountain Meadows Massacre was executed by firing squad.

[Arm_Bears]

I don’t see a problem here.

If he’s intellectually disabled he won’t know what’s going on anyway.

[JPG]

Why don't you have a seat, right here. Would you like some iced tea? Cookies?

[Vendome]

What lead to this?

[Vendome]

What was the primer that lead to this case?

[savedbygrace]

They didn’t just rape the victim with a tire iron. They inserted the tire iron into his rectum and shoved it 18 inches into the man’s body, and it punctured his liver.

FIRE!