Un La Paloma Blanca must play beforehand or at the time of execution.
* The Team Leader issues a firearm and three magazines to each member of the firing squad
Why does each member need three magazines?...............
Ready aim fire. Practice for about two minutes.
No ne gets executed in Idaho. They die from old age on death row first.
What do you guys think they use? 30-06?
I have to say that if I was going to be executed, I’d probably pick the firing squad. Much better than the gas chamber or electric chair. And with the recent misfires with lethal injection, probably cleaner than that too. If you still are alive after the first shot, someone walks up to you and puts a bullet in your head and that’s it. You’re gone.
Woody Allen firing squad despite the threat of an angry letter to the Times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U72xvlbn-k
Sell lottery tickets to be on the firing squad. Think of the fundraising money that could bring into the state coffers.
Nothing says execution should be painless. Just tie them down on a concrete slab and drop a 10-ton slab on top of them. Scrape it up and burn what’s left. Done and practically painless for all intents and purposes.
Rule 1: Shoot them above the waist.
The Guillotine, or the German Fallbeil work. Every time, and one could say they are pretty quick and relatively painless.
*BRING BACK THE BOATS!*
To ensure accuracy, the condemned will have a fake baby draped over his or her chest and at least one FBI sharpshooter shall be part of the detail.
Nitrogen is 100% lethal, quick and the mind doesn’t have a panic trigger for lack of oxygen. The can’t breathe panic is rising CO2 in the blood stream not lack of O2. Lack of O2 is euphoria and then tunnel vision and loss of consciousness.
Death by nitrogen gas is completely painless it’s why it’s the chosen method for assisted suicide everywhere in the EU you just go to sleep and then 4 minutes later brain death it’s 100% certain.
A couple years ago we had some guys enter a oil storage tank one after another each one fell out and died because it was a low Ox environment and none of them panicked and had a reflex to get out before they passed out. Which takes 30 seconds or so.
I believe Utah used Model 94 Winchesters and five shooters for Gary Gilmore. Five shooters and one blank still gives a high probability of at least three heart shots. The .30-30 Winchester round is plenty of gun and there’s no failure to eject the blank to identify the non-shooter.*
The shooters fired through gun ports in a wall that was put there to protect them from ricochets. The rifles were fired off-hand (not from a gun rest or the like) but they could use the gun port as a rifle rest. All firing squad members fired several test shots in their ‘training’ and one failure to hit the target got you booted from the squad.
Gilmore’s younger brother has always maintained that he viewed the body afterwards and counted five bullet holes his brother’s shirt. So maybe the blank has always been a myth.
The state told the press that the autopsy confirmed that all four shots had hit the heart but I read an independent report later that stated Gilmore’s heart had been so completely obliterated that the coroner had to ask for a second opinion to confirm that the goo in Gilmore’s chest had in fact once been his heart. Which would bring to question whether it was possible to determine how many projectiles had hit the target.
*People often bring up the blank cartridges’ lack of recoil but in all centerfire rifle cartridges, the ejecta (the cloud of hot gas and burning gunpowder blowing out the end of the barrel) causes more recoil than the bullet itself (the “jet” principle). Commercial blank cartridges only use a tiny amount of gunpowder, enough to make a ‘POP!’ and virtually no recoil (but they can still kill, just ask Jon-Erik Hexum).
If there ever was a blank, it probably was home-made by pulling the bullet/projectile out of a factory-made cartridge from one of the same boxes of ammo they’d bought for the execution. Then they improvised a plug to obstruct the case mouth to prevent the gunpowder spilling out. That way it would have the same powder charge as the ‘live’ rounds, but without a bullet to get in its way, the charge wouldn’t build up near as much chamber pressure. So there would have been less recoil but it wouldn’t have been ‘starter pistol’ light.
South Carolina uses three shooters, no blanks and (according to press accounts) Winchester .308s. Not much more detail has leaked out about the why-fors and how-comes.
https://www.shootingtimes.com/editorial/gunpowder-contribution-to-recoil/328788