One wonders how many citizens have volunteered to fire a rifle...
It is undoubtedly the quickest; which they don’t really deserve.
Get on with it.
Good choice guys, now enjoy your very special day.
Personally, I don’t think we should be giving these POS a choice — just kill them. I also don’t think we should give then any more than 30 minutes notice as to when they were going to be executed.
Put it on Pay-Per-View. We could pay off the national debt.
The Mormon religion says something about the spilling of blood being required to atone for murder. There’s a good chance that the murderers are Mormon and are choosing a firing squad for this reason.
Let’s Get It On!
I think there are two of the eight who have the option, but haven’t chosen the needle or the bullet, yet. They were convicted before the firing squad was taken off the table.
I think they should also be given the choice of dying in the same manner as their victims
Death by firing squad is probably less painful.
Having an IV needle stuck in one’s arm is painful, and the discomfort is continuous once the needle is in place. Firing squad stops the heart instantly; unconsciousness and death follow quickly.
Not that I care too much about the comfort of murderers, but it seems a top concern of anti-death penalty zealots. As far as I’m concerned, murderers are only entitled to as much comfort as they gave their victims.
It works every time.
No use fooling oneself about injection. Injection allows the onlookers to convince themselves that the condemned man doesn’t suffer. There is no blood with injection. The illusion is that he goes to sleep.
Firing squad is fast and efficient. It was predictable that the left would object to it because they are against anything having to do with a gun.
What do you want on your tombstone?
There is a deeper meaning here. Lethal injection is felt by many to be dehumanizing, making a person die like an animal instead of a human being, even if they are a murderer.
Granted, socialists intensely dislike the death penalty for criminals, for myriad bizarre, twisted reasons, preferring instead to slaughter the helpless with abortion and euthanasia. But in their case it *always* contains a strong element of dehumanization. Children in the womb aren’t humans, but just tissue; and the elderly and incapacitated are just disposable, like trash.
Socialists hate individuality, and want people to become generic, gray things, seeing the conformity of the herd of sheep, or even a hive of bees, as preferable to looking at their face in the mirror and seeing what an utter failure they are as people.
Even a savage murderer, facing his death upright, be it by hanging or firing squad, is a human being first, an individual, and thus better than any number of socialists.
Certainly he may be hated by society and those who he has killed and their families, but his real judgment is yet to come, and not for other people to make.
Justice can only demand his life, not his humanity. His life should be enough.
line them up, lets roll
A better death than getting your throat slit.
meanwhile, another death row inmate in California died, of natural causes.
Go Utah!
Nostalgic baby boomers?