Posted on 03/18/2022 10:14:23 PM PDT by Morgana
South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad executions, a method codified into state law last year after a decade-long pause in carrying out death sentences because of the state´s inability to procure lethal injection drugs.
The state Corrections Department said Friday that renovations have been completed on the death chamber in Columbia and that the agency had notified Attorney General Alan Wilson that it was able to carry out a firing-squad execution.
The state had blocked executions last May after its new capital punishment law allowed death row inmates to choose death by electrocutions, lethal injection or firing squad, with the state not having the proper procedures in place for the later two options.
It allowed death row inmates Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens, both convicted murderers, to delay their executions for a lack of options, but if the state Supreme Court approves the new firing squad policies, they could be the first to be executed by the method in 12 years.
According to officials, the death chamber now also includes a metal chair, with restraints, in the corner of the room in which inmates will sit if they choose execution by firing squad. That chair faces a wall with a rectangular opening, 15 feet away, through which the three shooters will fire their weapons.
State officials also have created protocols for carrying out the executions. The three shooters, all volunteers who are employees of the Corrections Department, will have rifles loaded with live ammunition, with their weapons trained on the inmate's heart.
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AutoCorrect be raciss!
Yep. This is the answer. If some want to limit access to certain drugs, fine. Bullets work. Ropes work. We need not overly complicate this.
I often think of the same thing. It’s cheap, available and it kills.
You can construct the Walter White method using a bump stock with a timer on a
trigger bar or just a trigger bar attached to several rifles and timer mechanism.
Nobody has to fire the shot. Or you can attach a rope to a helmet so when the
subject falls asleep and his head drops - BANG. Or he can choose his own
moment. - BANG Or if he sneezes - BANG.
Not always.
The first murderer in “In Cold Blood” to be excited hung for half an hour and didn’t die...
Singapore does proper hangings because they get the practice. They would probably train us just for actual expenses because they like Americans.
Three firing squad members will be behind the wall, with rifles facing the inmate through the opening.
The rifles and open portal will not be visible from the witness room. All three rifles will be loaded with live ammunition.
The witnesses will see the right-side profile of the inmate. The inmate will not face the witness room directly. The electric chair faces the witnesses directly.
The inmate will wear a prison-issued uniform and be escorted into the chamber.
The inmate will be given the opportunity to make a last statement.
The inmate will be strapped into the chair, and a hood will be placed over his head. A small aim point will be placed over his heart by a member of the execution team.
After the warden reads the execution order, the team will fire.
After the shots, a doctor will examine the inmate. After the inmate is declared dead, the curtain will be drawn and witnesses escorted out.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10629069/South-Carolina-ready-use-death-firing-squad.html
Hemp and Manila rope still works.
The problem with giving government the power of the death penalty is that they eventually use it as a means of attacking their political opponents
It also gives prosecutors more leverage and they typically abuse that leverage to further their career aspirations.
Government is too powerful. Defendants that feel they have no choice may opt to take out as many police and government agents as possible and die fighting. I think we’ll start seeing more of that as the legal system races to the bottom. I guess that’s one way of getting rid of bad people in government and out.
Clorox? Antifreeze?
A loaded rifle has considerable recoil, a blank has none.
That is not true. The casings are already full to the brim. (I reload) Any other propellant would explode the rifle.
I watched for a long time. That little magazine seems to never run dry.
He was too excited to die!
...”attacking their political opponents.”
See my FReeper profile for a suggested alternative to the death penalty.
It’s still a lethal injection. It just doesn’t use a catheter and requires ear plugs.
Every veterinarian has an ample supply of euthanasia meds. What is this short supply narrative?
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