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Posted on 02/07/2025 5:10:39 PM PST by Libloather
Idaho lawmakers have advanced a bill to make the state's newly revived firing squad its main method of execution as the quadruple murder trial of aspiring criminologist and alleged co-ed killer Bryan Kohberger approaches.
The bill, H0037, has advanced to the Idaho House floor after clearing the Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee Tuesday.
Bill sponsor Rep. Bruce Skaug, who previously pushed for legislation that restored the firing squad as a backup option to lethal injection, argued that the botched lethal injection of condemned serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech last year highlights problems with that method.
Creech was first sentenced to death for the murders of John Wayne Bradford and Edward Thomas Arnold in 1974. He was hitchhiking when the two picked him up. Then he shot them from behind.
He escaped death in that case when courts found the state's old sentencing law to be unconstitutional and his punishment was commuted to life in prison. But then he crushed another inmate's skull with a sock full of batteries and returned to death row in 1983 for the murder of David Dale Jensen.
He had previously been acquitted of the murder of Paul Schrader, 70, in Tucson, Arizona. However, investigators still think he was the killer. He's been convicted of five slayings altogether in Idaho, Oregon and California. He made dozens of additional confessions, although authorities say he is suspected of only six of those slayings.
"I, along with many others, believe the firing squad is more certain, has less appellate issues, and is more humane than other forms of execution," Skaug told Fox News Digital last month.
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Geez.
What happened to “short drop, sudden stop”?
KILL HIM LIKE A RABID DOG!
If the people are unwilling to carry out the death penalty with time-tested, reliable methods (axe, rope, rifle) because they are too squeamish for them, then it should be abolished.
The macabre re-creation of the ER/OR/ICU environment to deal out punishment is disgusting. People who find it acceptable are sick.
Mormonism belief that a person convicted to die should have their blood spilled, not be hanged or electrocuted. The spilling of blood somehow atones for their crime and they go to the mormon version of heaven.
After the Mountain Meadows Massacre, John D. Lee was executed by firing squad.
Lots of mormons in Idaho.
Just to be sure the firing squad is certain and humane, they should use Barrett .50 cal BMG - on full auto. Seven shooters should be enough . . .
Hanging or drowning would be a better, less honorable punishment.
Sounds like a job for Dexter Morgan.
“What happened to “short drop, sudden stop”?”
It’s a specialized art and there just ain’t nobody around anymore that can do it.
I’m sure that all We The People will willingly pay for whichever lethal drugs are necessary as long as not sourced/priced from Big crime Pharma.
but maybe even then if for BeriaGarland and/or FauxiMengeleGates
In this guy’s case, how about Javelins hurled by the victims’ families?
Let aggrieved families staff the Firing Squad.
“It’s a specialized art and there just ain’t nobody around anymore that can do it.”
Yep, be a shame if they messed up ..
or arrows lit on fire?
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See my FReeper profile for an alternative to the DP.
Then the highly reliable guillotine should be brought back.
Then the highly reliable guillotine should be utilized. Not sure they were ever used in the USA, but are certainly effective, and quick. Not cruel or “unusual” at all.
I dunno. That kinda got outa hand back there in the day in Pari.
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