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Posted on 06/08/2010 2:57:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Barring a last-minute reprieve, Ronnie Lee Gardner will be strapped into a chair, a hood will be placed over his head and a small white target will be pinned over his heart.
The order will come: "Ready, aim..."
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Sitting?
"Lets do it!"
oh please run it live on TV
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Man, I thought you stood on your own two legs with a blind fold. Maybe even tied to a tall fence post. Learned something new today!
I wonder why he wants the firing squad. Odd choice.
All that needs to be said is IDIOT! Moral relativist lefty confused by the simplest of philosophical situations.
I don’t think I’ve ever read that before. Thanks.
“Utah was a long holdout in keeping the method, which it has used in 40 of its 49 executions in the last 160 years.”
Slackers. Texas does as much a year.
“”The firing squad is archaic, it’s violent, and it simply expands on the violence that we already experience from guns as a society,””
So is rape, stabbing, mutilating, shooting, among other things.
“He was convicted of capital murder 25 years ago for the 1985 fatal courthouse shooting of attorney Michael Burdell during a botched escape attempt.”
Monster. He should have been shot at LEAST twenty years ago.
“legislators allowed previously convicted inmates to keep the firing-squad option out of fear that changing the execution method would create a new avenue of appeal.”
Smart people.
“DeLand planned three executions for the state of Utah, including one for Gardner in the 1990s that was delayed by a court order two days before the scheduled date.”
Pity the victims didn’t get a court order to prevent their deaths.
“The guns are handed out randomly to the officers. One will be loaded with a blank, so no one will know who fired the fatal shot. By law, the identities of those selected for the firing squad remain secret.”
Good idea, prevents the one police officer with the actual bullets from being singled out and provides a mental safety valve.
sued = used.
Doh!
There is a very famous essay by the French existentialist author of the 30’s and forties—Albert Camus— where he presents forth the rationale for having public executions...that is, if the death penalty is to be a deterrant, than all, including children should be shown the dire consequences.
I agree...if we “hide” our executions we are hypocritical about the death penalty.
The Bishop need to tensd to his flock and let this murderous SOB render unto Caesar what caesar has coming to him.
What the chances of having a raffle to pick who get to shoot at this POS.? Let’s use shotguns at 10 feet.
I’ll bring the popcorn and a couple of chairs.
I take it you have never shot a deer and have it drop straight down and not move again? Given the choice between electrocution and firing squad,,, I'd take the bullet.
We all know that sex and going to the toilet goes on behind closed doors. There is nothing wrong with these activities, but it doesn’t mean they have to be done in public for all to see, especially children...
I’ll pass on your chair.
“The guns are handed out randomly to the officers. One will be loaded with a blank, so no one will know who fired the fatal shot. By law, the identities of those selected for the firing squad remain secret.”
Sounds good in theory, but I am fairly certain the person with the blank will notice a reduced recoil when he fires.
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