Sitting?
"Lets do it!"
oh please run it live on TV
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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.
“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.
I’ll bring the popcorn and a couple of chairs.
Guess he wants to go out with a bang.
I think this is very interesting to approach from a psychological perspective. Is it just the thought of going out quickly? Or maybe he just thinks that this sounds “cooler” than the other options?