To: Second Amendment First
"No man who has ever lived on this earth could survive four rounds from a .30-30 rifle to the chest," DeLand said. Nothing like tempting Fate.
12 posted on
06/17/2010 9:55:45 AM PDT by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: theDentist
Modern firing squad executions in the U.S. have gone smoothly, but it was not unusual in the past for several rounds to strike the prisoner without killing him. In such cases, a final shot was fired at close range to put the inmate out of his misery.
18 posted on
06/17/2010 9:59:12 AM PDT by
Second Amendment First
("Stripping motivated people of their dignity and rubbing their noses in it is a very bad idea.")
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