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To: LibWhacker; shibumi

Wasn’t treason once punished by firing squad?

Irony is so ironic.


4 posted on 12/28/2012 10:33:43 PM PST by Salamander (Never go to bed mad. Stay up all night plotting revenge.)
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To: Salamander

Will there be a lottery to be one of the ones doing the shooting?


9 posted on 12/28/2012 10:48:22 PM PST by Jayster
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To: Salamander

Usually hanging was the punishment for treason in the USA, which IINM goes back to a Biblical punishment that denoted someone cursed by God. I can’t find any examples of execution by firing squad for treason, in the USA that is.


10 posted on 12/28/2012 10:49:04 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Salamander
"Wasn’t treason once punished by firing squad? Irony is so ironic."

Pursuant to her wishes to outlaw military rifles, her sentence will have to be carried out with the "Death by a Thousand BB Guns."
17 posted on 12/28/2012 11:37:07 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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