Posted on 02/13/2015 9:19:24 PM PST by Olog-hai
A hotly contested proposal that resurrects Utah’s use of firing squads to carry out executions narrowly passed a key vote Friday in the state’s Legislature after three missing lawmakers were summoned to break a tie vote.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted 39-34 Friday morning to approve the measure, sending it to an uncertain fate in the state’s GOP-controlled Senate. Leaders in that chamber have thus far declined to say if they’ll support it, and Utah’s Republican Gov. Gary Herbert won’t say if he’ll sign it. […]
(Rep. Paul) Ray argues that a team of trained marksmen is faster and more humane than the drawn-out deaths that have occurred in botched lethal injections. His bill would call for a firing squad if Utah cannot get lethal injection drugs 30 days before an execution. …
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Shades of Gary Gilmore!
What do you want on your tombstone?
As far as I think, that’s the most humane.
Nitrogen asphyxiation is the solution. It’s painless and works every time. Seal the condemned in a room and pump it full of nitrogen. Wait 15 minutes.
Dead every time. No pharmaceutical products required, just industrial nitrogen.
L
“Shades of Gary Gilmore!”
Who is Gary Gilmore?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gilmore
Gary Mark Gilmore (December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American criminal who gained international notoriety for demanding the execution of his death sentence for two murders he committed in Utah. After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new series of death penalty statutes in the 1976 decision Gregg v. Georgia, he became the first person executed in the United States in ten years.[1] These new statutes avoided the problems under the 1972 decision in Furman v. Georgia that had led earlier death penalty statutes to be deemed as “cruel and unusual”, and therefore unconstitutional , resulting in all states being ordered to commute death sentences to life imprisonment. Gilmore was executed by firing squad in 1977.[2]
Gilmore was executed on January 17, 1977, at 8:07 a.m. by firing squad at Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah. The night before, Gilmore had requested an all-night gathering of friends and family at the prison mess hall. On the evening before his execution, he was served a last meal of steak, potatoes, milk and coffee but consumed only the milk and coffee. His uncle, Vern Damico, who attended the gathering, later claimed to have smuggled in three small, 50ml Jack Daniel’s whiskey bottles which Gilmore supposedly consumed.
He was then taken to an abandoned cannery behind the prison, which served as its death house. He was strapped to a chair, with a wall of sandbags placed behind him to trap the bullets. Five gunmen, local police officers, stood concealed behind a curtain with five small holes, through which they aimed their rifles. When asked for any last words, Gilmore simply replied, “Let’s do it.”[8] Rev. Thomas Meersman, the Roman Catholic prison chaplain, administered the last rites to Gilmore. After the prison physician cloaked him in a black hood, Gilmore uttered his last words to Father Meersman: “Dominus vobiscum” (Latin, translation: “The Lord be with you.”) Meersman replied, “Et cum spiritu tuo” (”And with your spirit.”)[9]
Gilmore had requested that his organs be donated for transplant purposes. Within hours of the execution, two people received his corneas. His body was then sent for autopsy and was cremated later that day. The following day, his ashes were scattered from an airplane over Spanish Fork, Utah.[10]
As Gilmore was the first person in the United States executed since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, his story had immense cultural resonance at the time, and continues to influence the works of writers, artists and even advertisers to this day.
It would put the anti-death penalty for the deserving crowd on notice that their stupid little games or trying to block execution drugs or less than perfect insertion of a needle into a vein are over. They might change the method, but not the penalty.
Death by musketry.
Why bother filling the room with nitrogen? Way too much trouble. Just strap him to a chair, place a sealed mask over his face and turn on the nitrogen.
“It’s painless and works every time.”
I always am skeptical of statements that say (1) how terribly painful a particular way to die is and (2) how painless another way is. Noone but One who has died by any method of execution has come back. And He didn’t dwell on that subject.
Heck, why not use nitrious oxide. It would be the same effect but more pleasant. Most that get the DP don’t deserve to have a horrible death.
Indeed. Have three methods ready to go. Chemical, bullets, nitrogen, and plain old hemp rope. Let the libs fight that.
L
Nitrogen asphyxia is a common industrial accident. The victims don’t even know their dying until its too late.
L
Did their victims deserve horrible deaths?
It depends on the situation. For ‘lesser’ ones, I’d say nitrous. For worse, nitrogen should be enough.
Carbon monoxide is completely painless. It bonds with red blood cells like CO2 does, but does not unbond. You just get sleepy.
That would be my preference to die if I was so sentenced.
Have three methods ready to go. Chemical, bullets, nitrogen, and plain old hemp rope. Four methods. And a fanatical devotion to the Pope. Five methods - we have these five methods.
LOL. Indeed.
H2S is quicker, but has handling problems. (Inhale 1000 ppm and you’re done—DRT without prompt resuscitative measures, and those might not work.)
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