A last cigarette still included?
Posted on 03/24/2015 2:45:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Gov. Gary Herbert signed into law Monday a bill to make firing squads the state's back-up method of execution — used whenever the state is unable to obtain drugs needed to perform lethal injections.
The Republican executive signed the firing-squad bill despite international attention on the state as it becomes alone in allowing that method of execution. (Oklahoma authorizes execution by firing squad only if lethal injection and electrocution are found unconstitutional, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.)
Numerous groups called for a veto, but Herbert signaled last week that he was leaning toward signing it.
"Those who voiced opposition to this bill are primarily arguing against capital punishment in general and that decision has already been made in our state," Marty Carpenter, spokesman for Herbert, said Monday. Utah is one of 32 states with the death penalty.
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If it was good enough for Gary...
Why it is so hard to kill someone? put them in a garage with a car running and come back in an hour.
Humane and easy.
Give ‘em a beer and an iPod.
RE: Why it is so hard to kill someone? put them in a garage with a car running and come back in an hour.
Humane and easy.
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Yes, put them to sleep first.
From seeing some WWII clips of firing squad executions (not the Chinese back-of-the-head method), were I to be executed, I think I would prefer firing squad over the electric chair.
NOW USE IT!!!
The Gary Gilmore Memorial Bill
“... used whenever the state is unable to obtain drugs needed to perform lethal injections.”
Love it. It sounds like extortion, but the preferable kind.
Cigar, Cigarette, Tiperillo?
The firing squad was used in Utah in 2010:
Execution By Firing Squad Will Be First In 14 Years [Mormon - Open]
The firing squad in Utah as long been linked to the Mormon doctrine of blood atonement:
Gardner's date with firing squad revives talk of Mormon blood atonement
It would be so much easier to make the convicts cell his death chamber. It is set up so it is sealed. When they decide to kill the deserving SOB, they replace the oxygen with nitrogen. He can go to sleep at night and just never wake up.
I don’t see why a firing squad is any less humane than an injection, and it sure is a lot cheaper.
Probably the most humane, efficient and inexpensive method of capital punishment.
Yes!!
Yes, as long as they read the warning label and are fully aware of the risk. :)
In the Gulags, the Soviets would march a person sentenced to death back and forth to his interrogation cell night after night after night, for months or years with a guard right behind them the entire time. One night, as they passed a certain passageway with stairs, the guard would pull out a pistol and shoot the guy in the back of the head and his body would fall down an enormously long flight of stairs to be picked up by other zecks.
It seems to me both oddly humane and monstrously inhumane at the same time. The prisoners all knew what that hallway was, and for days or months, they would probably brace themselves every time they passed it. Kind of like being marched in front of a firing squad day after day.
But the way people are, after a while, you apparently either forget or don’t care anymore, and you never see it coming.
They were brutal, those Soviets.
GIT-ER DONE!!, GOV.
Where did you hide the body? ;)
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