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Inmates set for execution in Oklahoma seek firing squad over potentially painful alternative
AP ^ | 1/11/22 | Sean Murphy

Posted on 01/11/2022 10:27:11 AM PST by MAGA2017

OKLAHOMA CITY — Two Oklahoma death row inmates facing executions in the coming months offered firing squad as a less problematic alternative to the state's three-drug lethal injection, one of their attorneys told a federal judge on Monday.

The two inmates — Donald Grant and Gilbert Postelle — want U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot to grant them a temporary injunction that would delay their upcoming executions until a trial can be held over whether Oklahoma's three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional. A trial is set to begin before Friot on Feb. 28, but Grant is scheduled to be put to death on Jan. 27, while Postelle is set for execution on Feb. 17.

“While it may be gruesome to look at, we all agree it will be quicker," attorney Jim Stronski told Friot after a day-long hearing in Oklahoma City..

Among the experts who testified was Dr. James Williams, an emergency medicine specialist from Texas who has more than 40,000 hours of emergency room experience and who has extensively studied the use of firing squads.

Williams, himself the victim of a gunshot wound to the chest area, testified that a firing squad involving shots from at least four high-powered rifles to the “cardiac bundle" of the heart would be so quick that an inmate wouldn't feel pain. He also said that unlike lethal injection, there is an extremely low likelihood that the execution would be botched.

(Excerpt) Read more at tulsaworld.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: execution; inmates; oklahoma
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To: taxcontrol; Little Ray

Helium asphyxiation makes for much funnier last words.


41 posted on 01/11/2022 11:32:27 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: MAGA2017
Their victims didn't get to choose less painful way to die.

F 'em. Smoke 'em.

42 posted on 01/11/2022 11:36:47 AM PST by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: MAGA2017

Or try the old time method:
Man writes a suicide letter to his family and walks out, unarmed at night, through Detroit.


43 posted on 01/11/2022 11:46:40 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: tet68

Yep. All you feel is a tingle, then death.


44 posted on 01/11/2022 12:05:01 PM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: MAGA2017

How painful was it for the people they murdered?


45 posted on 01/11/2022 12:08:05 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: MAGA2017

Give them what they want immediately with a bullet between the eyes if they agree to drop their appeal.


46 posted on 01/11/2022 12:20:29 PM PST by chuckee
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To: tet68

I like the way you think!

CC


47 posted on 01/11/2022 12:38:30 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Bob434

Versed is a wonderful amnesia drug.


48 posted on 01/11/2022 12:57:16 PM PST by Glennb51
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To: Glennb51

haven’t heard of that one-


49 posted on 01/11/2022 1:08:24 PM PST by Bob434
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To: MAGA2017

Why they don’t use CO, Carbon Monoxide, is beyond me. Painless, very fast, can’t screw it up. Mask or chamber, 10 breaths and you’re dead.


50 posted on 01/11/2022 1:10:39 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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To: Bob434

It is usually administered during a procedure when the patient is a “twilight sleep” form of anesthesia. This way you don’t remember the conversation of the medical team.

Some special ops units also receive it.


51 posted on 01/11/2022 1:23:01 PM PST by Glennb51
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To: dfwgator
One of the great endings in movie history and history itself.


52 posted on 01/11/2022 1:41:09 PM PST by xp38
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To: Glennb51

ive had some kind of amnesia drug- but dont’ remember the name- mighta been that one- or another form- but i sure didnt’ remember what was done or said when they gave it to me-


53 posted on 01/11/2022 2:23:31 PM PST by Bob434
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To: MAGA2017
...the state's three-drug lethal injection...

Also known as 'boosters'.

54 posted on 01/11/2022 3:58:09 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: jmacusa

Don’t be a dumbass like I was (waited 5 years before I got another DOG), go down to the local pound and find yourself another good boy or girl!

They need a good home and you need a BRAVE, LOYAL, TRUSTWORTHY companion to walk or ride the trails with!


55 posted on 01/11/2022 6:07:47 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: MAGA2017

Hanging would be better.................


56 posted on 01/11/2022 6:10:53 PM PST by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: proust

Sheet...get a nice cigar!!


57 posted on 01/11/2022 6:12:07 PM PST by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: 5th MEB

I know my FRiend I know. Believe me I wish I could. But my age, and over all health is not the best and I couldn’t be there all the time for what it takes to care for our canine friends.

It breaks my heart if I think about but thanks so much for your kind encouragement. You’re a good man, you’re a good Marine.


58 posted on 01/11/2022 10:16:32 PM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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