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.
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Helium asphyxiation makes for much funnier last words.
F 'em. Smoke 'em.
Or try the old time method:
Man writes a suicide letter to his family and walks out, unarmed at night, through Detroit.
Yep. All you feel is a tingle, then death.
How painful was it for the people they murdered?
Give them what they want immediately with a bullet between the eyes if they agree to drop their appeal.
I like the way you think!
CC
Versed is a wonderful amnesia drug.
haven’t heard of that one-
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.
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.
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-
Also known as 'boosters'.
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!
Hanging would be better.................
Sheet...get a nice cigar!!
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.
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