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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Rope, it’s re-usable and could be organic also!
Do we need our own weapons and ammo?..................
Crucifixion? Good! Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each. Next.
Biodegradable!..................
Now that’s what I like to hear from murderers! And put in an Express lane too.!
You don’t want a quick, clean, instantaneous death. You want one that can be ‘botched’ and ugly so you can make the point that executions are barbaric and unworthy of an enlightened progressive society.
The Chinese don’t waste four bullets when one will do.
I hope I get a cigarette when it’s my turn.
I would make the same choice were I in their situation.
Get it over with. No Drawing & Quartering please.
Uh, anyone here had a surgery under general anesthesia? Did it hurt when they knocked you out? I get to 98 and “poof” out. Then I (so far) wake up in recovery. Someone could end my in the OR and I wouldn’t have had a clue.
Nailed it. Besides, there’s no such thing as a “botched” execution in which the criminal died.
A case if beer, two syringes, catering, and a few grams of fentanyl, will do the trick. No help needed.
I still think the convicted should get some LSD and the
executioners should all come in wearing lifelike masks
of their victims, maybe poke them with pitchforks while
laughing hysterically.
I had to put my Cocker of 15 yrs down a year ago. While sad, he had bacon and cheese wizz up to the end, and suffered no pain. First injection put him to sleep, second stopped his heart. Don't know why they have so much trouble with humans.
Government shouldn’t kill people.
They get it wrong too often. Sometimes it’s just political. Like Jan 6th folks rotting in jail. Or Ashli . . . you remember her name, right?
Sometimes they put entire groups into the category of “Otherness”. Sometimes put em on railcars off to camps and gas ‘em. Sometimes deny them Police protection during riots. Soemtimes just deny them lots of basic stuff like medical care because they ain’t got the ChiComWuHuFlu Kill Shot.
POS is Guilty?
Give the family, and other concerned folks, machetes, axes and blow torches.
Let nature take it’s course.
Then feed em to the hogs.
“Shoot straight, you bastards, don’t make a mess of it!”
He had bacon and cheese wizz up to the end,
Thats the way i want to go.
I heard that cigarettes are not good for you,
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