Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Firing-squad executions get the greenlight in South Carolina
The Associated Press ^ | March 18, 2022 | By MEG KINNARD

Posted on 03/18/2022 3:28:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 last
To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is stupid. Everyone knows it will get struck down by the courts for whatever stupid liberal reasons they can come up with. These types of controversies are just kept up by the political class to keep everyone riled up about something that is of no real consequence.

If you want to have executions, it is so brain dead simple to set up that even a liberal could do it.
1. Build an airtight enclosure.
2. Wheel the condemned into the enclosure strapped down on a gurney.
3. Pump the enclosure with pure nitrogen. Put oxygen sensors both inside and outside of the enclosure.
4. Wait 15 minutes.
5. Vent the enclosure to the roof of whatever building you are in while cycling in ambient air.

This is no-muss no-fuss execution. The condemned won’t even know he’s dead when he passes. 78% of every breath you take is nitrogen. There are no unusual chemicals, poisons, or anything else to get people riled up over. No doctors must violate their hippocratic oaths.

Every industry that deals with nitrogen in any volume understands the safety requirements you have to put in place so that people do not enter a pure nitrogen atmosphere. A person in such a situation will simply collapse and die without warning because nitrogen saturation does not trigger an asphyxiation response in the body.

Some will doubtless complain that the condemned will not suffer, and while that is true, it is also true that he will definitely be quite and fully dead, which I figure is the point of the exercise.

Using anything else is just stupidity. You don’t even have to do anything special to the room/enclosure afterwards, because the only thing that was in the room was normal air. Just be sure to check the oxygen sensors before you walk in.


41 posted on 03/18/2022 7:50:40 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Does so

“Least painful” needs a sliding scale considering the nature of the crime.

IMO the execution should match the crime.

For instance, a victim is stabbed 78 times. Each stab wound should be mapped out and programmed into a computer so a robot can precisely stab the perp. Same for gun shots, blunt force trauma, etc.


42 posted on 03/18/2022 8:31:19 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: DeplorablePaul; upchuck
Wow, I'm definitely *not* in Connecticut anymore!

Thanks for the ping, upchuck.

43 posted on 03/18/2022 9:31:36 PM PDT by nutmeg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: DIRTYSECRET

“The victims family members should be allowed in the firing squad.”

The execution site should be a prison’s exercise yard. (To help reduce recidivism).


44 posted on 03/19/2022 1:33:19 AM PDT by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes War Finds YOU!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: nutmeg

You’re welcome.


45 posted on 03/19/2022 9:17:36 AM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: bigbob

+1


46 posted on 03/20/2022 4:20:32 PM PDT by mbj
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: gnarledmaw
"A firing squad is a proper soldiers death."

A firing squad is too good for convicted traitors (civilian or military), who should be publicly hanged, and their carcasses left to rot off the noose.

47 posted on 03/26/2023 5:03:48 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson