Posted on 02/26/2023 3:55:48 PM PST by algore
Accused Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger could face a firing squad if he is found guilty for the quadruple homicide of four college students last year.
Lawyers are believed to be gearing up for the possibility of a death penalty trial for the 28-year-old criminal justice major - who remains the only suspect
Prosecutors haven't yet indicated whether they intend to pursue the death penalty for Kohberger, although it seems likely they will, given the gravity of his alleged crimes.
Rep. Bruce Skaug has introduced a bill that would once again allow for execution by firing squad in the state, as well as lethal injection.
Skaug's bill states that the Idaho Department of Corrections must determine whether execution by lethal injection is an available method no later than five days after a death warrant is issued.
If the method is not available, the IDOC may elect to use a firing squad.
The bill does not specify how many or what type of firearms should be used in the execution
Skaug said he believed the option is more humane than lethal injection, with recent instances of the shot resulting in agonizing pain for doomed inmates.
And, he pointed out to the Idaho Capital Sun, other states like Utah have brought back the use of a firing squad in recent years due to their inability to get the lethal injection chemicals.
A public hearing on the bill will now be held in the Idaho House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee, which Skaug chairs.
Death by firing squad was legal in Idaho from 1982 through 2009, when the Legislature removed it as an option. That left lethal injection as the only legal form of execution in the state.
But acquiring the chemicals used in lethal injection has become increasingly difficult.
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(if he is found guilty)
bkmk
Maybe do a few practice sessions with blanks with him before using real bullets.
If guilty I hope they use .22 shorts.
I have a certain attraction to the firing squad as the preferred means of civil executions.
make the first shot a groin shot. A second later a leg shot. A second later an arm shot. Next, another groin shot. The final two shots in each eye.
Need to do what he Japanese do. Never tell them the day that they die.
Too good for him.
Legally, this guy is a moron.
He deliberately drove five miles from a Liberal no death penalty state - Washington - to murder four people in a moderately Conservative state - Idaho - that will absolutely find him guilty and execute him.
Maybe they should use pellet guns and keep shooting until he bleeds to death?
I rather prefer death by a thousand small cuts. Slow and painful.
He killed victims with knife.
True, but an Idaho jury is unlikely to find that as a valid excuse.
Unconstitutional. If convicted he will recieve the punishment mandated by the laws in force when the crime was committed.
Even if Idaho passes a law allowing firing squad he would not be in line to be executed that way.
I am not a lawyer or do I pretend to be but this seems to a ex post factor law.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/legal/ex%20post%20facto%20law
His case would go against the notion of murderers coming from socially and economically deprived populations. Same with that Murdaugh(sp?) guy in South Carolina.
Either way ...the death penalty, if prescribed, should be quick and efficient if he is proven guilty of those heinous murders. Innocent life is valuable.
I volunteer. Can I use my own rifle?
Sell $5 raffle tickets to the public. The State controls the ammo, so they could play blank round roulette to give folks an out on a guilty conscience.
Jeez..a whiff of a fetanyl, or carfentanyl powder would have him gone, probably with a smile on his face.
Let’s do this!
Such concern for the suffering of the killer. What about the agonizing pain his victims felt?
I was once told that the reason revolvers commonly had six rounds was so that you could put one in each knee, one in each elbow and one in the groin.
24 hours later you could put one in the head
Personally I’d hang him 2 feet above a pen full of wild boars and let them eat him alive.
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