[The Shootist]

Hanging is a traitors' death.

Firing Squad is an "honorable" death.

At least that has been the "traditional" view of such things.

[redhead]

"Hanging is a traitors' death. Firing Squad is an "honorable" death. At least that has been the "traditional" view of such things."

I believe Utah's firing-squad option has to do with the "blood atonement" aspect of the Mormon faith, probably harking back to the admonition in the Bible: "If any shed man's, blood, by man shall his be shed," or words to that effect.

[omega4412]

As in the chorus to "Kevin Barry" -

"Shoot me like an Irish soldier
Do not hang me like a dog..."

And the Israelis executed Eichmann by hanging.