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Mississippi could debate firing squad as execution method
Associated Press ^ | Jan 27, 2016 7:18 PM EST | Emily Wagster Pettus

Posted on 01/27/2016 4:32:47 PM PST by Olog-hai

Mississippi's attorney general said Wednesday that he will ask lawmakers to approve the firing squad, electrocution or nitrogen gas as alternate methods of execution in case the state is prevented from giving lethal injections.

States are struggling to obtain execution drugs since European pharmaceutical companies began blocking the use of their products for lethal injections. Executions are on hold in Mississippi because the state's supply of lethal-injection drugs expired. In October, Ohio delayed executions for a year while it searches for the drugs. ...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; eussr; firingsquad; lethalinjection
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To: Olog-hai

I cant imagine why this is so hard. Take them to the local animal shelter to put them down.

If it’s humane enough for innocent animals it should be humane enough for murders.


21 posted on 01/27/2016 5:45:16 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: Olog-hai

Put it on prime time!

When I was in Thailand, I witnessed a public firing squad execution of five men and women, convicted of Communist uprisings, by the use of exhausting full magazines of M16s.

Their remains and the platform was then put to the torch.

I think it would work better than ‘Scared Straight’.


22 posted on 01/27/2016 5:59:12 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Olog-hai

bkmrk


23 posted on 01/27/2016 6:12:12 PM PST by duffee (CRUZ 2016)
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To: sparklite2

This used to happen to scuba divers in the old days when using steel tanks. Filling a tank with air (and a little moisture) to 2,000 psi, then storing it for some time. Then taking the tank on a dive with the pressure only 1,600 psi, will result in blackout and death with no physical warning. The oxygen is still in the tank as iron oxide.

Thank goodness for aluminum tanks.


24 posted on 01/27/2016 7:28:31 PM PST by lagrange point1 (Space is no longer the final frontier)
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To: Olog-hai

Great idea, but if you really want to bring the crime rate down, use BB guns and as many rounds as it takes.


25 posted on 01/27/2016 7:35:22 PM PST by inpajamas (Texas Akbar!!!!!!!)
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To: .45 Long Colt; paintriot; Lil Flower; Malichi; WXRGina; duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; mstar; ...

Six gun ping


26 posted on 01/27/2016 9:40:00 PM PST by WKB
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas

” Freezing sounds right horrible.”

The first part, the shivering, is bad. Once that stops, you just get sleepy. We had war games in Korea, just above freezing, but raining. Leaky ponchos left us all soaked. Lots of guys laying down in the mud and starting to doze off. Got them up and running up & down the hill to warm up. Then we got parked in one spot, awaiting the trucks. Cold front passed and temp dropped. Even though I knew what hypothermia is, I was ready to doze off after the shivering stopped.


27 posted on 01/28/2016 6:27:11 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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