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The Trump administration is trying to bring back firing squads and electrocutions for some federal executions
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Posted on 11/26/2020 2:07:43 PM PST by MNDude

The Trump administration is rushing to make a number of federal regulatory changes before President-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20, ProPublica reported on Wednesday. One of those changes, proposed by the Department of Justice, would allow some federal death-row inmates to be executed by means other than lethal injection. Many states allow for electrocution or a firing squad if lethal injection is not available or if another method is preferred by the prisoner.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; electricchair; firingsquad; lethalinjection; news
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To: MNDude

How about torture until death for all violent offenders getting the death penalty?

Torture and murder was more than fine for an innocent, so it’s far more than fine for their own death.

It can’t be “cruel and unusual” if they did it to an innocent.


21 posted on 11/26/2020 2:23:15 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: MNDude

The firing squad gets my vote if it will provide for citizen volunteer participation, something that is not available in the other execution methods.


22 posted on 11/26/2020 2:23:26 PM PST by iontheball
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To: Clutch Martin

too kind.
the choice(s) should be up to the families of their victims.
filmed it for the net. just like terrorists.


23 posted on 11/26/2020 2:25:20 PM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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To: MNDude

thanks

so long as the definitions and proof are proper,
i agree


24 posted on 11/26/2020 2:25:20 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: MNDude
I'm sure our history is sprinkled with tragic accidental executions, but we're human, and I believe if we approach jury duty as godly minded people, we will make correct choices.

Having said that, if an obvious crime has been committed, and the decision is the death penalty, there is no reason to delay that act with endless appeals that generally go nowhere.

25 posted on 11/26/2020 2:26:36 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ..... I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: MNDude

~Easy

26 posted on 11/26/2020 2:27:01 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see #KAG)
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To: plain talk

Only needs a smiley face.


27 posted on 11/26/2020 2:27:09 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Clutch Martin

You’re probably right, what with the price of ammunition these days...


28 posted on 11/26/2020 2:27:31 PM PST by Senormechanico
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To: Clutch Martin

Helium asphyxiation works just as well as nitrogen, and makes for much funnier last words.


29 posted on 11/26/2020 2:28:20 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: MNDude

Let’s do it.


30 posted on 11/26/2020 2:30:10 PM PST by Luke21 (Elections you say? We get them next election? )
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To: MNDude

I am assuming that a federal regulation instituted by Trump could be un-instituted by the next administration.


31 posted on 11/26/2020 2:40:58 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

That would be a nice touch. They say Yellow Mama was constructed by an inmate and painted it with readily available “yellow line” street paint to reduce costs.


32 posted on 11/26/2020 2:44:22 PM PST by plain talk
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To: madison10

Plenty of murderers in prison; they can do the job.


33 posted on 11/26/2020 2:50:28 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: MNDude

Rope is cheap, effective and great public spectacle.


34 posted on 11/26/2020 2:50:29 PM PST by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: MNDude

Firing squads please for treason and coup plotters.


35 posted on 11/26/2020 2:50:50 PM PST by Trumplican
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To: MNDude

The first guy executed after the fed ban on executions in the ‘70s was a murderer named Gary Gilmore. He specifically requested to die by firing squad, and his request was granted.


36 posted on 11/26/2020 2:58:55 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: madison10

How is bleeding out in pain more humane?


37 posted on 11/26/2020 2:59:50 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Cobra64

Aimed correctly it is instantaneous.


38 posted on 11/26/2020 3:03:34 PM PST by madison10
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To: MNDude

This is headlined so as to scare us. Have you ever noted that the left always telescopes what they are planning to do? Take a deep breath patriots.


39 posted on 11/26/2020 3:04:02 PM PST by WVNan
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To: MNDude

Bring back the French “National Razor”.
https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-guillotine


40 posted on 11/26/2020 3:07:53 PM PST by matthew fuller (No more Fox News- AKA SOROS/FOX As The World Turns.....)
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