Posted on 04/23/2022 3:34:35 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — It’s unknown how long a stay will hold off the execution of Richard Bernard Moore — South Carolina’s first-ever inmate to be put to death by a firing squad — as his attorneys pursue legal challenges.
But the issuance of Moore’s death warrant, initially planned to be carried out April 29, has renewed interest in how a state puts in motion its plans to shoot an inmate to death.
HOW IS THE EXECUTION CARRIED OUT?
The agency spent $53,600 in state funding on renovations, including the installation of bullet-resistant glass between the death chamber and witnesses, as well as a metal chair into which the inmate will be strapped. They also cut into the brick wall of the chamber to make an aperture through which the three shooters — all volunteer employees from the Corrections Department — will thread their weapons, all loaded with live ammunition.
The aperture is 15 feet from the condemned, situated in a corner of the room, according to a memo released last month by the prisons agency. While the inmate will be visible to witnesses, officials said that the shooters and their weapons will not.
The electric chair, which officials say cannot be removed from the chamber, will be covered in its spot between the glass wall and the firing squad chair.
After an opportunity to make a final statement, the inmate will be strapped into the chair and a hood placed over his head. An execution team member will place a “small aim point” over the inmate’s heart.
After the warden reads the execution order, officials said the team will fire. The agency has not specified what caliber rifles the volunteer shooters will use, nor details of the “certain qualifications” they will be required to have met.
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Ma Deuce. Quick an easy. Inmates can clean-up
“The agency spent $53,600 in state funding on renovations”
Why don’t they sell tickets? The ticket-buyers can watch via CCTV to prevent any legal snafus.
I’m curious...
Why not a headshot to put the lights out quickly.
I think it would be more appropriate to blindfold the shooters and give them 20 round mags.
Ma Duece, and a 3/4 inch hose. Easy peasy.
Traditionally one shooter had a blank round, but none knew which one had it. That way none ever knew if they shot a fatal shot.
Has got to be better for the condemned man than the electric chair.
Messier.
Tangentially related, I recall the deathbed words of 19th century Spanish General Narváez, “I don’t need to forgive my enemies — I have had them all shot.”
Ready, Aim, Fire.
Not a whole lot to it.
They’d probably get the vapors if the condemned asked for a cigarette.
I would think they should do both because quite a few people have lived through head shots. Might be a hunk of broccoli afterwards but still alive.
I would think a garage and running vehicle would be as good as anything as far as being humane. Gas chamber is too Hitleresque.
Of course there’s the whole eye for an eye thing so maybe it depends on what they did.
Hanging is pretty efficient if done right. Cheap too.
Guillotine? Dunno. Lay there looking at that blade and then hear it coming down?
Laser Guillotine? Silent and instant and could come from the back so they wouldn’t see it coming. I guess the severing of the head is more visually gruesome to everyone still left with a head though.
It’s cheaper, cleaner, and easier to just get word out that the condemned has dirt on the Clintons.
About time! 23 years in fact.
Sheesh, when he’s dead, the bullets effectively will have traveled 15 feet in 23 years.
That’s two-one-hundred-millionths of a foot per second, or a little more than a fifth of a millionth of an inch every second.
I have a better way. Set him in the chair and place a steel rod against his chest next to his heart. Then slowly push the rod forward a fifth of a millionth of an inch every second. You’d have to force feed him a bowl of s*** every day, or he’d starve to death before the rod penetrated his heart and killed him. But pain, he deserves.
But this way, everyone’s happy... people who wanted justice, and scumbag libs who wanted to postpone the execution as long as possible... LOL
Volunteer employees from the correctional facility?
They should have held a lottery nationwide $20 a ticket with proceeds going to a victims fund.
For your SC ping list..
Or they could go Pinochet and use a helicopter over a parking lot.
Are you crazy? Cigarettes can kill . . and cause lung cancer. The state doesn’t want that kind of medical liability of an inmate in their custody.
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