Posted on 02/23/2025 11:31:18 AM PST by dynachrome
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Don’t forget many around here have war experience.
They have overcome that fear
Honest question
Is pulling the trigger harder than flipping the switch?
Opening the gas valve?
Injecting the cocktail?
Sweet...I’m available I’ll bring my own gear.
And that is why “seasoned” troops are preferred.
I was privileged to serve with a young man who would NOT chamber a round.
He would do anything asked but return fire.
A black Baptist from deep in the hills of the Carolinas.
He was taught it is better to die than take a life.
Respected and well-liked.
He was soft-spoken but his actions spoke loudly.
After some time the CO assigned him to permanent KP.
And this was a popular move among the men.
A man of true HONOR.
Very.
FWIW, he was 43.
You’re right
Ole Miss poli sci degree with Spanish and finance minors has its limits
It was not MIT
it was weed bourbon sorority girls and a few hippie chicks
And Memphis when it was cool and duck hunting….great duck hunting
But math not so much obviously lol
Thanks for the correction
😃
He’s na na na Batman.
I believe only one person will have live ammo in their rifle and nobody will know who that is
Research “Albert Pierrepoint”, who was the Queen’s official executioner in the UK for 20+ years. He was the executioner of something like 300 Nazi war criminals after WWII. He perfected the art of hanging a condemned prisoner (so that the condemned would die within 4 seconds of reaching the end of his/her rope.
Hanging used to be mandatory in the UK for a person convicted of murder. Each of the major UK prisons (such as Pentonville and Wandsworth, and even the women’s prison on Holloway Road (near Arsenal’s soccer stadium) had their own “execution shed” which contained a gallows. Executions took place quickly; in the case of Ruth Ellis, the last female to be hanged (in 1955), she met her end 17 days after she was convicted of the murder of her lover (the defense of “battered woman” wasn’t available to her).
I’ve thought about this subject long and hard. Traditional Catholic theology states that executions of criminals are not sinful acts, as the state is the legitimate avenger of crime. Nevertheless, I would not have the courage to be the executioner, as I would be haunted by that forever.
You mentioned “gas valve”. That is not how the gas chamber worked. The condemned was strapped into a chair in a metal and glass chamber which was hermetically sealed by a guard (the chamber in San Quentin prison in California actually had two chairs). A bucket of sulfuric acid was on the floor in the chamber, which was positioned next to a ramp which permitted egg-shaped pellets of either hydrogen cyanide or potassium chloride to be rolled down and into the bucket, causing the production of lethal gas (it was reported that there was an aroma of peaches when this happened). The introduction of the “eggs” was done by three persons on the outside, one of whom unknowingly had a “dummy” lever or toggle, so none of them actually knew who commenced the fatal action.
As I was born in the Bay Area in 1955, San Quentin was frequently discussed in my home. At the time, the most famous inmate there was a man named Caryl Chessman, who turned out to be one of, if not the first, persons to use the legal system to delay his execution for a long time. He actually did not kill anyone, but he was convicted of kidnapping, which in those days was a capital crime in California (probably dating back to the Vigilante days). He was convicted in 1948 but staved off the chamber until 1960. My mother reminded me constantly of him and what a horrible person he was.
Joking aside, I thought it was actually the opposite. Meaning everybody had live ammo with the exception of one person who has a blank
,,, one inch of rope beyond the noose for every ten pounds of weight - and the rope can be used over and over.
Gravity is free.
Math major, here.
Almost missed the birthday being later in the year.
Old enough to know better.
My point is and will remain. No matter the method. Another human is required.
LOL!!
In his case the shooting should start with the ankles and wrists, followed by the knees and shoulders, then the coup d’ grace.
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