Execution By Firing Squad Will Be First In 14 Years [Mormon - Open]

NPR ^ | June 17, 2010 | Jenny Brundin

[23 Everest]

Thirty-five states allow the death penalty, but death by firing squad remains an option only in Utah... Utah historian Will Bagley says the reason this method of execution exists is rooted in Utah's history as a Mormon sanctuary. “I think we need to be honest about it. We have the last firing squads in the country as a legacy of Mormon theology,” Bagley says
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I think Oklahoma has firing squads too!

[Vendome]

Hand everyone a shotgun and use Saboted slugs.

That will end him quickly and humanely.

[reaganaut]

Execution by firing squads is allowable in Utah but also in Oklahoma and Idaho.

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Well, yes and no...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_firing_squad#Firing_squads_in_the_United_States

On April 1, 2009,[28] a bill to eliminate firing squad as a method of execution in Idaho was enacted, and took effect July 1, 2009. As of 2010, Oklahoma is the only other state in which execution by firing squad is legally available, though as a backup method only, in case both lethal injection — the state’s primary method of execution — and electrocution are regarded unconstitutional. [27]

[BlueMoose]

Are you serious? No

This dirt bag knows nothing of or cares about the LDS faith. on.

[reaganaut]

Only if the other methods are deemed unconstitutional.

See post #43

[23 Everest]

We are arguing against your atheist beliefs. How is that not a discussion on religion?

[reaganaut]

This dirt bag knows nothing of or cares about the LDS faith.

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Not true, he grew up LDS and wanted to be re-baptized but SLC leadership would not grant it (which is normal result for felons).

I typed up the notes from his convo with his shrink.

[mrsixpack36]

I have always had mixed feelings about it. Even though the guy is scum and deserves it, the taking of a life has never sat well with me.

[23 Everest]

He’s using the Mormon faith just like he’s using the system.

[23 Everest]

come on, splitting hairs to push you’re agenda for godlessness.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The LSM is interested in this method of execution in West because it isn’t by one today except Utah. For some reason the LSM doesn’t seem to be interested in Muslim methods of execution like beheadings.

[Colofornian]

I guess you "win" the June FR "contest" MB (competition with thecabal and 23 Everest) for "shooting the thread messenger"
...on, ironically, a thread about shooting the murderer...
...whose on death row 'cause he shot innocent victims.

Well, at least you're consistent for once MB.

The least you could do is to balance your sniper fire scope so that at least something is trained on Gardner...and not only me...This two-bit murderer who conned a woman into becoming a fellow killer (she smuggled the weapon into the courthouse) is about to be a living-dead exemplar of justice.

[BlueMoose]

http://www.shields-research.org/General/blood_atonement.htm

[Grunthor]

Yes but YOU are here, now and posted the article.

[reaganaut]

Perhaps. But from what I know personally, he really believes it.

[reaganaut]

No, correcting a misconception.

ID has banned the firing squad now, and OK only has it as a back up.

And why on earth would you think I have an agenda of ‘godlessness’??

Sorry to disappoint, but I am a Christian not an atheist.

[BlueMoose]

See post 51

There is no such a doctrine as blood atonement in the Church today nor has there been at any time. Any statements to the contrary are either idle speculation or pure fantasy. It is certainly not the current teaching of the Church and I have never in over 60 years of regular church attendance heard a single sermon on the subject or even a discussion in any church class.

[23 Everest]

I’ll call the dogs back into the yard. Have a nice night.

[BlueMoose]

Change that to post 53

[BIGLOOK]

All outcomes are the same. Truthfully I can't fathom that the act of execution is inhumane for someone who showed no humanity to his victims.