Death by firing squad

[dcbogey]

The condemned choose it. Why is it even a choice? For what it's worth, I don't think the death penalty is worth it.
I hope you read the article - it's an interesting story, if only as a warning for a society that lets kids fall through the cracks.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/utah-man-to-face-execution-by-firing-squad/article1608445/

 

[alexmst]

The condemned choose it. Why is it even a choice? For what it's worth, I don't think the death penalty is worth it.
I hope you read the article - it's an interesting story, if only as a warning for a society that lets kids fall through the cracks.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/utah-man-to-face-execution-by-firing-squad/article1608445/

If I was to be executed I would pick firing squad over any other method offered in the U.S.

The most humane method of dispatch I would think would be the guillotine that France used for capital punishment up until 1981. I believe French law stated that serious crimes aginst the State were punished by death by firing squad, whereas all other death penalty cases were done by guillotine.

Anyway, I would pick firing squad as my first choice. Hanging, lethal injection, electrocution, gas chambers - those are all much worse in my opinion.

As for not having a death penalty or having it...I think it is good to have it for the worst of the worst. Florida does have it, so things are fine here the way they are now in that regard imo.

 

[zardoz]

capital punishment is stupid. if one desires to live, he should be given chance to. they can lock him up for life, and use him for slave labour if he still desires to live. The only time capital punishment would be okay is when he chooses to die.

 

[fuji]

Lethal injection SHOULD be the best method but for some reason they horrendously fuck it up.

I agree that capital punishment is counter-productive and stupid.

 

[nottyboi]

I dunno why they come up with these fucked up barbaric methods of killing people. All they have to do is pipe carbon dioxide into the condemned persons cell while he is sleeping and that would be it. No blood, gore, no heads bursting into flames. etc etc. But on the whole, it is barbaric and has no place in modern society.

 

[alexmst]

Update: Gardner executed by firing squad

Draper, Utah (CNN) -- Convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed early Friday by firing squad, the Utah Department of Corrections said.

He was killed at 12:20 a.m. MST (2:20 a.m. ET), a Corrections Department spokesman said.

The execution came after Gardner's last-ditch efforts to save himself had failed.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request Thursday to temporarily stay the execution. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert rejected two appeals by Gardner's attorneys to stop the execution.

 

[papasmerf]

you never even hear the shot

 

[Natalie]

I'm not for the death penalty. I have seen what prison can do to a person (no I'm not talking about myself). Even one of the parents of Karla's and Paul's victims doesn't believe it as well nor does he/she want it re-instated. Says a lot to me. It's too easy of a way out. One of their survivours also does not wish for either to die. All she wants is justice but never got it.

 

[MrPrezident]

Curly Howard of the Three Stooges, when offered a choice of execution for the boys, picked burning at the stake over the guillotine. Curly said, "A hot steak is better than a cold chop."

 

[ig-88]

Either have the death penalty, and use it in a way that acts as a deterrent, as in the Middle East, or don't have it at all.

Seems the way the US does it, it's not deterring much. People still go on murderous rampages, shoot cops, etc.

So then, the only purpose it serves to to exact vengeance, something which, imo, the state should not be involved with.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

I talked to an old mountie that was chosen to be the Queens rep. for a hanging in the old Don Jail in the 1950s. He told me that it was the most horrific thing he had ever witnessed. The condemned man hung and twisted for half an hour before he died, in other cases the neck can be snapped and the head decapitated from the body. Why traumatize the witnesses?

Imagine if you were chosen to be in the firing squad against your will. I would think that it can be a traumatizing life altering event. If I were chosen and had no choice to participate in a firing squad, I would aim for the nuts.

 

[ig-88]

as I understand it, all of the bullets are blanks, except one of them being the real one

of the firing squad, no one knows if they have the real bullet

 

[Back Burner]

you never even hear the shot

I heard that you would disarm the firing squad in 2 seconds and have them begging for their lives, tough guy.

 

[Aardvark154]

Ronnie Lee Gardner supposedly chose it because he felt it would be the least painful way to die. However, I have my suspicions that what 4Tees wrote above is on the mark.

Utah offered it, people currently being sentenced to death don't have the option of firing squad, because of the Mormon concept of Blood Atonement i.e. that the only way for a murderer to make things right, is to have their own blood spilled when they die.

 

[hungry]

as I understand it, all of the bullets are blanks, except one of them being the real one

of the firing squad, no one knows if they have the real bullet

Actually, they all use real bullets and one blank. No one knows who has the blank.

 

[Cassini]

Sadistic points about capital punishment in the U.S.:

If you are executed, and you somehow survive, the state gets to try again???

If you are injured, you have to wait until fully recovered, to get executed???

Trivia: The U.S. is pro-capital punishment, but against mercy killing, even for people to be executed anyway.

 

[fuji]

as I understand it, all of the bullets are blanks, except one of them being the real one

It's usually the other way around, one gun has blanks, the others have real bullets. If only one gun has real bullets you run the risk the guy with that gun will miss or only hit to wound. You want lots of bullets.

Even then the job might not get done right.

 

[fuji]

you never even hear the shot

Depends on how good their aim is.

 

[nottyboi]

as I understand it, all of the bullets are blanks, except one of them being the real one

of the firing squad, no one knows if they have the real bullet

they normally load one random rifle with a blank to give the executioneers some peace of mind, but anyone who has fired a gun can tell the difference between a blank and alive round due to difference in recoil. In Thailand they used to use a machine gun that was fixed and shoot of a short belt of rounds through your heart from the back. They must have stopped doing that because to must have been pretty messy.

 

[randygirl]

I dunno why they come up with these fucked up barbaric methods of killing people. All they have to do is pipe carbon dioxide into the condemned persons cell while he is sleeping and that would be it. No blood, gore, no heads bursting into flames. etc etc. But on the whole, it is barbaric and has no place in modern society.

They could also use a noble gas. It would produce asphyxiation just like carbon monoxide.

That being said, I do not agree with the death penalty.

I believe this guy chose the firing squad for the reason a poster above stated; strictly for the publicity.