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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Idaho allows execution by firing squad if lethal injection is unavailable
2023-03-21
[GEO.TV] The legislature of the western US state, Idaho, has passed a bill on Monday that authorises the use of a firing squad as a means of execution in the event that lethal injection is unavailable for death row inmates.
If I take my poor old dog to the vet to have her put down and they're out of whatever it is they use are they gonna shoot her? Same idea. Why won't the same meds they used on my dogs work, by the way? It's not like it'd kill them... Well, I guess it would.
Idaho would become the fifth US state to approve execution by firing squad, after Utah, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and South Carolina, according to the Death Penalty Information Centre.

Since 1976 and the end of a brief moratorium on the death penalty
 in the United States, two men and a woman have been executed in this way -- all in Utah, also in the west. The last one was 2010.

The US states which have the death penalty have been experiencing great difficulty in obtaining the chemical components necessary for a lethal injection, due to opposition by pharmaceutical companies which do not want to be associated with executions.

Death by firing squad would occur in Idaho only if a lethal injection were not possible.

Posted by:Fred

#6  and he chose it, IIRC
Posted by: Frank G   2023-03-21 19:16  

#5  If I remember correctly Gary Gilmore was executed in Utah in January of 1977.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2023-03-21 16:06  

#4  If I take my poor old dog to the vet

Texas country is full of 'kill shelters', an oxymoron for the morons. A lot of neighborhood drop offs get laid to rest there.

I was always taught a man should be able to put down his dog or horse in a comfortable setting. 'On the table' is a terrifying way to go.

I think if the 'shoot states' ran a lottery for executioner each time, there might be a lot of tickets sold.

/DaleRamble
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-03-21 11:59  

#3  Simple plastic bag over the head. Kiddie warnings on the stuff because its so easy and no natural panic or stress warnings involved.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-03-21 09:08  

#2  Wait for it...
Some activist Lawyer seek media attention, will bring a legal challenge, that the Ammo Caliber, type of rifle and/or brand of ammo is untested for human executions.

With that said. IF it produces a 1 shot, kill shot, I'd buy box of the same ammo and put up a sign of the gate marked.

" Homeowner uses _____ Ammo,
a proven solution to criminals"
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-03-21 08:32  

#1  So what exactly are the authorities doing with the vast amounts of hyper lethal fentanyl they keep confiscating?
Posted by: Cesare   2023-03-21 07:56  

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