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2014-07-25 -Lurid Crime Tales-
US judge: Use firing squad for death row inmates
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Posted by Fred 2014-07-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
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#1 I'm all for firing squads. Quick, easy and cheap.
Posted by DarthVader 2014-07-25 00:53||   2014-07-25 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 So be it. It is more Humane.
Posted by newc 2014-07-25 01:52||   2014-07-25 01:52|| Front Page Top

#3 To be on the safe side, I recommend 'buck & ball.'
Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-25 06:50||   2014-07-25 06:50|| Front Page Top

#4 We can't come up with a high tech reliable guillotine?

With the durability and long life of our machines, e.g. cars, lawn mowers, saws, etc., we can't come up with one to reliably off some punk scum?
Posted by AlanC 2014-07-25 08:08||   2014-07-25 08:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Ever notice the warnings plastered over plastic bags to keep them out of the hands of children. That's because when they put their heads in them and fresh air is not coming in, they slowly fall asleep from the ever increasing inhalation of their own exhaled CO2. There is no natural panic or alarm. They just shuffle off and die. Tragic, but as a means of execution, relatively humane, simple (no FDA requirements), and cheap.
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-25 09:11||   2014-07-25 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Need not even be a firing squad. Hook up a GAU8, bore sight it. Fill the prisoner with sedatives to the point of unconsciousness, strap them to a board, prop them up where the gun is zeroed.

Have a computer fire off the relay based on a pressure plate and a timer. Run for 2 second burst.

Guaranteed no human hand directly kills the inmate, and guaranteed dead as a doornail.
Posted by OldSpook 2014-07-25 09:22||   2014-07-25 09:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Holy overkill, OS. A 2 second burst at 4200 rpm is 140 rounds of 30 mm.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-07-25 09:53||   2014-07-25 09:53|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm not concerned whether execution is slow or fast or painful or painless. And I agree that lethal injection is an attempt to make the process seem 'cleaner.' But really, why such a big deal about what drugs to inject? There's a lot of heroin confiscated, and a lot more available cheap, direct from the growers, and a lot of people OD on the stuff by accident, even with known risks, so it must have some desirable characteristics. So, just pop these guys with a serious megadose of heroin and let them go out high and happy, and cheaply.
Posted by Glenmore 2014-07-25 10:12||   2014-07-25 10:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Have you noticed that many of the people who are anti-death penalty are the same people who are pro-abortion?
Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-25 10:13||   2014-07-25 10:13|| Front Page Top

#10 What's wrong with a rope and a short drop?

Or we can be all multicultural and use a crane like the Iranians do.
Posted by CrazyFool 2014-07-25 10:17||   2014-07-25 10:17|| Front Page Top

#11 JohnQC says: Have you noticed that many of the people who are anti-death penalty are the same people who are pro-abortion?

Also notice that the same people believe marriage is an obsolete institution, unless it is between two homosexuals?
Posted by bigjim-CA 2014-07-25 11:26||   2014-07-25 11:26|| Front Page Top

#12 JohnQC: No, I have not. There are a lot of vehemently anti-abortion Catholics who are likewise opposed to the death penalty. Last time I stuck my head in the Corner over at National Review, either a plurality or possibly a bare majority of the writers over there were opposed to the death penalty on ideological grounds.
Posted by Mitch H.  2014-07-25 12:07||   2014-07-25 12:07|| Front Page Top

#13 I am Catholic. I vehemently oppose abortion. On the other hand, I respectfully disagree with my bishops on the issue of the death penalty. They're against it, I favor it in some cases.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-07-25 12:36||   2014-07-25 12:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Sign me up, I've seen to many animals go free.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-07-25 14:10||   2014-07-25 14:10|| Front Page Top

#15 Just be Damned sure.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-07-25 14:11||   2014-07-25 14:11|| Front Page Top

#16 Nah, let's drop them alive into vats of molten glass, let it cool, then put it in the public square with details about their crimes. Nice visible view of criminals potential future.
Posted by Silentbrick 2014-07-25 14:35||   2014-07-25 14:35|| Front Page Top

#17 Cyanide in the desert of their last meal. Don't even tell them the procedure has changed.
Posted by rjschwarz 2014-07-25 14:43||   2014-07-25 14:43|| Front Page Top

#18 I'm catholic. Strongly pro life. Opposed to the death penalty, except in very specific circumstances, and with very high standard of proof. Higher than proof needed for conviction. For Capitol crimes, perhaps there should be a completely different trial after the conviction, just for sentencing: life with possibility of parole after a statutory minimum of say 25 years, life no parole, and execution.

And I was only half joking with my execution method. Execution should be quick, effective beyond the shadow of a doubt, relatively painless, and terrible to behold, to act as a deterrent as well as a just punishment. Let's be very clear what we are doing as a society. I am loathe to praise the soviets but the pistol shot to the back of the head was effective and quick - and could likely be automated to where no human hand is directly involved.
Posted by OldSpook 2014-07-25 14:45||   2014-07-25 14:45|| Front Page Top

#19 I also think cyanide would work better in the dessert rather than the desert where the scorpions are gonna eat it.
Posted by rjschwarz 2014-07-25 15:01||   2014-07-25 15:01|| Front Page Top

#20 Some definitions:

Capital Crimes:
One for the punishment of which death is inflicted, which punishment is called capital punishment.


Capitol Crimes:
Crimes and malfeasance down to or toward the public by the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government. These crimes are very difficult to convict as the problem is so far up the organizational chart that the ones committing these crimes are the ones investigating them.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-07-25 16:16||   2014-07-25 16:16|| Front Page Top

#21 I have not. There are a lot of vehemently anti-abortion Catholics who are likewise opposed to the death penalty

I used to be anti-death penalty. Then I heard opn serial killers being released and killing again. Neing released becasue "otherwise with nothing to lose they would be very dangerous for the guards"
Posted by JFM 2014-07-25 16:26||   2014-07-25 16:26|| Front Page Top

#22 For those unalterably opposed to the death penalty, I offer two words: Lemuel Smith. Look him up in Wikipedia. He was serving a life sentence when he killed a female prison guard. He was sentenced to death, but his lawyers got the law declared unconstitutional. Instead, he was sentenced to life without parole.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-07-25 16:47||   2014-07-25 16:47|| Front Page Top

#23 Mr.Smith has more power than the state.

Read Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It's the constant killing, vendetta, between the two families that was normal in his time. It took the state hundreds of years to establish the monopoly on death promising it would deliver justice. Now the ruling caste can't bring itself to fulfill its part of that bargain. The power will revert back to the people and already has in places like Chicago.

There is no perfect. However, the number of people that have been sitting on death row for decades is significantly smaller than the murders, that is properly, executions that occur annually in our neighborhoods, streets, business, streets, homes and schools. Who wields the real power?
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-25 20:28||   2014-07-25 20:28|| Front Page Top

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