SC brings back the firing squad

[precision1]

Nothing wrong with a good old fashioned bullet

 

[clams243]

just have the condemned donate all their blood to the Red Cross at one time, that will work and there will be no mess to clean up. It is a win win for all. and it's fail proof.

 

[284winner]

Three rifleman from 15 feet away. South Carolina granted this request yesterday.

Idaho reinstated the method of execution after so many failed lethal injections. I think I heard five states permit this election, but no one had opted for it in 15 years until now.

I’m really perplexed how something like fentanyl, which is a component of surgical anesthesia and a predominant cause of death in our country amongst drug users, and which is evidently extremely easy to overdose on, eludes the states’ prison bureaus.

Are states not bogging down in bureaucratic bungling this macabre but straight forward task, now unnecessarily dramatic? Regular people have accomplished this act since, Cain, offspring number “one.”

If our states cannot accomplish an intentional overdose (you can only underdo it) with a prepared IV drip on a secured inmate, is three guys standing beside each other with high powered rifles - I’m wagering shooting their first human, not fraught with quite a bit of potential mishap?

Questions I have:

1) when these employees inevitably claim PTSD, hearing damage, inability to sleep, familial strife, fallout from being doxxed, and all obtain social security disability, how much will these executions really cost them and us?

2) do they tryout for this? what do they do the rest of the time; I really hope this is not the “full-time” job;

3) is rifle handling, presumably indoors out of view, and steadily aiming a rifle at a man’s heart while standing and coordinating shots on verbal command supposed to be the more foolproof execution alternative?

I can’t help but think of once when a trapped hog I shot didn’t die humanely with the rounds I had on hand in a revolver. It just seems like a move toward the spectacle of it all.

Many prisons have gun teams. Not for execution but for competition with other state prisons. Maybe these are the shooters. Can't say because Michigan doesn't have the honor of using the death penalty. We just spend 60K per year housing them so the victims families can know they are getting the best healthcare and education including a law degree while locked up that taxpayers can offer them. I understand the humanity of your statement. I've always thought that once a prisoner was locked up, justice was served until I actually saw how they live and are treated inside even a max prison. Red Cross comes to prisons giving prisoners all sorts of goodies. Other than living their lives inside a smallish perimeter, they have all the conveniences of home except full freedom beyond that perimeter. Being in state LE for 35 years and now PT with the sheriff's office working with the US Marshals and ICE hauling illegals to court, I've seen things that most haven't or never will. This brings a different opinion to the subject of course. My humanity has changed considerably in this area. Nitrogen gas would may be be a more reliable guarantee of a death but that's not a current option in most states.

 

[lachoneus]

Gary Gilmore was executed by a 5-member firing squad in Utah in January 1977. According to a news article, four 150 grain bullets from Winchester Silvertip .30-30 cartridges (fired from a distance of 20 feet) pierced his heart and exited. He continued breathing for two minutes following the shots but showed no signs of consciousness.

Execution can be more humane, in my view, than some types of incarceration. For those prisoners serving life sentences in the ADX Supermax prison in Colorado, they are effectively buried alive: they never again see outside of the prison; many are in virtually solitary confinement and they live in a 7x12-foot cell 23 hours a day. Said Robert Hood, former warden of the prison: “As soon as they come through the door ... you see it in their faces. That’s when it really hits you. You’re looking at the beauty of the Rocky Mountains in the backdrop. When you get inside, that is the last time you will ever see it. The Supermax is life after death. It’s long term. In my opinion, it’s far much worse than death.”

 

[Dgd6mm]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Gary Gilmore was executed by a 5-member firing squad in Utah in January 1977. According to a news article, four 150 grain bullets from Winchester Silvertip .30-30 cartridges (fired from a distance of 20 feet) pierced his heart and exited. He continued breathing for two minutes following the shots but showed no signs of consciousness.

Execution can be more humane, in my view, than some types of incarceration. For those prisoners serving life sentences in the ADX Supermax prison in Colorado, they are effectively buried alive: they never again see outside of the prison; many are in virtually solitary confinement and they live in a 7x12-foot cell 23 hours a day. Said Robert Hood, former warden of the prison: “As soon as they come through the door ... you see it in their faces. That’s when it really hits you. You’re looking at the beauty of the Rocky Mountains in the backdrop. When you get inside, that is the last time you will ever see it. The Supermax is life after death. It’s long term. In my opinion, it’s far much worse than death.”

Are you feeling sorry for these SOB’s ?

 

[lachoneus]

Are you feeling sorry for these SOB’s ?

Nope, just pointing out that execution may be the easier way out for them.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Nope, just pointing out that execution may be the easier way out for them.

Okay, sorry for my misunderstanding.

 

[Larryh128]

Sign me up, I'll pay my own way. I have absolutely no remorse for people who murder, I do feel bad for their families. I would have absolutely no issue putting one of them down.

 

[NorCalMikie]

Got called for Jury Duty. Case was about a guy accused of attempted murder. We would go back into the court at lunch time to see how things were done. Finally, was told to STAY OUT cause one of the witnesses in our case was on the stand. Come to find out he was up for 3 STRIKES so he shut up to keep from hanging himself. It was HE that was drunk and stabbed the person in question. He admitted it but the DA ignored that fact.
Typical county DA looking for a WIN ignored the slimes testimony and had his mind set on hanging OUR man.
The question was asked of our man, who was accused of being drunk and attempted murder, why did "your" blood test come out NEGATIVE for alcohol in your system? His reply? Can't drink. Makes me deathly ill. The DA just stood there with egg on his face.
Lucky for OUR man, we saw thru all the courtroom B*** S*** and found him NOT GUILTY!!
And to this day, the defense attorney still has a big TRUMP placard in his upstairs office window facing Main streets, for ALL to see.

 

[MATT HELM]

A nylon rope and a tree works for me.
Add a saddled horse and pistol shot, that would be Cool.

I know … why waste the ammo ? Make the D.A. the hangman .

 

[gpoldblue]

Guillotine. Don't try and sanitize something that isn't. Maybe execution should be carried out in the same manner that their victims received

Let the punishment fit the crime ........then kill 'em!