Firing Squad

[Bugzilla]

Why not an O2 mask with nitrogen instead. One breath and your dead. Guess SC chose a good 2nd choice.

South Carolina Greenlights Firing Squad Executions

The South Carolina Department of Correction said the state is finally prepared to carry out firing-squad executions, a year after the method was codified into state law, The Associated Press reported. Lawmakers signed on to the bill last summer, which also makes the electric ...

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[churchmouse]

Why not an O2 mask with nitrogen instead. One breath and your dead. Guess SC chose a good 2nd choice.

South Carolina Greenlights Firing Squad Executions

The South Carolina Department of Correction said the state is finally prepared to carry out firing-squad executions, a year after the method was codified into state law, The Associated Press reported. Lawmakers signed on to the bill last summer, which also makes the electric ...

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Yes.

 

[ghitch75]

 

[DadSmith]

Why not an O2 mask with nitrogen instead. One breath and your dead. Guess SC chose a good 2nd choice.

South Carolina Greenlights Firing Squad Executions

The South Carolina Department of Correction said the state is finally prepared to carry out firing-squad executions, a year after the method was codified into state law, The Associated Press reported. Lawmakers signed on to the bill last summer, which also makes the electric ...

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Ammunition is still cheaper than anything else used. I'm sure government will figure out a way for firing squads to cost 10's of thousands of dollars.

 

[Tryin']

Hypoxia actually takes several minutes and the spectacle would be determined by the resistance of the condemned.

If they relax, it can be a relatively painless way to go. I used to work in the medgas business and have seen the effects. Nitrogen is effective and about as cheap as you can get.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Huh.

”South Carolina is one of four states that permit execution by firing squad, along with Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah.”

 

[Onebad06vtx]

Can they practice in DC?

 

[Ark]

Eh. If the state is going to kill people, it should look and sound like the state killing people, not like some quasi-medical procedure as if we're doing this for the inmate's own good.

Hanging, shooting, beheading, whatever. This is the state doing violence, so be honest about it being violence.

 

[bgcatty]

I’ll donate the ammo to speed up the process and clear out death row inmates. It is time the families of their victims get justice.

 

[binkerton]

Good, now make them public again. Been saying for years that people wouldnt be so bold to commit these heinous crimes if this stuff was televised.

 

[MCgrease08]

It's how I would want to go if I were gonna be executed.

 

[BugI02]

And child molesters get gut shot at 25 yards with a 45-70 and left to die?

 

[Indyhd]

Doesn't matter to me how they do it, let's just get the party started !!

 

[Denny347]

Ammunition is still cheaper than anything else used. I'm sure government will figure out a way for firing squads to cost 10's of thousands of dollars.

The actual execution isn't that expensive. Making sure you are killing the right person...that costs quite a bit.

 

[DadSmith]

The actual execution isn't that expensive. Making sure you are killing the right person...that costs quite a bit.

What requirements are involved in that process?

 

[TheGhostRider]

Public execution... Now that's a game-show that I can watch! Politicians anyone?

I remember the last "Death by firing squad" execution. I was fairly young but his name was Gary Gilmore. Took a pellet to the "credit card" and it was lights out.

 

[BigRed]

I'be always advocated giving thugs a chance.

Firing squads do not do that.

It would be better to give the thug a run down a 100yd x 50yd high fenced corridor with a door at the end.

Folks wanting dynamic target practice could pay a small fee to post up along the way with their own firearms.

Release the target and give it a chance to make a run for it. If it makes it out the door within five minutes, let it go.

 

[Denny347]

What requirements are involved in that process?

Appeals, lots of appeals. They take a long time and are very expensive. Lots of man hours involved to insure that the person about to be executed is the one who actually committed the crime. Even after all that, 100% innocent people have been executed. I'm really torn as an LEO. However, seeing how messed up our criminal justice system is, I don't trust it to always kill the guilty and that gives me significant pause. Seeing how many people spent decades in prison for crimes they had nothing to do with is scary if you consider that likely correlates to death row.

 

[churchmouse]

Appeals, lots of appeals. They take a long time and are very expensive. Lots of man hours involved on the premise that the person about to be executed is the one who actually committed the crime. Even after all that, 100% innocent people have been executed. I'm really torn as an LEO. However, seeing how messed up our criminal justice system is, I don't trust it to always kill the guilty and that gives me significant pause. Seeing how many people spent decades in prison for crimes they had nothing to do with is scary if you consider that likely correlates to death row.

How many of those incarcerated and innocent correlates to lazy/corrupt/inept prosecutors. I can see this as a serious problem.

 

[2in1evtime]

7 man firing squad, 7 bullets cost 7 bucks, inmate in prison cost 70 to 100 thousand per year to support, time for the bullet bargain i think