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Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 7:03:00 PM   
TheHeretic


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Status: offline 		So here is a fun little story from the BBC, about proposals to dump lethal injection as a method of execution, and go back to the quicker and more sure fire method of a firing squad.

The story is elsewhere as well, but since a good reason the recent Oklahoma delivery of justice was messed up was because European companies decided to play around in our policies, they seem the right source to me.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27303555

To my mind, a properly done hanging (the neck snaps, severs the spinal cord, and death is quick) is a bit more humane. It's even the green and sustainable method, since you can re-use the rope. Unfortunately, hanging is so racially stigmatized that simply tying the right knot is considered a hate crime in some places.

Rifles will get the job done, if they need to.

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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 7:10:39 PM   
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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 7:15:24 PM   
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There would be a fierce debate over whether the rope should be made from hemp.



We have a large domestic supply.

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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 7:25:28 PM   
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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 7:48:38 PM   
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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 7:59:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		Why the need for a squad? With budget cuts, seems a lone shooter would do the trick.

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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 8:23:00 PM   
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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 8:25:27 PM   
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Why the need for a squad? With budget cuts, seems a lone shooter would do the trick.



My understanding of firing squads was that one shooter always had dummy rounds - and no one knew which one - so that if the verdict/sentence was wrong, no one could be prosecuted for murder for doing "their job".







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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 8:29:49 PM   
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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 8:46:22 PM   
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Why the need for a squad? With budget cuts, seems a lone shooter would do the trick.



My understanding of firing squads was that one shooter always had dummy rounds - and no one knew which one - so that if the verdict/sentence was wrong, no one could be prosecuted for murder for doing "their job".







Screen captures still RULE! Ya feel me?

My understanding was that with a blank each member of the firing squad
could tell himself that the blank was in his gun.

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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 8:48:33 PM   
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Why the need for a squad? With budget cuts, seems a lone shooter would do the trick.



My understanding of firing squads was that one shooter always had dummy rounds - and no one knew which one - so that if the verdict/sentence was wrong, no one could be prosecuted for murder for doing "their job".







Screen captures still RULE! Ya feel me?

My understanding was that with a blank each member of the firing squad
could tell himself that the blank was in his gun.


That, too but I thought it was for legal ramifications, as well.







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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 8:51:56 PM   
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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 9:06:29 PM   
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Well, the NRA would be all for it.

I don't know, have you seen how outrageous ammo prices are these days? Maybe they should use defenestration instead. Gravity is free.

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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 9:17:09 PM   
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I'm kind of fond of the idea of using high-explosives. One or two sticks of TNT should suffice. It's cheap, and if done outside, it's super-quick, (most likely) painless, and there's no mess to clean up. We can even let the family of the victims press the button when applicable.

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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 9:22:01 PM   
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My system would involve establishing a nature preserve for endangered predators (so this would be the perfect place for such individuals) like the American crocodile, Puma concolor, swamp bears, the jaguar, the American alligator, use recovered DNA to reintroduce Smilodon, the Canis dirus, and various other predator and prey species, surround the preserve with 25 foot high game fencing (dont want the crocs jumping the fence.)

Now we will provide humane living quarters with all the comforts of home, and established resupply points around the preserve, of course the inmates would have to walk to these points, and they should be at least a 6 day round trip.

Now since we have placed prey animals for the predators to hunt, the inmates should be safe.

It would be better than nailing them to the floor of a rotting shack using a nail gun to nail their penis to the floor, leaving them a rusty, dull knife and setting the shack on fire.

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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 9:24:24 PM   
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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 9:27:26 PM   
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I'm kind of fond of the idea of using high-explosives. One or two sticks of TNT should suffice. It's cheap, and if done outside, it's super-quick, (most likely) painless, and there's no mess to clean up. We can even let the family of the victims press the button when applicable.

There's a noise ordinance.

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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 9:33:09 PM   
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FR

I'm kind of fond of the idea of using high-explosives. One or two sticks of TNT should suffice. It's cheap, and if done outside, it's super-quick, (most likely) painless, and there's no mess to clean up. We can even let the family of the victims press the button when applicable.

There's a noise ordinance.

Well, it does go along with my idea that prisons should be built in Death Valley. Noise shouldn't be a problem.

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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 9:39:06 PM   
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RE: Bring back execution by firing squad? - 5/19/2014 9:52:31 PM   
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I don't know, have you seen how outrageous ammo prices are these days?



Use AK's. Soviet surplus 7.62 x 39 is running about 23 cents a round when you buy it by the 1000 round box.

Quick. Clean(ish). Simple. No violation of the cruel and unusual clause.

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