Utah House Votes to Bring Back Execution by Firing Squad

Started by jimmy olsen, February 15, 2015, 10:32:52 AM

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Syt

#15
February 15, 2015, 01:18:10 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 15, 2015, 01:10:16 PM
Quote from: Syt on February 15, 2015, 01:06:17 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on February 15, 2015, 12:42:28 PM
I actually don't get the big deal.  Execution should be as close to instantaneous death as possible, and from what's been observed so far, a firing squad would be much closer to that than a lethal injection.

Shouldn't they go with a neck shot then?

Brain stem.

I meant base of the skull, in German "Genick". Something like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genickschussanlage
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#16
February 15, 2015, 02:11:11 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 15, 2015, 01:10:37 PM
Or even better, instead of execution, we can imprison convicts in giant caged hamster wheels to generate electricity.
...which is then stored in giant capacitors and used in electric chairs to execute them.
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February 15, 2015, 02:48:09 PM
Quote from: grumbler on February 15, 2015, 02:11:11 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 15, 2015, 01:10:37 PM
Or even better, instead of execution, we can imprison convicts in giant caged hamster wheels to generate electricity.
...which is then stored in giant capacitors and used in electric chairs to execute them.
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#18
February 15, 2015, 03:16:15 PM
Man I would hate to be one of the guys asked to gun down one of those poor bastards. 
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#19
February 15, 2015, 03:44:34 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 15, 2015, 03:16:15 PM
Man I would hate to be one of the guys asked to gun down one of those poor bastards. 

What if they have good health insurance, and free water bottles?
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#20
February 15, 2015, 03:55:17 PM
Quote from: lustindarkness on February 15, 2015, 03:44:34 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 15, 2015, 03:16:15 PM
Man I would hate to be one of the guys asked to gun down one of those poor bastards. 

What if they have good health insurance, and free water bottles?

Free water bottles?  Well ok I would have to think about it.
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#21
February 15, 2015, 03:58:10 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 15, 2015, 03:16:15 PM
Man I would hate to be one of the guys asked to gun down one of those poor bastards.

I bet they could get lots of volunteers.
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#22
February 15, 2015, 04:00:49 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on February 15, 2015, 03:58:10 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 15, 2015, 03:16:15 PM
Man I would hate to be one of the guys asked to gun down one of those poor bastards.

I bet they could get lots of volunteers.

We have a hell of a time finding people in Texas to just do lethal injections.  But maybe an opportunity to use guns will bring out a certain demographic.
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#23
February 15, 2015, 04:06:07 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 15, 2015, 04:00:49 PM

We have a hell of a time finding people in Texas to just do lethal injections.  But maybe an opportunity to use guns will bring out a certain demographic.

Yeah, but you are trying to get doctors for that, and you have a bunch of interest groups asking questions about medical ethics and licensing.
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Admiral Yi

#24
February 15, 2015, 04:14:13 PM
I thought the injection folks were all techs.

celedhring

#25
February 15, 2015, 04:22:58 PM
Quote from: Zanza on February 15, 2015, 12:59:42 PM
Maybe instead of a firing squad they could just shoot the person in the back of the head from close range?

Didn't they do that in Russia?

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#26
February 15, 2015, 04:25:17 PM
Quote from: celedhring on February 15, 2015, 04:22:58 PM
Quote from: Zanza on February 15, 2015, 12:59:42 PM
Maybe instead of a firing squad they could just shoot the person in the back of the head from close range?

Didn't they do that in Russia?

Not nearly enough. :(
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#27
February 15, 2015, 04:39:43 PM
Quote from: celedhring on February 15, 2015, 04:22:58 PM
Quote from: Zanza on February 15, 2015, 12:59:42 PM
Maybe instead of a firing squad they could just shoot the person in the back of the head from close range?

Didn't they do that in Russia?

The Chinese have a system based on swift and efficient executions, that seems to reduce the stress suffered by the condemned people.

Of course they fall down rather on the whole justice and the guilty/not-guilty bit. 
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#28
February 15, 2015, 05:59:09 PM
Quote from: Zanza on February 15, 2015, 12:59:42 PM
Maybe instead of a firing squad they could just shoot the person in the back of the head from close range?

In the U.S., the defendant has the right to face his accuser, even during the sentencing phase.

Drakken

#29
February 15, 2015, 06:20:34 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 15, 2015, 03:16:15 PM
Man I would hate to be one of the guys asked to gun down one of those poor bastards.

Don't worry, you might be the one with the blank.
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