Utah considers resuming firing squad executions

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How about a used loader bucket and a sand bank behind an e-aimed rifle to catch the ricochets. The chair in question might be a 'friendly-fire' for anybody walking beind the chair if one of the shooters decides the guy deserves one between the eyes rather than through the heart or whever. Letting those most hurt could do the fake aiming of an e-rifle while the actual shot was at a designated target down to the mm.
 
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I'm going to assume each Judge will be rendering about 10 decisions a day to make this 'cost-effective. Suddenly accidents at sea are too barbaric?
With the 'honey-wagons' that came around daily collecting the dead during the black death there was the 'shop-talk' line that went something like, 'There was this one guy that kept insisting he wasn't dead yet yet but you know how the ones from that part of town like to lie, right? So into the pile he went..' Not a true story I hope.

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Not very effective. At least a cordless drill plus a PHD in medicine is necessary to do the job right.
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Go in through the temple at high speed with even a pencil and the lobotomy is as good as you could ever hope for. At some point the bodies are going to start piling up, is that an upcoming industry boom because I know a place with a 4ft NG line that has years of service life left in it.

Would a generic waiver cover that or would some permits also be needed?

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Save the cost of bullets. Lobotomize them and turn them loose.
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As what, food that doesn't need a fridge?
 
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WLDB said:
Thats far more expensive than bullets.



Thats not a lobotomy.
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Anyone can perform a lobotomy. It's easy. All that's required is a screwdriver and a stout heart.

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Go in through the temple at high speed with even a pencil and the lobotomy is as good as you could ever hope for. At some point the bodies are going to start piling up, is that an upcoming industry boom because I know a place with a 4ft NG line that has years of service life left in it.
Would a waiver cover that or would some permits also be needed?


As what, food that doesn't need a fridge?
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That's brilliant. We simply eat the condemned.
 
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IdRatherBeSkiing said:
Dead is dead. A properly run firing squad can produce a quick and reasonably painless death. Better than hanging or electric chair.
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Define proper. The 'old ways were a 'squad of men' a 5 blanks and 1 live round. Let me trim the excess off that for you.
Victim gets a target to hold and he is given a set number of choices of where that goes. At the same time if this happens to be the old teachers and other 'educated people' then they might be willing to take a drop in pay grade and help the replacement take over the 'business'.

The top 3% becoming instanbtly unemployed and unemployable would see their money go into a bank account that has an account for everyone with a valid birth certificate. The money tree needs to be a public service rather than being the top of the food-chain. Minimum wage and 6 months on and 6 monts off gets you a reduced income in the off season. The good news is travel is free and locations are based on room and board costs alone so it costs the same no matter where you are.
 
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While I don't generally support capital punishment, I see nothing wrong with firing a warning shot between somebody like Olsen's or Bernardo's eyes.
 
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Is it just me or don't they dangle that 'return to firing squad' thing every couple of years?

Maybe Utah is just lonely, nobody pays it any attention now that the Osmonds have left.
 
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If one supports capital punishment it only makes sense to use firing squads because of the litigation climate in the US. The humane use of a cocktail of drugs has been stymied by a lack of some of the required drugs. Those drugs are in short supply because the manufacturers are attacked through litigation by anti-capital punishment activist lawyers who sue the pants off the manufacturers for producing unsafe drugs.

I've opposed capital punishment because I don't like the idea of any govt. exercising the power of life and death. I like very limited and weak govt. But mghz suggested that we eat the condemned, and the idea strikes me as very sensible. It's a way of fighting hunger and providing a varied diet at the same time.

I like fresh food. So perhaps the best approach is to allow the condemned to be literally torn apart by a crowd of gourmets.
 
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BaalsTears said:
If one supports capital punishment it only makes sense to use firing squads because of the litigation climate in the US. The humane use of a cocktail of drugs has been stymied by a lack of some of the required drugs. Those drugs are in short supply because the manufacturers are attacked through litigation by anti-capital punishment activist lawyers who sue the pants off the manufacturers for producing unsafe drugs.

I've opposed capital punishment because I don't like the idea of any govt. exercising the power of life and death. I like very limited and weak govt. But mghz suggested that we eat the condemned, and the idea strikes me as very sensible. It's a way of fighting hunger and providing a varied diet at the same time.

I like fresh food. So perhaps the best approach is to allow the condemned to be literally torn apart by a crowd of gourmets.
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Define proper.
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Trained marksmen who will hit the designated target (between the eyes, through the heart) so there is little time of rolling around on the floor dying a slow death. Of course, tradition would have you have 3 times the trained marksmen some of who fire blanks. If you are going to administer capital punishment it should be quick and painless. And a one shot deal. If you give someone a lethal injection and somehow it does not kill the prisoner, that should be a get out of death row card.

As for the drug shortage, what do vets use to put animals to sleep? Perhaps they should use some of those drugs on prisoners.
 
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IdRatherBeSkiing said:
Trained marksmen who will hit the designated target (between the eyes, through the heart) so there is little time of rolling around on the floor dying a slow death. Of course, tradition would have you have 3 times the trained marksmen some of who fire blanks. If you are going to administer capital punishment it should be quick and painless. And a one shot deal. If you give someone a lethal injection and somehow it does not kill the prisoner, that should be a get out of death row card.

As for the drug shortage, what do vets use to put animals to sleep? Perhaps they should use some of those drugs on prisoners.
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Six of one, half a dozen of the other! :)
 
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