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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWow! South Carolina is bringing back the firing squad
For executions. We really are a bunch of savages here in Murica.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/firing-squad-executions-greenlight-south-211855012.html
jimfields33
(15,793 posts)I think Id pick this. They put a purlap bag over your head. For some reason they dont with the other two options. I dont want to watch myself dying quite frankly.
Kingofalldems
(38,454 posts)jimfields33
(15,793 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,454 posts)And how many times are you going to post the same thing?
jimfields33
(15,793 posts)mvd
(65,173 posts)I mean, if they very must have that execution.
bif
(22,700 posts)mvd
(65,173 posts)All in the name of their religion.
Chainfire
(17,536 posts)The more we are changing the more we are regressing. It is what happens when the bad people take over.
bif
(22,700 posts)jimfields33
(15,793 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,855 posts)of volunteers for the squad.
I also wonder how death penalty advocates reconcile that with the "commandment" about not killing.
Celerity
(43,349 posts)if he was an actual deity, and also a deity of the type their lunacy leads them to identify him as being
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)I think I would prefer that over the poison slow drip
ChazII
(6,204 posts)During South Carolinas lengthy debate, Democratic state Sen. Dick Harpootlian a prosecutor-turned-criminal-defense lawyer introduced the firing squad option. He argued that it presented the least painful execution method available.
The death penalty is going to stay the law here for a while, Harpootlian said. If were going to have it, it ought to be humane.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Kaleva
(36,298 posts)ChazII
(6,204 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)But really, we should get rid of the DP.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)The first drip paralyses you. Still conscious and aware as you feel you are eaten inside by acid and suffocating.
MuseRider
(34,108 posts)I think I would rather do this than hang. Electric Chair? Nope. Slow poison? Nope.
It is a good thing that I cannot even think of lifting a pack of gum, I should not ever have to face that choice.
Face it, we are too barbaric to give this up. We LOVE a good revenge. (certainly not all of us and probably very very few of us here)
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)being a Libral would be a hanging offence.
dwayneb
(768 posts)It's the end goal of the Fascist Right. Re-elect Trump and we will witness America going down that path.
Celerity
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lame54
(35,287 posts)Didn't feel so great about it
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)That is for certain.
lame54
(35,287 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)I think some people in a firing squad have blanks so they have plausible deniability.
Lethal injection makes it look way too easy.
lame54
(35,287 posts)And come out feeling another
MuseRider
(34,108 posts)I do not know if it was the time in my life or the total of all the news and information or his presence in the news so much. I was just totally creeped out with the whole thing. So many dead for no real reason except he wanted to kill them. Now we are semi used to this. He got so much coverage then the movie and the books. I just was in my 20's and not really mature enough then to understand it, too busy with making my life.
Lethal injection looks too easy unless it messes up. It could be a horror for the person experiencing it. It could then become that horror for those doing it. You are right though, it IS too easy to kill people. I am anti death penalty so none of it seems proper to me.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)re:rittenhouse
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Shot at some black kids
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Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Medicalising execution doesn't make it better.
jimfields33
(15,793 posts)Demsrule86
(68,559 posts)I am completely against the death penalty...it horrifies me.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Takket
(21,564 posts)Lancero
(3,003 posts)Calculating
(2,955 posts)That's how I'd want to be executed.
maxsolomon
(33,329 posts)Not providing diversity.