Nancy Grace on proposal to bring back firing squads: ‘There’s no pretty way to die’

[geardaddy]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/16/nancy-grace-on-proposal-to-bring-back-firing-squads-theres-no-pretty-way-to-die/

Nancy Grace agreed that a proposal by a Wyoming lawmaker to bring back firing squads was worthy of consideration.

The HLN host said she understood why Republican State Sen. Bruce Burns introduced legislation endorsing firing squads as a backup to the state’s lethal injection method, rather than a costly gas chamber – which Wyoming does not currently have.

“There’s no pretty way to die,” Grace told CNN Brooke Baldwin on Wednesday. “If you agree that a jury should be given the alternative of a death penalty, it’s not – you know, it ain’t no tea party, Brooke. We’re talking about the death penalty.”


Grace said most states use a three-drug cocktail to put prisoners to death, and she said those drugs are becoming harder to obtain.

“There’s also fear that at some point, lethal injection may be declared cruel and inhuman, and that would make it unconstitutional,” she said.

But Grace agreed with Baldwin that firing squads are barbaric, noting that only two states – Oklahoma and Utah – currently permit their use in limited circumstances.

“Utah has limited their firing squad to people that were sentenced to it before 2004, so we’re really only talking about Oklahoma that even considers the firing squad right now,” she said.

Grace said that there were only three humane options for executing prisoners: lethal injection, gas chamber and firing squads.

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[Blue_Tires]

1. The thought of a firing squad is like porn to Nancy Grace...

[geardaddy]

5. Yes, her nostrils flare at an increased rate

when she thinks about it.

[Katashi_itto]

14. She always struck me as related to Gollum somehow

[RC]

2. Denying them health care is not humane?

Who knew?

Grace said that there were only three humane options for executing prisoners: lethal injection, gas chamber and firing squads.

Then why do we still deny health care to people walking around loose, because they don't have enough money to live healthy lives?

[warrant46]

3. She's sick

Mentally Ill

[jsr]

16. Remember Melinda Duckett

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace

[warrant46]

22. I remember that Suicide and this outrage too

From 2008 to 2011 the Caylee Anthony disappearance and the prosecution, trial and acquittal of her mother Casey Anthony on charges of murder of the child were a regular feature of the Nancy Grace show. She would reveal every new detail of the story.Her program is cited as having "almost single-handedly inflated the Anthony case from a routine local murder into a national obsession". Nancy Grace referred to Casey Anthony as the "tot mom," a phrase Elizabeth Flock in the Washington Post described as “almost derisive-sounding.”

The Nancy Grace audience more than doubled in the weeks after the start of the Anthony trial. David Carr wrote that Grace took her show to the trial scene in Orlando, Florida in order to “hurl invective from a close, intimate distance.” Grace expressed rage at Anthony's acquittal right after announcement of the verdict, saying: "Tot Mom's lies seem to have worked."

[City Lights]

4. We have become such a regressive nation.

[Shrike47]

6. She's right about one thing: there's no pretty way to execute people.

Who would volunteer to be on a firing squad? Do we want those people among us?

[Drahthaardogs]

26. After reading about the experiment in Ohio

Given a choice I would prefer the gun

[geomon666]

7. Fuck it, let's bring back crucifixions.

[geardaddy]

10. Crucifixion's a doddle.

[moondust]

25. Or the windlass!

[Iggo]

8. Bunch of sick motherfuckers...

...and she's definitely one of them.

[jsr]

18. Not just sick. Rabid.

[Demo_Chris]

9. All Capital Punishment is a horror, but if it were me I would prefer a firing squad...

In the sun, no blindfold.

[former9thward]

11. A firing squard kills instantly and without pain.

Unlike a gas chamber or lethal injection. So if you are going to have the death penalty it is the most humane. If I had to face that choice I would choose it in an instant.

[The Straight Story]

12. I recall someone executed this way back in the 70's

Made big news in the US for several reasons (at least I remember seeing it all over the news back then).

I suppose if there are choices than let the prisoner choose.

[geardaddy]

13. That was probably Gary Gilmore. n/t

[Journeyman]

15. Gary Gilmore in 1977 in Utah, for the murder of two people. . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gilmore

At the time, Utah had two methods of execution — firing squad or hanging. Believing a hanging could be botched, Gilmore chose the former, declaring, "I'd prefer to be shot."

When asked for any last words, Gilmore simply replied, "Let's do it."

As Gilmore was the first person in the United States executed since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, his story had immense cultural resonance at the time, and continues to influence the works of writers, artists and even advertisers to this day.

[MicaelS]

17. If we were really honest about Capital Punishment...

That is exactly that is how we should be doing it. Now it is too antiseptic. If we're going to execute people, then let's quit doing it behind closed doors at midnight away from all but a select few eyes. Do it in a public place at high noon, local time. It might change some people's mind.

And she is correct, "There’s no pretty way to die."

[geardaddy]

20. If we were really honest about capital punishment

then we'd revoke it nationwide.

[DirkGently]

19. Yes, clearly North Korea should be the model for our justice system.

[geardaddy]

21. +1

Or the PRC.

[rug]

33. PeTA would object.

[TroglodyteScholar]

23. Running in the wrong direction, Nancy

But with your level of vile blood thirst, this is no surprise.

Murdering a murderer, whatever the method, is not justice.

[CBGLuthier]

24. No pretty way to die. Nonsense

[Ikonoklast]

30. One thing always bothered me about that scene, and the eventual disposition of Sol's mortal remains.

Is Soylent Green Kosher?

[CBGLuthier]

31. Well, I do not believe they ever specifically prohibited it.

He did die painlessly, but I think blood is still part of the process, so no, probably not.

[LittleBlue]

27. How is she still on TV?

After her numerous instances of slander, she should have been sued off the air. If I recall she was also convicted of prosecutorial misconduct.

She's disgraced two professions, no way should she be on TV.

[BigDemVoter]

28. There is one thing that BEAST is right about. . . .

And it's that there is NO pretty way to die. . . . And that is just ONE more reason that the U.S. Government does NOT need to be in the business of killing its citizens!

[Initech]

29. George Carlin had a lot of great ideas for the death penalty:

[House of Roberts]

32. Nancy Grace is afraid if the alleged killers she sensationalizes

aren’t eligible for the death penalty, then her ratings might suffer. She only gets good ratings when a high-profile murder trial is ongoing.