Idaho bill would bring back execution by firing squad

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho could bring back firing squads as a method of execution under legislation introduced by a panel of lawmakers Wednesday.

The state eliminated its never-used firing squad option in 2009, but has been unable to secure the drugs needed for lethal injection executions. Only Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina currently have laws allowing firing squads if other execution methods are unavailable, but a judge has put South Carolina's law on hold until a lawsuit challenging the method is resolved.

In the bill sponsored by Idaho Rep. Bruce Skaug, a Republican from Nampa, firing squads would be used when lethal injection isn't available. Skaug noted that the state canceled the planned execution of Gerald Pizzuto Jr. late last year after Idaho Department of Correction officials said they were unable to get the chemicals needed for lethal injection.

Pizzuto has spent more than three decades on death row for his role in the 1985 slayings of two gold prospectors.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/idaho-bill-bring-back-execution-203020069.html

Idaho's doing a lot of crazy shit these days.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Isn't Idaho home to Militia groups

As well as armed survivalists?

[Celerity]

2. Yes, but unfortunately it is far from alone. It is a stronghold for that though.

[jmowreader]

3. Lethal injection should have never been implemented

The only people who can properly perform a lethal injection execution are medical personnel - and codes of ethics prevent them from doing that. Every single lethal injection ever performed has been botched in that the first drug wears off while the second one is working, so you've got a guy lying on a table who can't breathe and undergoes unbelievable agony while the third one is doing its job.

Sorry, YMBL, but a firing squad is a LOT more humane than lethal injection. They shoot the guy in the chest, he dies instantly. If they've GOT to have execution in this rathole of a state, that's the kind they need to use.

I'm only surprised they didn't bring back hanging. That's how we used to do it here.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. While I am staunchly opposed to the death penalty in ALL cases, if you must kill in my name . . . .

. . . . this is probably the most humane way.

[cyclonefence]

5. Back in the Stone Age,

Gary Gilmore, a murderer who was to be executed in one of those Western states--probably Iowa--requested that he be killed by a firing squad.

I don't think at that time that Iowa (or wherever) offered this kind of choice, and the executions were carried out by electric chair.

His request was granted, in part because was a Mormon. The LDS has a doctrine of Blood Atonement, whereby Jesus's forgiveness is not enough to save you; the sinner must shed his own blood on the ground as a sacrifice toward heavenly absolution.

I agree that being shot by a firing squad is quick and therefore (I hope) less painful. But you never hear anyone talking about the guillotine any more. IIRC it was invented by a doctor who wanted to help relieve the pain of the person to be killed.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. It was Utah

[Coventina]

7. You are correct, his family name was Guillotine. His descendants abandonded it.

After the Terror.

[In It to Win It]

8. Idaho is on a roll