Death By Firing Squad...

[vta]

I had no idea these things even happened as recent as 1996, let alone is about to happen again... Wow.

A long article so I won't post the entire thing here...

Link

Salt Lake City, Utah (CNN) -- The executioner says he was eager to join the firing squad. Not because he was familiar with the 1996 case, or felt the need to deliver justice for a raped and murdered little girl. It wasn't even because his high school classmate was raped and killed just before graduation. So why did he do it? Why choose to join four other men in executing a convicted murderer?

"How often does this come along?" he says, "... 100 percent justice."
It's been more than 14 years since guns were last fired in Utah's execution chamber. But later this month, they may sound again, reviving a debate about the death penalty and the methods used to carry it out.

 

[tomson75]

....before this turns into a political mess....

Hell yeah!

I think that's how I'd want to go out if I had a choice in execution.

 

[Maikeru-sama]

Just read the portion posted in the thread, but I wonder if some of the men on the firing squad will be given fake bullets? I think I read that they do this, so no one on the firing squad ever truly knows who shot the fatal bullet.

Anywho, it is pretty shocking that these types of situations exist.

I would rather die by lethal injection if I had my choice.

 

[vta]

....before this turns into a political mess....

Hell yeah!

I think that's how I'd want to go out if I had a choice in execution.

Just read the portion posted in the thread, but I wonder if some of the men on the firing squad will be given fake bullets? I think I read that they do this, so no one on the firing squad ever truly knows who shot the fatal bullet.

Anywho, it is pretty shocking that these types of situations exist.

I would rather die by lethal injection if I had my choice.

:laugh2:

Interesting to see the two choices already considered (pondered I mean). Yeah, I'd rather die calmly too, but being on this side of the equation, I'd say a child rapist/killer deserves to be shot, which is who the subject of this is. {Edit: I'm wrong, this guy killed an attorney, the 96 one was a child killer}.

 

[CowboyWay]

Just read the portion posted in the thread, but I wonder if some of the men on the firing squad will be given fake bullets? I think I read that they do this, so no one on the firing squad ever truly knows who shot the fatal bullet.

Anywho, it is pretty shocking that these types of situations exist.

I would rather die by lethal injection if I had my choice.

5 guys. 4 are given live rounds and they all fire at once.



I do have a big problem with this though. I just think its too easy of a death for these scumbags. I'd like to see it take a little longer myself.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I don't believe that this can still happen. This guy must have been convicted prior to the changing of the Laws.

However, I do know that even when this Law was still on the books, the convicted person had the choice of how they wanted to be executed. This person must have chosen to be shot.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

I don't believe that this can still happen. This guy must have been convicted prior to the changing of the Laws.

However, I do know that even when this Law was still on the books, the convicted person had the choice of how they wanted to be executed. This person must have chosen to be shot.

From the article:

Utah was given permission to use the firing squad as a method of execution by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1879, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a non-profit organization. Although one other state -- Oklahoma -- currently allows firing squad as a secondary method of execution, it can be used only if lethal injection and electrocution are ruled unconstitutional.

Utah lawmakers outlawed the firing squad in 2004, but a handful of death-row inmates who had already chosen it as their execution method were grandfathered in after family members of murder victims begged the state Legislature not to open another door for appeals, lengthening what in many cases has become at least a 20-year wait for justice.

Texas has the firing squad too, it's just administered a little differently.

It's called "Castle Law".

 

[Dallas]

I don't believe that this can still happen. This guy must have been convicted prior to the changing of the Laws.

However, I do know that even when this Law was still on the books, the convicted person had the choice of how they wanted to be executed. This person must have chosen to be shot.

In Utah you can choose how you wish to be executed. He chose to have a firing squad.

 

[Maikeru-sama]

Being shot is one of the last options I would consider.

Actually, I don't know what is worse, the gas chamber or the firing squad.

It's kind of that danged if you do, danged if you don't kind of situations :laugh2: .

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Being shot is one of the last options I would consider.

Actually, I don't know what is worse, the gas chamber or the firing squad.

I'll take being shot through the heart by 4 marksmen over inhaling a gas that essentialy suffocates you.

 

[CowboyWay]

I'll take being shot through the heart by 4 marksmen over inhaling a gas that essentialy suffocates you.

No doubt about it. They are getting off light by getting shot.

 

[tomson75]

I'll take being shot through the heart by 4 marksmen over inhaling a gas that essentialy suffocates you.

I would too, but they say that there is actually a euphoric feeling to suffocation/drowning. FWIW. Doesn't sound so bad.

 

[Dallas]

I'll take being shot through the heart by 4 marksmen over inhaling a gas that essentialy suffocates you.

Sign me up.


I might not take a heart shot if I were on that squad. It would be hard for me to hold over center mass when you know the whole time you would want to double-tap the sickos head.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

I would too, but they say that there is actually a euphoric feeling to suffocation/drowning. FWIW. Doesn't sound so bad.

I've come about as close to drowning as I'd ever want to experience, and it really wasn't that bad other than the lung-burn from holding my breath.

I vividly recall being lucid right up to the point of exhaling what little air there was left in my lungs and inhaling that 1st gulp of water as I went unconscious. I was pulled up about 10-15 seconds after that, and almost as soon as my head broke water, I went into that involuntary gasping mode.

I'm thinking a gas doing the same thing to your lungs, wouldn't be so painless.

 

[Jon88]

I would too, but they say that there is actually a euphoric feeling to suffocation/drowning. FWIW. Doesn't sound so bad.

I've never heard that.

I know your brain has no pain nerves in it so you don't feel much pain if shot in the head. I've heard it's a lot of pressure.

This thread is getting very morbid.

 

[Maikeru-sama]

What bodily organ does Gas attack if you are executed via Gas Chamber? Lungs, Heart?

Or does is it contain a type of poison that competes with oxygen in the bloodstream?

I still don't think I would choose to be shot. I would be too scared that they would miss the heart the first few times. To me, that is like someone beheading you and not getting it right on the first swing.

No thanks!!

 

[SaltwaterServr]

if I had my choice.

My choice? 5 bikini models in a hot tub. First one to give me a heart attack wins.

I do have a big problem with this though. I just think its too easy of a death for these scumbags. I'd like to see it take a little longer myself.

Shoot him in the gut. Let him bleed out.

 

[Jon88]

This may be an odd question but what bodily organ does Gas attack if you are executed via Gas Chamber? Lungs, Heart?

Or does is it contain a type of poison that competes with oxygen in the bloodstream?

It probably shuts down your lungs and then your heart.

 

[Doomsday101]

If they gave me the choice I would choose death by old age. :laugh2:

 

[SaltwaterServr]

It probably shuts down your lungs and then your heart.

Probably attacks the nervous system blocking the brain's ability to send signals to the heart and lungs.

Pine Sol supposedly is what the gas chamber smells like. The movie Training Day mentioned it, but couldn't use "PineSol" in the dialogue for obvious marketing objections by SC Johnson Wax. "Pine Oil Heaven" is what Denzel calls it.