Wow! South Carolina is bringing back the firing squad

[bif]

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]

1. If I ever had the misfortune of getting the death penalty,

I think I’d pick this. They put a purlap bag over your head. For some reason they don’t with the other two options. I don’t want to watch myself dying quite frankly.

[Kingofalldems]

22. Way to miss the point.

[jimfields33]

25. Post 9 is interesting.

[Kingofalldems]

26. No it's not. Non responsive.

And how many times are you going to post the same thing?

[jimfields33]

28. I don't know.

[mvd]

2. What's next for them, beheading?

I mean, if they very must have that execution.

[bif]

4. Maybe stoning them to death?

[mvd]

6. Wouldn't put it past them

All in the name of their “religion.”

[Chainfire]

3. I don't know why this is surprising. Republicans want to bring back hanging.

The more we are changing the more we are regressing. It is what happens when the bad people take over.

[bif]

5. Republicans...building a bridge to the 12th century!

[jimfields33]

20. See number 9

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. The sad thing is there will probably be hundreds, maybe thousands

of volunteers for the squad.

I also wonder how death penalty advocates reconcile that with the "commandment" about not killing.

[Celerity]

14. they absolutely believe that baby jeebus would have been a gunner if guns were there and

if he was an actual deity, and also a deity of the type their lunacy leads them to identify him as being

[alphafemale]

8. if it ever came to it for whatever reason

I think I would prefer that over the poison slow drip

[ChazII]

9. The paragraphs below are from the link provided

During South Carolina’s 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 we’re going to have it, it ought to be humane.”

[Spider Jerusalem]

31. Hanging is more humane, if done properly, so is beheading, either is better than firing squad (n/t)

[Kaleva]

34. Shooting out of a cannon is also quick

[ChazII]

40. Use a new rope. n/t

[NYC Liberal]

10. I'd take a firing squad over lethal injection if it were me.

But really, we should get rid of the DP.

[alphafemale]

19. Same here.

The first drip paralyses you. Still conscious and aware as you feel you are eaten inside by acid and suffocating.

[MuseRider]

11. Makes me think of Gary Gilmore.

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]

13. If it were up to certain repugs, Libral's WOULD have to face that choice because

being a Libral would be a hanging offence.

[dwayneb]

15. That my friend is coming

It's the end goal of the Fascist Right. Re-elect Trump and we will witness America going down that path.

[Celerity]

18. The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes

Label: Anchor (2) – ANC 1043
Format:
Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: 12 Aug 1977
Genre: Rock
Style: New Wave, Punk

[lame54]

23. Afterwards those who fired the guns...

Didn't feel so great about it

[alphafemale]

29. Gary Gilmore enjoyed killing people

That is for certain.

[lame54]

30. Don't recall anybody questioning that

[alphafemale]

32. Carrying out a death penalty is supposed to be hard.

I think some people in a firing squad have blanks so they have plausible deniability.

Lethal injection makes it look way too easy.

[lame54]

33. They volunteer feeling one way...

And come out feeling another

[MuseRider]

37. All I know is Gary Gilmore haunted me.

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]

12. The repug wetdream...getting to shoot someone with impunity

re:rittenhouse

[alphafemale]

36. Zimmerman others. What was the name of the Subway vigilante from sometime in the 80's?

Shot at some black kids

Bernard Goetz

Google never forges.

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. How is this worse than lethal injection?

Medicalising execution doesn't make it better.

[jimfields33]

21. It's explained in post 9

[Demsrule86]

17. Well they are savages in South Carolina for sure...it is chilling.

I am completely against the death penalty...it horrifies me.

[BlackSkimmer]

35. Apparently it was a Dem who has introduced this option.

[Takket]

24. having heard what lethal injuction does, tihs actually feels much more humane

[Lancero]

27. Kinda redundant with how trigger happy cops are these days.

[Calculating]

38. What's the issue

That's how I'd want to be executed.

[maxsolomon]

39. They should be ending Capital Punishment.

Not providing diversity.