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Shooting squads

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ECfreeski3
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i was just reading something on that dude who is trying to get his death penalty (by firing squad) on friday held off, and i wanted to see if anyone could give me a good reason why we would kill someone with a firing squad rather than, say, lethal injection? they only do it in utah but personally i feel like it's sort of an archaic way to kill someone.. and messy.

any thoughts?
Jun 17 2010 5:15PM
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Benson23
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Rednecks like tradition, and guns. Tradition + Murderer + Available guns =

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Jun 17 2010 5:16PM
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ECfreeski3
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yeah im pretty sure youre right, they get a choice. but still, why is it even a choice? and further, who on earth would rather be shot 4 times than get a lethal injection??
Jun 17 2010 5:17PM
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I_Am_Mod
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it's definately a more badass way to go then by getting some junk chemical injected into your veins....
Jun 17 2010 5:18PM
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Skittle.
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i was thinking the same thing when reading that article. maybe he is really afraid of needles?
Jun 17 2010 5:18PM
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Benson23
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I'd rather be shot, itd be super quick lethal injection would be scary as fuck waiting for the needle and feeling it go in. Fuck that shit.
Jun 17 2010 5:18PM
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ECfreeski3
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hahaha lots of solid answers so far
Jun 17 2010 5:19PM
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ECfreeski3
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imagine if you could choose any method you wanted the way you can choose your last dinner. like you could request to be buried up to your neck in sand, and have a cobra strike you right in the face, so you could see death coming at you..
Jun 17 2010 5:20PM
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Bryan*
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weird...
Jun 17 2010 5:20PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
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id rather not get to a point in my life where I have to think about that shit, makes me shiver...
Jun 17 2010 5:20PM
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ECfreeski3
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but i mean... people have been shot in the face/head and survived.. seems like a gamble sort of
Jun 17 2010 5:21PM
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ECfreeski3
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i thought it was the other way around, and only one had a blank so they could all think hey maybe i didnt shoot the dude
Jun 17 2010 5:22PM
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Benson23
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yeah but it would be a quick end, like 4 shots in the face/heart your done. Id rather be blindfolded not see a thing and get it done with. Ill never be put to death because im Canadian and were a little more humane, no offense. But seeing death coming on the tip of a needle would freak me the fuck out.
Jun 17 2010 5:22PM
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Stickity
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if i had to choose the way i die i'd choose dying naturally by not getting into shit with the law
Jun 17 2010 5:22PM
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ECfreeski3
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haha yeah, but youre right i didnt respond to what you said earlier, it definitely is cheap..
Jun 17 2010 5:24PM
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ECfreeski3
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imagine if theyd let you jump off an enormous cliff into the grand canyon or something. thats free besides maybe some gas money to get there..
Jun 17 2010 5:25PM
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ECfreeski3
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by the way that's a fucking creepy picture
Jun 17 2010 5:27PM
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freestyler540
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I would take lethal injection, if that substance is heroin
Jun 17 2010 5:28PM
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Inbred_Redneck
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Why wouldnt you want to go by firing squad?

If I had to choose over lethal injection, the noose, electric chair, or decapitation then firing squad definately sounds more appealing. Its quick, painless (for the most part) and there is zero suffering involved.

The chance of him not dying from 4 or 5 5.56 rounds at 15 yards to the torso/head is extremely low.

Plus bullets are cheap.
Jun 17 2010 5:46PM
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ECfreeski3
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same can be said for lethal injection right? what puts you off about the lethal injection?



by the way gas chamber seems like a weird one. i dont think id like that one.

this is a really morbid discussion sorry dudes
Jun 17 2010 5:48PM
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p-fo
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i know one thing for sure. i would hate to be in the firing squad. that would feel so shitty to be standing there knowing youre about to shoot some dude standing 20ft away, no matter what he may have done
Jun 17 2010 5:52PM
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TheMajesticLife
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i saw this on the news and what gonna happen:

   4 shooter behind a wall with  lookouts in it for the guns

    One shooter will have a blank in his gun

    there is a target over the prisoners heart

     and the prisoner will have a hood over his head

Jun 17 2010 7:45PM
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987321654hgfd
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They don't 100% know if lethal injection is painless. Also firing squad all your organs are intact and can be donated (besides your heart), I believe, but I'm not sure, that lethal injection destroys most if not all your organs.
Jun 17 2010 7:49PM
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Skittle.
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so why does one have a blank?
Jun 17 2010 7:51PM
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987321654hgfd
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So that each shooter can never be sure if they actually killed him.
Jun 17 2010 7:52PM
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Skittle.
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oh ok thanks
Jun 17 2010 7:53PM
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hue.
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somehow death by firing squad seem alot more barbaric than lethal injection
Jun 17 2010 7:56PM
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Thenowhereman42
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Me. Death by firing squad would be way cooler.
Jun 17 2010 7:57PM
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Polar_Beer
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Yeah definitely this. I would not ever want to be in this situation.
Jun 17 2010 8:01PM
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soulskier
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well, i'll most likely never be in the position to make that decision
but i hate needles and a shot to the head is a fairly instant way to go
Jun 17 2010 8:04PM
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Benson23
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this discussion is kinda disturbing btw, but firing squad all the way.
Jun 17 2010 9:24PM
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Bryan*
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i want to die a fun way like hitting an insane booter and float into so much pow and then just drown in so much pow i can breath and then die fast not painfully lol...
Jun 17 2010 9:28PM
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theblacktaco
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chosing ur way to die would be a nice way to go

maybe like skydive no parchute

summer set up into grand canyon

run through obsticle corse of lava

fight grizzly bears with your hands
Jun 17 2010 9:33PM
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Bukkakeskitrip
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i dont think drowning in snow/slow suffocation will be a slow death...yeah sure, cool way to go out. but not fast
Jun 17 2010 9:33PM
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_steffen_
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probably go with death by orgy
Jun 17 2010 9:37PM
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Legion
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really morbid discussion, but that made me lol
Jun 17 2010 9:42PM
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Dan.P
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This. this thread really needed that, i was getting real creeped
Jun 17 2010 9:46PM
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Bukkakeskitrip
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that pics messed up man
Jun 17 2010 9:47PM
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TheMajesticLife
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^ its kind of ironic you find it funny...your icon and name and all makes it kind of ironic...just sayin
Jun 17 2010 9:52PM
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Bukkakeskitrip
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yeah a bit hypocritical on my part
Jun 17 2010 9:55PM
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toominator
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maybe they could lend them to the producers of the Saw movies as stunt doubles.

nah fuck that. I wouldn't want to watch saw anymore if they did that.
Jun 17 2010 9:56PM
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SmokeyTheBear
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yeah there is evidence that lethal injection can actually be super painful
Jun 17 2010 9:58PM
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TheMajesticLife
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^ i was watching a special on prisoners on death row and one was complaining that they give you a certain amount of sedative to knock you out before they administer the Chlorophyll (i think its chlorophyll) , but he was scared he was bigger than the dose of sedative given that knocks you out. he was scared he would be able to feel the poison at work paralyzing him and all his organs failing. bcause the anesthetic is to low...scary stuff to think
Jun 17 2010 10:16PM
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BerkeleyD
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yeah if the drugs arnt administered in like the perfect amount the guy goes into cardiac arrest which is a super painful way to die
Jun 17 2010 10:19PM
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Bukkakeskitrip
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1.Sodium thiopental: ultra-short action barbiturate, an anaesthetic agent capable of rendering the offender unconscious in a few seconds.
2.Pancuronium: non-depolarizing muscle relaxant, causes complete, fast and sustained paralysis of the skeletal striated muscles, including the diaphragm and the rest of the respiratory muscles; this would eventually cause death by asphyxiation.
3.Potassium chloride: stops the heart, and thus causes death by cardiac arrest

fuck getting the middle one
Jun 17 2010 10:21PM
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BerkeleyD
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also I heard they put the needle in your penis hole
Jun 17 2010 10:23PM
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TheMajesticLife
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the middle one was the one that the prisoner was afraid of getting because he thought he would feel all his bones breaking.
Jun 17 2010 10:25PM
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Skittle.
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pretty sure that would be considered cruel and unusual punishment
Jun 17 2010 10:26PM
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.Duncan.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65G6F620100617?type=domesticNews



Here is one of the articles
Jun 17 2010 10:34PM
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denali.*
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In washington prisoners still have the option to die by hanging.  Some prisoner requested to and they wouldn't let him because he was too overweight and the hanging would decapitate him, which they considered cruel and unusual punishment... his execution was pushed way back because of the whole controversy trial thing though, which was probably the point of the whole thing.
Jun 17 2010 10:40PM
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ECfreeski3
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i was just looking at something on the subject, and actually, the prospect of getting to be in the squad is so popular to the officers of the dept that they have to have a lottery to see who gets to do it... talk about rednecks

Jun 18 2010 1:28AM
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