Idaho is bringing back the firing squad
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Damn.
Idaho is tough on getting rid of workers.
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This belongs on the Politics Board.
In the bad old days, they stopped using firing squads because most of the men doing the shooting were terrible shots. So the poor bastard being executed wouldn't get a quick end, they'd take 20 agonizing non-lethal shots before expiring. It was pretty horrible.
sharenawwwww pussy, its pretty badass! this dude killed a bunch of hot girls he deserves worse!!
shareWhen they murdered their victims, did they make sure it was a humane and painless death?
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share0%, the death penalty isn't vengeance. If you're the type of person who needs vengeance, then you probably have your own mental health demons you need to be working your way through.
shareOkay, armchair psychologist.
Sorry, but if someone killed someone I love, I'd want vengeance and I'd bet you would too.
Sure that is understandable, but the personal feelings of crime victims cannot dictate the administration of justice. If the state chose to intentionally inflict pain and suffering when more humane methods of execution are available, I think the courts would consider that an 8th Amendment violation and put a stop to it.
shareGood. And make it quick. No appeals, no last meal, no good-byes. Nothing that the victims didn't get.
shareEveryone eats a last meal before they die and maybe sometimes a victim says goodbye to someone.
shareReally? When someone is going to murder someone, they ask what they want for their last meal? And let them contact loved ones?
Do the victims get years of appeals before being murdered?
Suppose you had a burger and fries for lunch.
Then just before you leave you say goodbye to your children, husband, sister or whomever you might have been talking to on the phone or in person.
As you are driving somewhere your car gets hit and you die.
There.
You had a last meal and you said goodbye to loved ones.
See?
Everyone, including victims, will eat a last meal and at times they get to say goodbye to loved ones before they check out.
Two very different circumstances. You might have eaten spaghetti but if you KNEW it would be your last meal, you would have chosen something else. You tell your loved ones, "I'll see you later" because you expect to go home. If you knew, you'd take more time.
And in the above examples, person did nothing to deserve to die. They did not willingly take the life of another person.
Murderer gets to appeal time after time. They get to choose what they want as the last meal. They are allowed to take time for the known final goodbye.
Victims do not get anything like that.
I know but I am pointing out how everyone gets a last meal and in most circumstances to say goodbye.
It does happen.
So the condemned does get the same things their victim did.
It's nowhere near the same thing.
If you can't see it, there's no point in talking about it further.
But then the sentence should be carried out immediately. They die in whatever they were wearing when sentenced. Their last meal was the last thing they ate before sentencing. And their good-bye was when they left home that day to go kill.
Everyone gets a last meal.
What about that don't you get?
The difference is that one is knowingly getting it while another does not.
What is similar is that for everyone they choose what they want to eat.
I dunno why you or anyone else should have a problem with someone being put to death having the chance to do a couple of last things when being murdered by the state is bad enough.
It's actually a more noble way to die than by lethal injection or electrocution.
sharebut very messy
shareNot with a decent squad. Seriously, the impact zone should be not more than a radius of 2 inches, if they hired competent marksman, which could be easily tested beforehand.
I think it's a great idea. It also renders the execution more socially integrated, provides a bit more social representation to the execution. It is, after all, a social verdict.
Here is an example :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmE1lbr_VMI
Are they going to use these?
https://www.amazon.com/Schylling-PG-Potato-Gun/dp/B0006GK8H8
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