re: MS wants to bring back firing squads

Electrocution is a hideous method.

Just give them a big dose of fentanyl. If it's good enough for Prince it's good enough for a criminal.

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to add firing squad, electrocution and gas chamber

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¡¡TRUMP ES HITLER!!

It never made sense for executions to be done in ultra secrecy.

The inmate should get to choose his method of death.

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Chit no. Wayyyy to many things can and do go wrong in hangings.

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Maybe in Tombstone, 1885, but professionally administered, I think it would be okay.

It's better than being zapped in the chair or the relatively slower gas chamber choking.

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The inmate should get to choose his method of death.

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... And give him the opposite of what he chooses

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But I don't think that's how it's done. It's more like a bunch of dudes pointing rifles at your chest from a distance. I think they aim for the heart. It's kinda brutal to think about.

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Firing Squad

On March 23, 2015, firing squad was reauthorized in Utah as a viable method of execution if, and only if the state was unable to obtain the drugs necessary to carry out a lethal injection execution. Prior to this reauthorization, firing squad was only a method of execution in Utah if chosen by an inmate before lethal injection became the sole means of execution. The most recent execution by this method was that of Ronnie Gardner. By his own choosing, Gardner was executed by firing squad in Utah on June 17, 2010. For execution by this method, the inmate is typically bound to a chair with leather straps across his waist and head, in front of an oval-shaped canvas wall. The chair is surrounded by sandbags to absorb the inmate's blood. A black hood is pulled over the inmate's head. A doctor locates the inmate's heart with a stethoscope and pins a circular white cloth target over it. Standing in an enclosure 20 feet away, five shooters are armed with .30 caliber rifles loaded with single rounds. One of the shooters is given blank rounds. Each of the shooters aims his rifle through a slot in the canvas and fires at the inmate. (Weisberg, 1991) The prisoner dies as a result of blood loss caused by rupture of the heart or a large blood vessel, or tearing of the lungs. The person shot loses consciousness when shock causes a fall in the supply of blood to the brain. If the shooters miss the heart, by accident or intention, the prisoner bleeds to death slowly. (Hillman, 1992 and Weisberg, 1991)

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the inmate is typically bound to a chair with leather straps across his waist and head, in front of an oval-shaped canvas wall. The chair is surrounded by sandbags to absorb the inmate's blood. A black hood is pulled over the inmate's head. A doctor locates the inmate's heart with a stethoscope and pins a circular white cloth target over it. Standing in an enclosure 20 feet away, five shooters are armed with .30 caliber rifles loaded with single rounds. One of the shooters is given blank rounds. Each of the shooters aims his rifle through a slot in the canvas and fires at the inmate. (Weisberg, 1991) The prisoner dies as a result of blood loss caused by rupture of the heart or a large blood vessel, or tearing of the lungs. The person shot loses consciousness when shock causes a fall in the supply of blood to the brain. If the shooters miss the heart, by accident or intention, the prisoner bleeds to death slowly

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^^^^ that sounds fricking terrible.

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... And give him the opposite of what he chooses

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We love our constitution here don't we

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The state faces lawsuits claiming the drugs it plans to use would violate constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.

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We've really jumped the shark here.

I'm not an advocate for the death penalty, but our nation is quite soft when it comes to capital punishment. It's not like other parts of the word where they put you to death within hours or days of conviction. We don't maim you for stealing or other minor crimes.

Capital punishment is usually reserved for the most heinous crimes. Even then, courts rarely sentence people to die. When they do, the prisoner typically lives for decades while waiting on appeals.

The alternative drugs seem to be less efficient and there are "cruelty" questions because the seemingly unconscious person may flinch. You're putting someone to death, not sending them off into a blissful sleep. This process is still far more humane than what happens in other parts of the world when people are sentenced to die.