https://news.yahoo.com/utah-revives-plan-executions-firing-squad-202248379.html

I can see that there are many pro's and con's, but when accurately applied can be quick.

They mention shoot thru the heart, knowing that being shot in non lethal forms is painful, wouldn't this be the least humane place to be shot?  Wouldn't shot thru the brain be better?

I would propose 6 low power rounds, 22's are known to enter 1 side and bounce around till spent.  3 to the head, 3 to the heart should do the trick.  Computer aimed and silenced to keep the victim from jumping.

As an alternate, self administered drug overdose.  Give them all the heroine they want.  Sooner or later they'll do the deed themselves.  At least they'll die a lot happier.

Of the dogs we'd had to have euthanized, I only actually watched one, a St. Bernard who was too sick and too big to get into the car to take to the vet's office.  I've wondered the same thing about the drug that vets use.  This euthanasia was totally painless as far as I saw, and very quick.  BUT, due to the size of the dog, around 150 pounds, the vet gave the dog the shot straight into the heart, rather than in a blood vessel elsewhere.
No way could you do that to a human.

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They mention shoot thru the heart, knowing that being shot in non lethal forms is painful, wouldn't this be the least humane place to be shot?  Wouldn't shot thru the brain be better?

Yea it would, but find 7 people, today,  that have the skill to shoot that good !

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I would propose 6 low power rounds, 22's are known to enter 1 side and bounce around till spent.  3 to the head, 3 to the heart should do the trick.  Computer aimed and silenced to keep the victim from jumping.

Computer Aimed.  (See Above)

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OMG,  Can  NOT  do that.  It would be  ILLEGAL !!!!!!

Perhaps, a, 'Town Square', hanging, where EVERYONE can SEE.
So it , 'again', serves the fundamental purpose,
of,  DETERRING, Crime.

Rather than be shrouded, hid, and covered.

If done properly, the "lethal injection" is actually an anesthaetic followed by a substance such as curare.

You are literally "put to sleep".

The problem is you are darn wide awake when they stab you the first time.

A shot through the heart is painful and dooms you to a slow Death, because the heart is made of four ventricles, and each shot will only maim one.

A shot through the head is what you are after; one, quick shot.
It doesn't hurt, you wouldn't even hear it because the proper cartridge would be hypersonic.
You just stand/sit there, and then you're gone.
Amen.

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I don't see your objection here, "computer aimed"

No objection to it. Perhaps it wasn't clearly stated.
Because, of, 'perceived lack of human skill', it would Have to be computer.

The, 'Illegal' part.  Tong in cheek.
Just thinking what the , 'tree huggers' would say !

The chemical ( drug) deaths are only now an issue because no company wants to be associated with the drugs. That was what happend in at least one latter case ( last year) the "normal drug" was not available so another was used, and the result was not the quiet quick sleep death.

My mother ( a staunch Democrat) is very much for a public death as noted above. The death penalty needs to be quick to come and public in order for the public to "feel" that a crime deserving of such was officiated and law and order restored.  With long drawn out "death row" vicitms move on and public "forgets" the crime and only the death is fresh. Those of such a bend of course want no-one put death no matter what, they are afforded years to lament and make public their position.

As to the method of the death. I am VERY certain.. many methods could be done in modern way that would apease most. hanging works, as long as all the proper measurements are made. I dont favor the electric chair, so much. Drugs.. but that sure seems an easy way out for murder or rapist.. who dont often such a courtesy to their victims.  Firing squad works, Though as pointed out above, it really doesnt need to a proper gun. A computer controlled barrel of minimal caliber to the back of the head... pretty dern quick.  Carbon monoxide... how hard would that be?

As for being or not for the death penalty. I am currently for it. With current law as it is, we have made punishments not too awful, life in prison... free cable, AC/ heat for free for life? Pretty sweet for somebody that has to have killed either many times or in a really horrible way.

Ed L. wrote on 11/22/14 at 13:51:19:


Do you remember the "Running Man"?





It was based in the year 2019.  

Lots of suggestions, (good ones), on how to make it work.

However, I believe, we have, LOST, the “Penalty”,  Part!

Understand the, ‘need to be sure’, but after that, need, is satisfied.
The Death PENALTY,   Needs to be a,  PENALTY !
Not hidden away!

Best quote, from the Sheriff in AZ,
when he is lambasted for making convects, WORK,
is:   “Ya don’t like it, Don’t Come Back” !