Execution by Firing Squad making a comeback

[Delta4Embassy]

The Firing Squad Makes a Comeback - The Daily Beast

"In fact, Utah is not actually the first state to consider alternatives to lethal injection. Last month, the Wyoming House comparatively quietly voted to reinstate the firing squad, with the stipulation that the prisoner must be made unconscious beforehand—all this even though Wyoming’s death row is empty. Oklahoma has proposed reversion to the gas chamber with the use of nitrogen gas to starve the body of oxygen.

Why is all of this happening? Because of a nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs."


My own suggestion is simple, efficient, and solves multiple issues. If the drugs used for lethal injection are expensive, in short supply, and subject to failure, use heroin seized by police sitting in an evidence vault somewhere. Free, readily available, and in a large enough dose absolutely certain to kill.

 

[NLT]

The Firing Squad Makes a Comeback - The Daily Beast

"In fact, Utah is not actually the first state to consider alternatives to lethal injection. Last month, the Wyoming House comparatively quietly voted to reinstate the firing squad, with the stipulation that the prisoner must be made unconscious beforehand—all this even though Wyoming’s death row is empty. Oklahoma has proposed reversion to the gas chamber with the use of nitrogen gas to starve the body of oxygen.

Why is all of this happening? Because of a nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs."


My own suggestion is simple, efficient, and solves multiple issues. If the drugs used for lethal injection are expensive, in short supply, and subject to failure, use heroin seized by police sitting in an evidence vault somewhere. Free, readily available, and in a large enough dose absolutely certain to kill.

Your fellow libturds would not got for death by lethal herion injection. I say hang them, dont waste a bullet.

 

[waltky]

Potassium acetate used instead of potassium chloride...

Wrong drug used in Oklahoma execution
Oct. 9, 2015 - An execution was called off last week after discovery an incorrect drug may have been used in a January execution.

Autopsy reports indicate Oklahoma corrections officials used the wrong drug in the execution of Charles Warner, who complained of a burning sensation after its administration. Autopsy information indicated Warner's execution involved the use of potassium acetate and not potassium chloride, which called for in the state's lethal injection protocol. The same incorrect drug was delivered to corrections officials for use in the planned Sept. 30 execution of Richard Glossip. Gov. Mary Fallin called off Glossip's execution with a last-minute indefinite stay after she learned of the discrepancy.

Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol involves the injection of three drugs: the sedative midazolam; a paralytic, vecuronium bromide; and a paralytic; and potassium chloride, which stops the heart. It does not include potassium acetate. After the discovery of the incorrect drug, state Attorney General Scott Pruitt received approval from the state Court of Criminal Appeals to delay the execution of Glossip and two others scheduled for October to give the state time to investigate the matter. Richard Patton, director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, said the vendor of the drugs informed him potassium acetate and potassium chloride are "medically interchangeable," but nonetheless asked Fallin to postpone Glossip's execution.

The controversy comes as Oklahoma -- under fire for a botched execution in 2014 -- has become the focus of the capital punishment issue in the United States. Dale Baich, attorney for Warner and Glossip, said in a statement, "We cannot trust Oklahoma to get it right or to tell the truth." He said revelations about the use of potassium acetate "yet again raises serious questions about the ability of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to carry out executions."

Wrong drug used in Oklahoma execution

 

[Katzndogz]

The Firing Squad Makes a Comeback - The Daily Beast

"In fact, Utah is not actually the first state to consider alternatives to lethal injection. Last month, the Wyoming House comparatively quietly voted to reinstate the firing squad, with the stipulation that the prisoner must be made unconscious beforehand—all this even though Wyoming’s death row is empty. Oklahoma has proposed reversion to the gas chamber with the use of nitrogen gas to starve the body of oxygen.

Why is all of this happening? Because of a nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs."


My own suggestion is simple, efficient, and solves multiple issues. If the drugs used for lethal injection are expensive, in short supply, and subject to failure, use heroin seized by police sitting in an evidence vault somewhere. Free, readily available, and in a large enough dose absolutely certain to kill.

I thought of that too. A massive hot shot. It ensures a very peaceful death.

 

[bucs90]

Just use a damn .50 Cal to the head. One shot. Over. Cost about $3 per bullet.

 

[my2¢]

I always think of Gary Gilmore's firing squad execution in Utah as being the last but since then these have not been as publicized..
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[Kondor3]

...I say hang them, dont waste a bullet.

Actually, setting up and maintaining a gallows, and hiring experienced hangmen - is all probably far more expensive than a few bullets.

 

[saintmichaeldefendthem]

The shot would feel like a baseball bat to the chest but then it would be over. Blood rapidly drains from the head and unconsciousness takes over. It isn't like the torture of lethal injection where a person is likely very aware of his cardio respiratory system freezing up.

 

[Kondor3]

Just use a damn .50 Cal to the head. One shot. Over. Cost about $3 per bullet.

Too Chinese...

 

[waltky]

Shortage of drugs stays Ohio executions...

Lethal drugs shortage delays Ohio executions until 2017
Monday 19th October, 2015 - The scheduled executions of a dozen inmates in Ohio have been put off until at least 2017 as the state struggles to obtain supplies of lethal injection drugs to comply with its new execution protocol, the prisons department said Monday.

According to a release from the state's Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC), the next execution in Ohio is now set for January 2017. "DRC continues to seek all legal means to obtain the drugs necessary to carry out court ordered executions, but over the past few years it has become exceedingly difficult to secure those drugs because of severe supply and distribution restrictions," the statement said. "The new dates are designed to provide DRC additional time necessary to secure the required execution drugs." The result, according to the DRC, is that execution dates for 11 inmates scheduled to die next year and one for early 2017 were all pushed into ensuing years through warrants of reprieve issued by Governor John Kasich.

More than two dozen executions are scheduled nearly four years in the future, to August 2019. Ohio last put someone to death in January 2014. The state decided to stop using the two-drug regimen of midazolam and hydromorphone. That drug combination was last used in January 2014 on Dennis McGuire, a convicted murderer, who choked, gasped and writhed for 26 minutes before succumbing. The next execution was scheduled for Jan 21 when Ronald Phillips was to die for raping and killing his girlfriend's three-year-old daughter in Akron in 1993. Phillips' execution was rescheduled for Jan 12, 2017.

Ohio, like many states, was forced to find new execution drugs after European-based manufacturers banned US prisons from using their drugs in executions -- among them, Danish-based Lundbeck, which manufactures pentobarbital. Last week the attorney general's office in Oklahoma announced no executions would be scheduled until at least 2016 as the office investigates why the state used the wrong drug during a lethal injection in January and nearly did so again in September. Earlier this month an Arkansas judge halted the upcoming executions of eight death row inmates who are challenging a new law that allows the state to withhold any information that could publicly identify the manufacturers or sellers of its execution drugs.

Lethal drugs shortage delays Ohio executions until 2017

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Evangelical Group: Redemption Possible Even on Death Row
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - The National Association of Evangelicals is formally adjusting its position after 40 years of favoring capital punishment. The new resolution does not reverse the earlier decision made in 1973 in favor of the death penalty, but it acknowledges those evangelicals who oppose it.

"The revision is more of a 'pivot' as it pertains to creating space for those that may disagree with the death penalty," Rev. Samuel Rodriguez with the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and board member of the NAE said.

"For evangelicals, one of the core tenets of our faith is that no one is beyond redemption," Shane Claiborne, an activist from Philadelphia told the Washington Post. "The death penalty raises one of the most fundamental questions for evangelicals: Do we have the right to rob someone of the possibility of redemption?"

"Millennial Christians have a more holistic life optic than baby boomer Christians," Rodriguez said. "There's a shift demographically, there's a shift idealogically. You see many conservative, Republican governors even in America today reconsidering the death penalty. So it's definitely not a liberal or conservative issue. It's more of a 21st century Christian Evangelical ethos as it pertains to the continuity of a (pro-) life platform."

Evangelical Group: Redemption Possible Even on Death Row - US - CBN News - Christian News 24-7 - CBN.com

 

[LuckyDuck01!]

If we execute Muslim terrorists, we must inform the terrorist that just prior to being shot, the bullets will be dipped in pigs blood, his/her head will be removed immediately afterward and he/she will be buried vertically, feet up (rather than facing east).