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Utah lawmaker: Bring back firing squad executions

I don't see how it's any more cruel than lethal injection. Far quicker and humane in my view, if not a bit outdated.
 
a351 said:
I don't see how it's any more cruel than lethal injection. Far quicker and humane in my view, if not a bit outdated.
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I wonder if the firing squad asks the convict if he or she has any last requests? like a smoke or something. I wonder if a blindfold is offered, I wonder if the convict has the option of taking it in the back?
 
AJiveMan said:
I wonder if the firing squad asks the convict if he or she has any last requests? like a smoke or something. I wonder if a blindfold is offered, I wonder if the convict has the option of taking it in the back?
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Last request ~ Yes
Blindfold ~Yes
In the back ~No

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I think this is a good Idea:
Very quick and accurate.
Inexpensive.
Guaranteed death.
 
Firing squads are a waste. It only takes one bullet in the brain pan to kill someone. Why waste all them bullets that a whole squad has? Faster than leathal injection and no chance of the wrong amount or mixture of poison being used and prolonging the death. If you don't think one bullet is enough then just do a double tap to the head. No one will live through that.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Firing squads are a waste. It only takes one bullet in the brain pan to kill someone. Why waste all them bullets that a whole squad has? Faster than leathal injection and no chance of the wrong amount or mixture of poison being used and prolonging the death. If you don't think one bullet is enough then just do a double tap to the head. No one will live through that.
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Not all of the rifles have live rounds. Some are blanks. It allows a degree of separation for the shooters who do not know if their shot was the cause of death.
 
tech30528 said:
Not all of the rifles have live rounds. Some are blanks. It allows a degree of separation for the shooters who do not know if their shot was the cause of death.
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We have physicians that inject poison into a persons body by the push of a button. Those people know that they are the ones that kill the person. If they can handle it then others can also. Blanks and the extra personnel are still a waste of money and still not needed imo.
 
Kal'Stang said:
We have physicians that inject poison into a persons body by the push of a button. Those people know that they are the ones that kill the person. If they can handle it then others can also. Blanks and the extra personnel are still a waste of money and still not needed imo.
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Well you are certainly entitled to your opinion. I have always wondered how the hypocratic oath jibes with lethal injection.
 
tech30528 said:
I have always wondered how the hypocratic oath jibes with lethal injection.
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The AMA doesn't have the authority to prohibit Physicians from participating in capital punishment but believes it is contrary to the Hippocratic Oath. And it is. Remember, they are not executioners, they are supposed to dedicate their life to savings lives, not taking them.

Those Physicians that choose to have direct participation in executions are a disgrace to their profession.
 
Barbaric.
 
As long as the convicted killer is executed, I couldn't care less how it's done. I say make all methods legal and let the killer choose their own killing. Better yet would be to kill them in exactly the same way that they killed their victim(s).
 
Kal'Stang said:
We have physicians that inject poison into a persons body by the push of a button. Those people know that they are the ones that kill the person. If they can handle it then others can also. Blanks and the extra personnel are still a waste of money and still not needed imo.
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Three people push a button. Only one of them pushes the button that releases the poison. Same principle as the one rifle with a blank round.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Firing squads are a waste. It only takes one bullet in the brain pan to kill someone. Why waste all them bullets that a whole squad has? Faster than leathal injection and no chance of the wrong amount or mixture of poison being used and prolonging the death. If you don't think one bullet is enough then just do a double tap to the head. No one will live through that.
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I think the idea is that no one knows which bullet killed. Then no one gets blamed or feels too much guilt.
 
mak2 said:
Barbaric.
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no more barbaric than what these people subjected their victims to.

we have automated machines don't need human shooters.
 
ludin said:
no more barbaric than what these people subjected their victims to.

we have automated machines don't need human shooters.
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The barbarism of the convicted is not and should not be relevant to the government's choice of execution method. In fact it is important that as a culture if we choose to kill people that it is done as justice and not revenge.
 
The Man said:
As long as the convicted killer is executed, I couldn't care less how it's done. I say make all methods legal and let the killer choose their own killing. Better yet would be to kill them in exactly the same way that they killed their victim(s).
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I think the victim or their families.should pick.the punishment and the jury can decide.if.its appropriate.

Do something REALLY heinous and you could get drawn and quartered, for example.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Firing squads are a waste. It only takes one bullet in the brain pan to kill someone. Why waste all them bullets that a whole squad has? Faster than leathal injection and no chance of the wrong amount or mixture of poison being used and prolonging the death. If you don't think one bullet is enough then just do a double tap to the head. No one will live through that.
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This would work well:

 
Why not just bring back guillotines instead? Guaranteed death. :roll:
 
Sababa said:
The barbarism of the convicted is not and should not be relevant to the government's choice of execution method. In fact it is important that as a culture if we choose to kill people that it is done as justice and not revenge.
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My experience leads me to believe that most people don't make a distinction between these two things.
 
tech30528 said:
Well you are certainly entitled to your opinion. I have always wondered how the hypocratic oath jibes with lethal injection.
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most lethal injection executions are not performed by medical professionals, because they morally oppose using lethal injection to kill.
 
Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad as per his request. But because Mormons believe in "blood atonement" and firing squads shed blood, it became controversial on religious grounds and the method was stopped because it might look like the LDS were just practicing their religion.


But yes, only two people in a firing squad have real bullets in their rifles and the rest are blanks. The second is in case one misses. But the idea is that no one in the firing squad knows which one shot the fatal blow and so no one can take credit for killing a man and the doubt helps to alleviate any moral conscience of they might have....even though they all volunteered to execute someone.
 
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