Posted on May 16, 2017
Death row inmate asks to be executed by firing squad instead of lethal injection
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I'm all for the death penalty, no matter how it is carried out, and it seems to me that this guy has a point with regards to the firing squad...not necessarily with the pain involved, because really who cares how much some POS suffers, the end result is still death, but primarily with cost and efficiency. I think we should go back to the firing squad, or hanging, and start cleaning out death rows across the country.
Death row inmate asks to be executed by firing squad instead of lethal injection
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LTC (Join to see) Just as long as they are put to death and we stop spending thousands of dollars a year keeping them on this planet. Heck, I am opposed to spending "tens of dollars" a year on them.
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SSG(P) (Join to see)
Exactly. How much do the chemicals for lethal injection cost versus the cost of half a box of bullets? Technically, according to tradition, only one guy's rifle has a live round, and the rest of them are blanks. So the firing party does not know who fired the kill shot, thus absolving all of them the moral repercussions of killing someone.
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MSgt Stephen Council
SSG(P) (Join to see) - I may not have been clear. I do not care how much the either execution method costs. It pales in comparison to how much it costs to keep them sitting on death row stealing oxygen form useful human beings...
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SSG(P) (Join to see)
MSgt Stephen Council - Preaching to the choir! While I was a Corrections Officer, I had daily contact with prisoners who had life sentences. They are the toughest prisoners to work with, because there is nothing you can threaten them with to get them to comply with orders. You tell them to do something, and they just stand there and say "Or what? You gonna make me stay in here for the rest of my life? Too late, CO!"
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I agree. Let condemned prisoners choose the method of their execution (within reason).
From Breaker Morant
https://youtu.be/HgnCiV31tYg
From Breaker Morant
https://youtu.be/HgnCiV31tYg
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SSG(P) (Join to see)
LTC (Join to see) - Mine too, sir. I love the courtroom scene where "Rule 303" is discussed.
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I don't believe the cost involved in executions is the cost of the execution itself. It is the long legal process of appeals that precedes it that is expensive.
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LTC (Join to see)
I believe this to be true for the most part, but I am pretty sure a box of bullets, which can be used for multiple executions, or a rope, which can be used over and over again, is much cheaper than drugs used in lethal injections.
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SPC Kevin Ford
LTC (Join to see) Yes, both are likely true. On the one hand every penny that can be saved to achieve the same results is worth saving. On the other, it probably won't substantially move the needle.
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