http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/methods-execution#wa

Firing squad?

wow. i didn't know they still had those.

11/24/2009 10:26:15 PM

USA#1

11/24/2009 10:26:48 PM

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/some-examples-post-furman-botched-executions

11/24/2009 10:27:33 PM

I don't see 'Death by Snu Snu' anywhere on that list

11/24/2009 10:28:27 PM

i wouldn't trust anything that site says anyways. it's not even XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant

11/24/2009 10:28:29 PM

look i know you're smrt and all

but posting an article with 60+ notations in chit chat

I DONT COME HERE TO READ I COME HERE TO LULZ

11/24/2009 10:28:45 PM

how exactly is killing someone on death row considered unconstitutional?

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 10:29 PM. Reason : f]

11/24/2009 10:29:04 PM

was it chris rock or dave that had the kids draw ways to execute people

throwing from a helicopter into a volcano was my favorite

11/24/2009 10:29:14 PM

Quote :

"14. October 17, 1990. Virginia. Wilbert Lee Evans. Electrocution. When Evans was hit with the first burst of electricity, blood spewed from the right side of the mask on Evans's face, drenching Evans's shirt with blood and causing a sizzling sound as blood dripped from his lips. Evans continued to moan before a second jolt of electricity was applied. The autopsy concluded that Evans suffered a bloody nose after the voltage surge elevated his high blood pressure"

11/24/2009 10:31:58 PM

ugh...

this isn't the thread for me

11/24/2009 10:33:10 PM

cody and i are over here

11/24/2009 10:33:34 PM

Quote :

"31. July 8, 1999. Florida. Allen Lee Davis. Electrocution. "Before he was pronounced dead ... the blood from his mouth had poured onto the collar of his white shirt, and the blood on his chest had spread to about the size of a dinner plate, even oozing through the buckle holes on the leather chest strap holding him to the chair."[45] His execution was the first in Florida's new electric chair, built especially so it could accommodate a man Davis's size (approximately 350 pounds). Later, when another Florida death row inmate challenged the constitutionality of the electric chair, Florida Supreme Court Justice Leander Shaw commented that "the color photos of Davis depict a man who -- for all appearances -- was brutally tortured to death by the citizens of Florida."[46] Justice Shaw also described the botched executions of Jesse Tafero and Pedro Medina (q.v.), calling the three executions "barbaric spectacles" and "acts more befitting a violent murderer than a civilized state."[47] Justice Shaw included pictures of Davis's dead body in his opinion.[48] The execution was witnessed by a Florida State Senator, Ginny Brown-Waite, who at first was "shocked" to see the blood, until she realized that the blood was forming the shape of a cross and that it was a message from God saying he supported the execution.[49]"

11/24/2009 10:36:04 PM

yea if you're going to execute someone i dont know how firing squad wouldn't be the top of your list.

bullets are cheap

11/24/2009 10:36:30 PM

apparently the inmate gets to choose!

11/24/2009 10:39:25 PM

Quote :

"New Hampshire: Authorizes hanging only if lethal injection cannot be given."

hanging ftw. If done properly the neck is quickly snapped while the rope and gallows can be re-used, making it the most eco-friendly.


Live Free or Die bitches!

11/24/2009 10:41:50 PM

yea you can choose in some states, particularly if you were sentenced awhile back. if i had the choice i would do the firing squad

11/24/2009 10:41:54 PM

beheading for me please!

11/24/2009 10:43:02 PM

i, too, would do firing squad.

11/24/2009 10:43:30 PM

^^^ incorrect

Quote :

"According to Executions in the U.S. 1608-1987 by M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smylka, it is estimated that 142 men have been judicially shot in the United States and English-speaking predecessor territories since 1608, excluding executions related to the American Civil War. The Civil War saw several hundred firing squad deaths, but reliable numbers are not available. Crimes punishable by firing squad in the Civil War included desertion, intentionally killing a superior officer or fellow soldier, and being a spy. Capital punishment was suspended in the United States between 1972 and 1976, as a result of several decisions of the United States Supreme Court (Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238). The process resumed with the execution of Gary Gilmore on January 17, 1977, at Utah State Prison in Draper. The five executioners were equipped with .30-30 caliber rifles and off-the-shelf Winchester 150 grain (9.7 g) SilverTip ammunition. The condemned was restrained and hooded, and the shots were fired at a distance of 20 feet (6 m), aiming at the chest. In his biography Shot in the Heart, Mikal Gilmore wrote that when he examined the shirt worn by his brother Gary during the execution, he found five bullet holes, indicating that all members of the squad had been armed with live cartridges, and none with a blank round. The only other post-Furman execution by firing squad, that of John Albert Taylor in 1996, also took place in Utah. Taylor is said to have chosen the firing squad because it would be awkward for state officials. In Utah, the firing squad consisted of five volunteer police officers from the county in which the conviction of the offender took place. A law passed on March 15, 2004 banned execution by firing squad in Utah, but since that specific law was not retroactive,[13] four inmates (one, Roberto Arguelles died of natural causes on death row, leaving only three) on Utah's death row could still have their last requests granted. As of 2009, Oklahoma is the only other state in which execution by firing squad is legally available (as a backup method only; the state uses lethal injection as its primary method of execution).[13] However, on April 1, 2009,[14] a bill to eliminate firing squad as a method of execution in Idaho was enacted, and took effect July 1, 2009.[13] As of 2009, only Oklahoma and Utah have the option of the firing squad as a method of execution. After Utah executes, exonerates or commutes the three remaining inmates who can still possibly choose the method, it is likely the firing squad will never be used in the U.S. again, remaining on the books as a backup only."

11/24/2009 10:43:45 PM

what? show me where cost was a primary concern

its never the thinking part of me that is for it, always the emotional side asks for it, then I try to make it sound reasonable. but the fact is its a fucked up thing to do to someone and its practice has no real legitimate reason beyond state sanctioned revenge. thats another debate altogether though

11/24/2009 10:44:19 PM

what kind of gas are we talkin about in california?? cause if its mustard that could be a deal breaker for me

11/24/2009 10:44:24 PM

just read over the botched executions. given the number of the "unusual reaction to the drugs", it doesn't seem like its that unusual...

11/24/2009 10:44:44 PM

mmmm, mustard.

11/24/2009 10:44:49 PM

I'd choose the firing squad given my choice.

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 10:46 PM. Reason : ]

11/24/2009 10:46:19 PM

we are too nice with our executions anyways. these people that are being executed probably carried out horribly crimes on their victims...and we are supposed to ease the criminal off to sleep...please. if the criminal skinned someone alive, thats the death the criminal should get.

11/24/2009 10:46:44 PM

Quote :

"Glenn, on the street talking with Elaine: "So you would choose your last meal based on the method of execution?" Elaine: "Right, right. I mean, if I was getting the chair, I'd go for something hot and spicy. You know, thai, maybe Mexican. Lethal injection, feels like pasta. You know, painless, don't want anything to heavy.""

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 10:48 PM. Reason : tredr]

11/24/2009 10:47:37 PM

ITT we discuss awesome death row options, not whether or not we think the death penalty is moral or just.

11/24/2009 10:49:42 PM

is the lethal injection the same procedure they use to "put your dog to sleep"?

ibtmtsb

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 10:52 PM. Reason : save it for tmtsb]

11/24/2009 10:51:49 PM

As much as I'd like to see some of the folks who do certain things slowly fed into a wood chipper, that isn't the morally correct thing to do. When the state executes someone (which, frankly, I think should be done for a lot more than murder) it should be in as quick and painless a method as possible. That's why I like hanging, beheading, and firing squad. Other stuff is too unreliable.

11/24/2009 10:56:53 PM

i'd like to kindly direct your eyes to the post 2 above yours.

11/24/2009 10:57:25 PM

hahahhahahahahhahahha

11/24/2009 10:58:35 PM

i'd like to be burnt alive

This has been an AstralAdvent solution.

11/24/2009 10:58:39 PM

Yeah, yeah. I saw it, I just chose to ignore it.

Also, death by quartering. Totally awesome.

11/24/2009 10:59:01 PM

oh here we go....

11/24/2009 10:59:28 PM

http://www.funny-games.biz/death-row.html

11/24/2009 11:01:20 PM

beheading by a guillotine for me.

others are too horrifically painful.

11/24/2009 11:02:58 PM

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/executedoffenders.htm

last statement of everybody put to death in texas.

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 11:06 PM. Reason : rytyt]

11/24/2009 11:06:15 PM

if i had to choose, i think i'd go with firing squad. and make sure all those fuckers are packing live ammo, none of this 10 guys with one bullet mamby pamby bullshit. if you're man enough to pull the trigger, you're man enough to fire a lethal shot.

11/24/2009 11:06:22 PM

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 11:08 PM. Reason : trust me, i'm a doctor]

11/24/2009 11:07:55 PM

woah

Quote :

"I would like to say that Capital self defense is not Capital Murder."

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/moorefranklast.htm


crazy

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 11:11 PM. Reason : this is not to open the floodgates of the morality of the death penalty! just interesting...]

11/24/2009 11:10:30 PM

fuck the death penalty


in 2008, we were 5th in the number of executions.

Country Number
China At least 5000 (wtf mate)
Iran At least 346
Saudi Arabia At least 102
North Korea At least 63
United States of America 37
Pakistan At least 36
Iraq At least 34
Vietnam At least 19
Afghanistan At least 17
Japan 15
Yemen At least 13
Indonesia 10
Libya At least 8
Sudan At least 5
Bangladesh 5
Belarus 4
Somalia At least 3
Egypt At least 2
United Arab Emirates At least 1
Malaysia At least 1
Mongolia At least 1
Singapore At least 1
Syria 1
Bahrain 1
Botswana 1
Saint Kitts and Nevis 1

Take a look at the countries on that list. What great company to be in

11/24/2009 11:12:55 PM

great. that's nice







now take that shit to the soapbox.

11/24/2009 11:18:08 PM

Dude, Dr. Dre got jacked!

11/24/2009 11:19:09 PM

ok

well keeping on topic



sorry to break everyones hopes and dreams, but you can't choose a firing squad anymore.

11/24/2009 11:20:37 PM

This should work a fair amount of the time

11/24/2009 11:21:32 PM

the US makes up 4.53% of the world's population, but only accounts for 0.65% of the world's executions. (according to the execution data given.)

11/24/2009 11:21:57 PM

really?


i mean how do you know?

(not being a troll, seriously wondering)

11/24/2009 11:22:35 PM

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11/24/2009 11:23:03 PM

(is that to me? if so, I added up all of the reported executions from the data given, and divided that into the number reported for the US.)

11/24/2009 11:23:52 PM

on second thought, i'd go for guillotine. but only if they display my severed head right afterwards so i can swear at the crowd just before i pass on like that mary queen of scotts chick did.

11/24/2009 11:24:32 PM