South Carolina allows Firing Squad for Executions

[Catskillkid]

South Carolina institutes firing squad executions

South Carolina now allowing firing squads for executions. If I had a choice on execution that's probably the way I'd like to go out

 

[Acer-m14]

i bet some left wing judge will speak up now and toss some paper work and put a halt to it ...

 

[spat]

Should give them a sack full of tannerite to hold too.

Make it a real show.

 

[GOPerfect]

Fusillading

 

[Deplorable Me]

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

We should be hanging people.

 

[Deplorable Me]

We should be hanging people.

Why handle bodies twice?

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Good.

It's cheaper for tax payers. It's Faster and reliable you don't have to rely on exotic and rare pharmaceuticals.

If I had to be executed I would rather take the firing squad over the other choices. It seems more humane. And odds are a majority of people on death row are there for shooting/murdering so an eye for an eye.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

I think Utah has firing squad as well.

 

[SomeSoldier]

Steamroller, for pedophiles and traitors.

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

Why handle bodies twice?

It would be good exercise, and benefit society tremendously.

There are a LOT of people I would buy tickets to watch hang.

 

[Steal2B]

I wonder if that includes the historically popular "blowing from a gun" or "execution by cannon"


"George Carter Stent described the process as follows: “The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen”.

Things did not always work out according to plan at such executions; at a mass execution at Firozpur in 1857, there was an order that blank cartridge should be used, but some loaded with grapeshot instead. Several of the spectators facing the cannons were hit by the grapeshot and some had to amputate limbs as a result. In addition, some of the soldiers had not been withdrawn properly and sustained damages by being hit by whizzing pieces of flesh and bone.

Others reported with shudders how birds of prey circled above the execution place and swooped down to catch pieces of human flesh in the air, while others were nauseated by the dogs loitering about the place of execution and rushing to the scene to devour some of the “delicacies” spread around as a result of the execution.

Arguably, the nation most well-known to have implemented this type of execution was the British Empire"

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Ecocution. Fast and economical, hence the green team should approve.

 

[GOYABEAN]

I say let's put those volcanoes to use

 

[tirwin1]

Me:. Outrageous decision, barbaric and excessive.

Also me: Cool. Can we live stream them?

 

[Acer-m14]

before the firing squad .. they need to have a manicure and pedicure ..

bamboo stuck under them ..

 

[Xae289]

It's probably the best way to be executed. Especially if you go out in style like French Marshall Ney (one of Napoleon's generals) who refused to wear a blindfold and himself gave the men the order to fire after coaching them to make sure that they aimed straight for his heart.

 

[cgrutt]

It's all barbaric. Esp trying someone, finding them guilty and keeping them on death row for 20+ years to await final accounting. Just my opinion.

It would be much better to let families of deceased victims to exact revenge in any manner appropriate to the crime but that's another story for another day. Gov't is the problem both for good and bad side of things. Less gov't and more "we the people" is the only way I see out of this. Sad world we find ourselves in. Seriously.

 

[kev74]

I wonder if that includes the historically popular "blowing from a gun" or "execution by cannon"
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"George Carter Stent described the process as follows: “The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen”.

Things did not always work out according to plan at such executions; at a mass execution at Firozpur in 1857, there was an order that blank cartridge should be used, but some loaded with grapeshot instead. Several of the spectators facing the cannons were hit by the grapeshot and some had to amputate limbs as a result. In addition, some of the soldiers had not been withdrawn properly and sustained damages by being hit by whizzing pieces of flesh and bone.

Others reported with shudders how birds of prey circled above the execution place and swooped down to catch pieces of human flesh in the air, while others were nauseated by the dogs loitering about the place of execution and rushing to the scene to devour some of the “delicacies” spread around as a result of the execution.

Arguably, the nation most well-known to have implemented this type of execution was the British Empire"

That's gonna make a mess!

 

[Bustedknees]

Stay of execution due to lack of ammo.

 

[Bustedknees]

 

[meketrefe]

I still think the concrete boots is pretty cost effective and it recycles pretty cleanly and nicely.

 

[Cooolone]

Skin removal and a salt bath work well...

Or the Apache way... Buried to the chin with the eyelids removed! Or laid upon the ground all corners tied to stakes and a wet leather strap tied tightly around the neck and a slow, slow strangulation as the strap dried in the sun!...

Best is cracking rocks for food, say, one slice of bread per 1 ton cracked?... No fucking TV, etc for hardened criminals with a public service chanel 24/7 that anyone could tune to in order to see how well it worked out for their friend!

You know, history is a funny thing, and although some methods may be considered cruel by contemporary standards, there is a reason why they worked!!! And if there is no deterrent or it's is easily mastered then it doesn't do what it is intended to do, change behavior!!!

We are a terrible creature, we are the only animal on this Earth that blushes, or needs to . We kill our neighbor for profit, or to steal their wives! It hasn't changed and it won't change in the foreseeable future!

I like the cannon thing but unfortunately it's over well too quickly for the miscreant!

 

[Mk44]

I don't care if they shoot them, hang them or fry them. I just wish NY would exercise the death penalty instead of wasting tax dollars on housing them.

 

[Acer-m14]

Right here NY .. back in the old days ..

Boyd and Parker ambush - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"
During the next day the scouting party spotted a group of four Indians along the trail and a brief gun fight occurred. One Indian was killed, and Boyd and Parker started to return to Sullivan. On the trail they spotted five Indians who fled. Boyd’s guide told him not to follow, for it was a trap, but he ignored the warning. They were led into the enemy’s lines, surrounded, and outnumbered. Fifteen of Boyd’s men were killed, eight escaped, while Boyd and Parker were captured. Estimates from contemporary Journals is that the Boyd party numbered 29 of whom 17 were killed; 5 returned and 7 escaped.[1]

Besides Boyd and Parker, there are 12 known names of Boyd-Parker party who were killed.;[2] one name on this monument "Corporal Calhoun" refers to a NCO who died of wounds in an ambush which occurred separate from the Boyd-Parker ambush.[1]

The two were taken to Little Beard's Town, now Cuylerville, where Brant questioned them. After he left, Little Beard and his men tortured and executed Boyd and Parker in anger over the presence of American troops in the area. Boyd was tied to a tree by his own intestines and forced to run around the tree until he fell dead. The tree is still located in the commemorative park."

 

[Grimscale]

I just wish NY would exercise the death penalty instead of wasting tax dollars on housing them.

But they don't anymore. They just release them back into the population to prey on the unsuspecting.

If I were sheriff I'd be moving them to right outside the politician's neighborhoods with a pat on the back and a "have at 'em, boys!"

 

[jimc]

I hope they use a semiautomatic rifle with detachable high capacity magazine, adjustable stock, pistol grip that extends conspicuously below the action, threaded barrel, and bayonet mount. I mean, they are more deadly than anything else.