Firing Squad........

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32027751
Ok it's better than the other botched methods they use but why can't the septics just own up and admit they are totally inept at execution and get some experts in?

[sandyRoe]

I've often thought they should call on their friends in Saudi Arabia. You rarely hear of a botched beheading.

[Jackdaw33]

Albert Pierrepoint could walk into a prisoner's cell and have him dead at the end of a rope within 15 seconds. His record was 8 seconds.

[sandyRoe]

But the beauty of the firing squad is that you could invite relatives of the killers victims to take part. 'An eye for an eye', put into operation.

[andy-hughes]

There seems to be no concept of the depthless irony of comparing the 'cruelty' of one method of execution over another.

Is there a 'non' cruel method of execution?.

The governor finds the notion of a firing squad, quote, "A little bit gruesome...", like he's reviewing Friday 13th Part 27 instead of talking about taking the life of a human being.

It beggars belief that supposedly intelligent people can discuss on this level the notion of levels of cruelty in state-sponsored murder.

[andy-hughes]

sandyRoe - // But the beauty of the firing squad ... // - bit of an oxymoron there Sandy!

[mikey4444]

I am not and never will be a supporter of capital punishment, but if its got to be done, this has to be better than the long drawn out lethal injection, and the quite frankly, barbarous electric chair.

From the Scottish Play :::: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well, it were done quickly"

[-Talbot-]

Is there a 'non' cruel method of execution?.


Swiss clinic?

[mikey4444]

sandyRoe ( 09:30) )......in America, its possible that it might happen ! After all, loads of them seem to have the weapons needed.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //Is there a 'non' cruel method of execution?.


Swiss clinic? //

Are you talking about voluntary euthanasia?

That's hardly relevent to the discussion is it?

[Hopkirk]

Sandy, just because you don't hear of botched beheadings in Saudi Arabia doesn't mean there aren't any.

[Peter Pedant]

// I've often thought they should call on their friends in Saudi Arabia. You rarely hear of a botched beheading.//

yeah ! presidential pardon for Jihandi John ( excuse me ? or - pardon ? ) and get him to do it - they're usually dead at the end ...

[Slapshot]

Is there a 'non' cruel method of execution?......

Another 5 years under a Camoron government?? Maybe we should do what hitler did with his traitors...... hang the beggars with Piano wire

[-Talbot-]

If it's good enough for innocents, then it should be good enough for criminals?

[Peter Pedant]

// Are you talking about voluntary euthanasia? //

I mean yeah there is a direct parallel with s/o who has spent 20y on Death Row appealing the decision

[anotheoldgit]

Slapshot

/// Another 5 years under a Camoron government?? Maybe we should do what hitler did with his traitors...... hang the beggars with Piano wire ///

They will just have to take their turn, there are plenty from the past Labour government who are first in the queue.

[mikey4444]

TTT...just noticed your change of avatar ! Can you go back to one of your previous ones please....I was hardly her biggest fan but its better than this !

[Peter Pedant]

// You also want an execution process that gets the job done with the minimum of fuss.//

judge-executioner perhaps - like Judge Dredd ! yeah !

Certainly would make it quick.
To make it quicker you have the execution BEFORE the trial - yeah !

and then litigants - the live ones of course - can make their way to the House of Justice across a blood drenched forecourt ( because of all the pre-executions in case your imagination fails you ) yeah! yeah!

when do we start ?

[Prudie]

You can discuss whether capital punishment per se is cruel but once, if you already have the death penalty as a legal 'state sponsored murder' then of course their are different levels of cruel methods that can be discussed. Personally i'd find lethal injection on a different level of cruelty to hanging to being hung drawn and quartered to being burnt at the stake or thrown to lions.

[Peter Pedant]

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// Another 5 years under a Camoron government?? Maybe we should do what hitler did with his traitors...... hang the beggars with Piano wire//

Did I just read AOG supporting the Nazi legal system ? [ is he perhaps gonna go on and say Theresienstadt really WAS a holiday camp ? ]

Not many people did. We hanged Freisler the People's Prosecutor in 1946 - no not with piano wire and yes Pierreppoint I think