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South Carolina
Ricci.Wright
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just brought back the firing squad.
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They need ammo?
Hey man come on we got to shoot that prisoner, which guns are we using?? Well, we have six rounds of .30-30, and six rounds of .30-06. So, do you want to use the model 94's or the Garands??
I would rather they bring back public hangings.
I read a few days back Russia was going to do that in the "war" area
never happen here way too many bleeding hearts and leftist not to mention all the "good guys "who were turning there life around (Oh and just shot every body at the local 7-11 over a cup of coffee and $10.00 ) on the way to a prayer meeting per there friends and family
22 Rimfire is a lot cheaper. Hurts the SHOOTER less too.🤤
By MEG KINNARD, Associated Press
Updated 18 hours ago
South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad executions
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad executions, a method codified into state law last year after a decade-long pause in carrying out death sentences because of the state's inability to procure lethal injection drugs.
The state Corrections Department said Friday that renovations have been completed on the death chamber in Columbia and that the agency had notified Attorney General Alan Wilson that it was able to carry out a firing-squad execution.
Lawmakers set about tweaking state law to get around the lethal injection drug situation. Legislation that went into effect in May made the electric chair the state’s primary means of execution while giving inmates the option of choosing death by firing squad or lethal injection, if those methods are available.
During South Carolina's lengthy debate, Democratic state Sen. Dick Harpootlian — a prosecutor-turned-criminal-defense lawyer — introduced the firing squad option. He argued that it presented "the least painful" execution method available.
“The death penalty is going to stay the law here for a while,” Harpootlian said. “If we’re going to have it, it ought to be humane.”
According to officials, the death chamber now also includes a metal chair, with restraints, in the corner of the room in which inmates will sit if they choose execution by firing squad. That chair faces a wall with a rectangular opening, 15 feet away, through which the three shooters will fire their weapons.
State officials also have created protocols for carrying out the executions. The three shooters, all volunteers who are employees of the Corrections Department, will have rifles loaded with live ammunition, with their weapons trained on the inmate's heart.
A hood will be placed over the head of the inmate, who will be given the opportunity to make a last statement.
According to officials, Corrections spent $53,600 on the renovations.
Ah, the good ole days
With the ammo shortage, it would be a bad thing to wound the guy, and then run out of ammo......
When Gay Gilmore got the firing squad in Utah, four officers with .30-30s sat at a bench 25 feet away, and shot him in the heart. Quick death.
I don't understand the lethal injection drug problem. I would think that any veterinarians office would have the drugs to do the job. My vet gives a dog one shot that immobilizes the muscles. He then gives a shot that stops the heart. Quick and problem free.
or the only person doing the shooting would be wearing his NRA cap and wearing his shooting jacket with all the NRA and gun and ammo badges/emblems, long range Creedmore badges and then he miss and the guy would then be allowed to walk free. CNN and facebrag would have that one on TV fast.
Then later the person doing the shooting would be on CNN as news of committing suicide due to the embarrassment of a miss.
But later it was determined that he was given a blank by democrats.
Might be time to call in Alec.
Time to call in
By all means let us make it painless.
If they want painless why not a 12 gauge to the noggin? No brain, no pain.
I can't fathom the statement that they cannot get lethal injectable drugs. Cripes, they confiscate tons of the stuff every year. Just one cc of fetanyl is enough to kill dozens of people. The majority of people on death row were likely addicts to begin with. They wanted to shoot up with those drugs. I say give it to 'em - in copious amounts.
I don't understand why they need actual people to pull the trigger, with todays robotics they should only need someone to load the rifles and stand back and push a button.........
Anyone know when and why the "unusual punishment" scenario started to control the death sentencing approach?
I wonder if the guillotine was considered? Suppose to be the most efficient and quick way to go🤔
The new norm is everybody has live ammo, except for ONE. That way they can all say, I had the blank(in their mind if it makes feel better). Firing squad is the most human and cheapest way to carry out the execution. I'm all for it!
We have a bacon situation going on.
I say, we give the some lashings, to get some fresh blood flowing.
Then throw them to the hogs. Easy peasy.
When they get butcher weight, sell them off, and get fresh.
Don't even TALK about hanging!
Some rope manufacturer is going to start virtue signaling, and next thing you know-
You can't buy a freakin' rope!
Why don't they ask gun companies to manufacture lethal injection drugs?
SC has given up on lethal drugs, because of lawsuits brought by anti death penalty libs, they cannot get a stock pile of the drugs.
Phenobarbitol is used hundreds of times daily to "put to sleep" old and sick horses, and dogs. A quick and painless death. As y'all have said, the animals die from respiratory arrest.
For the death chamber for murderers, they used phenobarbitol to knock the criminal out, and just as he was about to quit breathing, it was followed quickly by an injection of potassium chloride, which stops the heart. The criminal was dead 2 ways.
But the activist Lib lawyers, being unable to halt capital punishment through legislation, have taken the back door and made these drugs unavailable to states, through lawsuits.
So, South Carolina, God Bless Them, has gone "old school" and has gone back to the firing squad. When Gary Gilmore was wacked in Utah, they had five officers with .30/30s at a range of 25 feet, four had live ammo and one had a blank.
Four .30/30 slugs in the heart would hurt like hell, but wouldn't hurt for long.
That would be racist
my thoughts on one blank who ever fires it will know they shot the blank no recoil . you have to trust the integrity they do not say wow I got the blank you other fellows killed him
cruel and unusual was written in to prevent thinks like the rack , drawn and quartered , burned alive ,crucified , stoning torn in half by horses all the wonders ways man has come up with even death by cannon .. and many countless ways people have tortured some one as they died . but the libs started screaming crying any thing is basic cruel and unusual
would make a great display though
Technically they do make a tool for lethal injection.
I actually wasn't sleeping well knowing the guy was history in the morning