Old Sparkies Back ?

[youngmafbog]

Is this what the right-on brigade were expecting when pressure was put on the drug companies to stop lethal injection use of pentobarbital ?

http://news.sky.com/story/1267289/tennessee-backs-return-to-electric-chair

And authorities in Utah and Wyoming later said they were considering bringing back execution by firing squad to avoid the problems associated with lethal injections.

[anotheoldgit]

Shocking news.

[Svejk]

lol@aog.

[ToraToraTora]

what is it with the septics? Why will they not use the best, tried tested method, the rope pure and simple. Injection/gas chamber/electric chair all terrible, even Le Frogs have more idea! For Funks Sake even the Arabs decapitation by sword is better than those. I cannot believe the nation that put a man on the moon cannot come up with a better execution method. Are they just being contrary? Electrocution has to be one of the worst ways.

[carrust]

I can't believe that in the 21st century that some countries are still executing people!

[wolf63]

I tend to question the mentality of a person whose career choice is one of executioner. You have to wake up in the morning with the knowledge that you have to kill someone that day.

I am not totally against capital punishment and I agree that strong deterrents are needed to stop/attempt to stop serious crime. Maybe, in the UK anyway, longer and tougher sentences. We could get the prisoners digging away in quarries and big holes - make them really work.

[anotheoldgit]

Something along the lines of say "It's a final knock out"?

[youngmafbog]

I agree TTT. This is definitely a backward step.

Longer sentences in the UK. HaHaHa, not while in the EU and subscribing to the ECHR we wont.

[youngmafbog]

On form today AOG !

[Sipowicz]

Dead or no dead?

[Old_Geezer]

Pressure should be put on the bullet companies to stop lethal infections of lead.

And on the electric companies to stop lethal injections of electrons.

[Old_Geezer]

INJECTIONS

AS TYPED ! >>>:-(

[Quizmonster]

I have to agree with TTT - almost unheard of! - that hanging, as practised by Albert Pierrepoint and other executioners in Britain is the swiftest and surest method. The elapsed time between his and his assistant's entering the condemned person's cell and the prisoner despatched on the gallows next door was generally only seconds.
No question of cruel and unusual punishment, torture or evidence for the source of the method - which seem to be the main problems in the USA - existed. He even left detailed instructions as to how to do it effectively.
All the American authorities need to do is google around for his notebooks!

[sandyRoe]

A firing squad would dispatch the victim quickly and at the same time pander to the American's taste for guns.

[andy-hughes]

Interesting when you look at the two images of the electric chair and the lethal injection table.

Both look exactly like what they are -

one is an old-fashioned barbaric cruel and inhumane way to kill a human being,

the other is a modern barbaric cruel and inhumane way to kill a human being.

If a country really does have to indulge in the inhumane, barbaric, cruel and vengeful concept of executions, then i would also agree with TTT and QM.

Mr Pierpoint could have his (tranquilised and virtually unaware) prisoner through the door, onto the trap, strapped and dropped in a record of eight seconds.

It's not idea - but then exectution is not supposed to be - but at least it removes the prolonged anticipation for all concerned while the strapping and switch pulling are completed.

[pixie373]

Why a firing sqad? Surely one bullet to the head would be easiest (humane bolt, even), if it has to be done.

[pixie373]

...sorry.....no longer able to spell "squad" with a u!

[paddywak]

With the one bullet it's all on one person to carry out the execution in a rather messy way. A firing squad consists of a number of shooters which increases the chances of a quick and lethal wound,also tradition dictates that at least one of the rifles be loaded with a blank so each member can believe he did not fire the fatal shot

[pixie373]

Thanks paddy- although a bit daft. Either you're prepared to kill someone or you're not. That doesn't seem necessary with hanging or lethal injection, so why with shooting? It's quickest and most humane, at least. And no mess with a bolt.

[andy-hughes]

pixie373 - I would guess, and it is a guess, that the tradition of loading at least one blank probably dates back to wars, when the eexecution squd would be made up of conscripted soliders rather than individuals who had undertaken specifically to be executioners.

Under wartime conditions, it would be perfectly possible for a conscripted soldier to be required to shoot a friend and colleague, with no reprieve on that basis, so the knowledge that he may not have fired a fatal shot would be of some comfort in those impossible circumstances.