It’s important people read the articles on this one as it’s doing the rounds. It was his choice, but also it’s important to know why it was his choice. I think that part is a much more alarming thing to know and understand.
I wish I could pin this.
Yeah, the context is fucked. The state government wanted to resume executions really bad, but the drugs they use apparently are excruciating, so they force them to choose between those drugs, the chair, or the squad. So yeah he chose the squad… because… well, what actually is the best choice for the guy in that context? I don’t know, but I feel like it’s very possibly isn’t the drugs.
A bullet through the brain is pretty fucken quick. It may not be peaceful but it was probably relatively painless.
Read the article. The firing squad does not go for a headshot.
That’s fucking stupid.
I mean, a lot of this is fucking stupid. That’s just one small part of the stupidity.
I wasn’t aware there was such a thing as a peaceful execution.
shieeeet if i was on death row, and i had a choice, i;d take the firing squad over lethal injection any day.
in case y’all didn’t know lethal injection is a cocktail of 3 different drugs that were never approved by any doctor, the whole “do no harm” bit. typically its a sedative, a paralytic, and a potassium shot to seal the deal. there have been cases where people are alive and but paralyzed for way too long while the potassium is slowly and agonizingly killing then
Getting shot by multiple people in the chest and stomach isn’t going to be any more painless.
still id rather get shot, and die of shock and blood-loss in under a minute then be paralyzed and in agony for a half hour. Lethal injection may look more humane, but appearances are deceiving, with a firing squad what you see is what you get, multiple rifle rounds turning your organs into slush.
Edit: 3 hours of them trying to administer the lethal injection https://www.the-sun.com/news/6015918/joe-nathan-james-jr-longest-lethal-injection/
Death by potassium overdose causes runaway cell death. When a cell dies and ruptures it releases potassium which then ruptures and kills other cells.
Essentially, melting your flesh off your body from the inside.
I’ll take getting shot, thanks.
It will at least be quicker!
If I had to choose I’d prefer my head to be crushed by a rapidly falling 100 ton block of steel. Shooting in the heart is fucking crazy. Your brain will survive for quite a while as it loses blood flow/oxygen.
There are states that have been experimenting with nitrogen, which just puts you painlessly to sleep. The pain from suffocation is caused by the buildup of carbon dioxide, not from lack of oxygen.
If I had the option, this is hands down what I would choose.
I think the death penalty should be brutal and violent. If anything, it should be even more violent. Lethal injections are disgusting; the state dresses its murders up in the visage of medicine. They make a murder seem clean and clinical.
I think we should do the exact opposite. Make it as brutal as possible. You want the government to kill someone? Fine. We’ll make it a gorefest.
Here’s how we should do executions. First, it’s not carried out by state employees. It’s carried out by the victim’s closest relatives. As for method of execution? They’re going to do it with their bare hands. The condemned is strapped to a chair and injected with a cocktail of powerful pain killers. The victim’s family members are let in. They then have to beat the condemned to death with their bear hands, all while he is screaming and begging for his life. THAT is how executions should be performed. Quit trying to disguise state murder. You want the government to murder someone? Quit the pretense and make it honest. Maybe fewer people would support the death penalty if it consisted of brutally beating people to death instead of a faux-medical treatment.
Yeah this approach has definitely worked in Saudi Arabia, where public beheadings draw a crowd and people sell mementos of the occasion. Their people are famously anti-death penalty now - they even stopped sentencing children to death in 2020 by royal decree, very progressive. Though they haaave been increasing executions significantly over the last five years, even though up to two thirds of their executions are for non-violent crime. Hmm.
Public opinon polls are very rare in SA so let’s check in on some opinions from SA redditors…
https://www.reddit.com/r/saudiarabia/comments/qsbbew/whats_your_opinion_on_the_death_penalty/
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*bare hands
Unless you’re saying the state gives the victims cool animal grafts
“convicted of beating his ex-girlfriend’s parents, David and Gladys Larke, to death with a baseball bat in 2001”
Seems like a pretty typical murder, what elevated it to a death penalty case?
I think they should all be firing squad or hanging. Make them violent again. So people take notice of them.
