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piepleasenowHamilton Nolan
1/26/15 1:43pm
Against capital punishment but firing squad is by far the most humane way to do it.
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  Russianistpiepleasenow
  1/26/15 1:47pm
  You're assuming the people pushing for this will spend taxpayer dollars on blindfolds and cigarettes when they can be put toward ensuring that all the rifles are loaded with live ammo.
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  Jennifer C. Martinpiepleasenow
  1/26/15 1:52pm
  I've always thought the argument against it was for the people who actually have to do the shooting: there's lot of emotional trauma associated with straight up murdering a person with your own weapons. But as someone against the death penalty, it might be nice for our argument if Americans had to watch this come back instead of comfortably feeling like people are dying "humanely" by lethal injection. Perhaps I overestimate the ability of the American people to empathize, however.
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Cherith CutestoryHamilton Nolan
1/26/15 1:49pm
And then why not auction off a spot on the squad? Four experienced sharp shooters and one lucky citizen. It could raise money and end all those issues of death penalty costing more than incarceration.
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  momofpeanutCherith Cutestory
  1/26/15 1:53pm
  Reality TV show idea! "Who Wants to Hunt Down a Human?"
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  interrogator-chaplainCherith Cutestory
  1/26/15 1:54pm
  Maybe make it something like jury duty and increase civic participation!
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stacyinbeanHamilton Nolan
1/26/15 1:46pm
How does a firing squad work though? Like, how many times do you have to be shot to be definitely dead, or are they aiming for something specific to do it in one shot? Does everyone have live bullets or just a few so no one knows who actually "killed" the person? Who are the shooters? SO MANY QUESTIONS.
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  inProductionstacyinbean
  1/26/15 1:51pm
  I don't have sources to cite (on my phone), but this what I understand:
  
  Once
  They are trained marksman
  They do not know who had the live ammo
  Volunteers.
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  ThePriceisWrongstacyinbean
  1/26/15 1:51pm
  So you know how they wanted to do away with lethal injection because of botched execution and slow death? This is basically that except you get hit with a couple of bullets and then we wait for you to bleed out.
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lantianHamilton Nolan
1/26/15 1:55pm
I for one am a a supporter of death penalty, if the person has killed someone without justification then you do the same to him, punishment should be equal to crime, but only in murder cases should this ever be considered liable, still without it, what do you have life sentence, fuck that your citizens are paying for the well being of the criminals that acted against the very society that supports them and keep them alive, if i will have a say in what way i go out i take a bullet every time vs natural cause or injection, there are problems with US justice system, ok that's an underestimation there are immense problems with US justice system, but death penalty is not amongst them, how do you think how many people would steal from you if the penalty was cutting of the arm, or how many rapists there would be if the penalty woul;d be rape or castration, how many people would be killed if the killer would know the instance he get's caught he or she is dead how many? The answer is a lot less than now
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  ThePriceisWronglantian
  1/26/15 2:00pm
  I support correct punctuation and capitalization but you can't always get what you want.
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  weirwoodtreehugger3lantian
  1/26/15 3:00pm
  I remember reading that crime rates in England went down after they stopped corporal punishment for thieves. Many countries have outlawed the death penalty. We can compare their homicide rates with ours and guess what? Ours is higher. The only country I can think of that has a low homicide rate and the death penalty is Japan. Even in the US, some states have it and some don't. The states that have the death penalty don't have lower homicide rates than the states that don't.
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RussianistHamilton Nolan
1/26/15 1:46pm
Another aspect of conservatives' agenda to roll things back to the glorious year 1896 falls into place.
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  Paul_DRussianist
  1/26/15 2:44pm
  That's being generous. More like 1619.
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ThePriceisWrongHamilton Nolan
1/26/15 1:51pm
Yes, let's replace slow and painful death with uncertainty of prisoners actual death with slow and painful death with uncertainty of actual death without allowing said prisoner to bleed out.

Sounds reasonable.
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CatdogWhispererHamilton Nolan
1/26/15 1:47pm
Damn GOP, one second claiming they're job creators and the next second proposing firing squads. Wouldn't hiring squads be more effective?

eta: Why the hell, if we're really going to keep killing prisoners, don't we give them the option to overdose on opiates or something? I'd definitely prefer that. Ordinary citizens manage to find drug cocktails that kill just fine tens of thousands of times a year, why can't the government?
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okiedokieokieHamilton Nolan
1/26/15 2:06pm
I thought one of the main reasons for having more "humane" methods of execution, was to spare those that actually have to flip the switch. If they're in such a big hurry to return to firing squads, then they should have to do their own dirty work.
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SoapBoxcarWillieHamilton Nolan
1/26/15 4:08pm
a firing squad may actually be more humane than one-drug or "mystery box" lethal injection. It also disrupts the bullshit notion that lethal injection executions are some peaceful process where the condemned just drifts off to dreamy sleep and stops breathing (sort of like how "releasing" works in The Giver), and forces citizens to confront the gruesome nature of capital punishment.
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Hip Brooklyn StereotypeHamilton Nolan
1/26/15 1:54pm
Shame on them for gratuitously seeking to fill potential death row inmates with (Jackson) holes.
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