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South Carolina can now carry out firing-squad executions

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Posted By: Hazymac, 3/21/2022 9:58:38 AM

Washington -- The South Carolina Department of Corrections said Friday that it can now carry out executions by firing squad in the state should death row inmates choose the method. The department informed state Attorney General Alan Wilson on Friday that it had completed renovations on the death chamber at the Broad River Correctional Institution and had established protocols, making it able to conduct such executions, according to a news release. There are currently no scheduled executions in South Carolina. Executions there had been paused until the state was able to accommodate the firing squad option. In May 2021, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Ribicon 3/21/2022 10:03:45 AM (No. 1105737)
Why give the prisoners a choice when their victims had none? Let them spin a wheel to determine their fate.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Hazymac 3/21/2022 10:06:13 AM (No. 1105739)
Hobson's choice. Whether to go out in a blaze of glory or NaCl induced heart failure on gurney. Choose the poison. At least it's choice of a kind.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: hershey 3/21/2022 10:08:04 AM (No. 1105744)
Bullets are only $1 a round, depending on caliber...
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 3/21/2022 10:23:26 AM (No. 1105768)
Did Hunter commit any of his crimes there?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: JHHolliday 3/21/2022 10:35:09 AM (No. 1105783)
My late cousin was a Marine lieutenant in the Korean War. He got handed the job of assembling the firing squad for a Marine who had raped and murdered a South Korean woman. Not the most pleasant duty but after surviving the hell of that war I don’t think it bothered him very much.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: lakerman1 3/21/2022 11:03:04 AM (No. 1105818)
I have, for a long time, been in favor of using the victim's cause of death as the execution mode. It makes perfect sense to me.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 3/21/2022 11:11:31 AM (No. 1105826)
I have a cousin who worked at a prison as a doctor. A small plurality of death row inmates are actively remorseful, don't oppose their punishment, actively seek the death penalty as a final act of contrition, including one who really wanted to donate his organs to be of some remote use to people. He tried to get hung or have them put in in a coma and take his organs at some leisure, but ended up getting the needle, which apparently made his organs useless.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: RuckusTom 3/21/2022 11:26:24 AM (No. 1105842)
For all the bleeding hearts out there, this is a great execution method. The human body is a big water balloon. The hydrostatic shock from the impact of 160 grains of lead from a 30-06 traveling at roughly 2800 ft. per second 12 times at once is literally instantaneous. Breath and lungs knocked out and heart destroyed. Bye Bye. Keep their coffin close by and send them on their way.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: MickTurn 3/21/2022 11:28:05 AM (No. 1105845)
Line up all the Commies and start the work...I'll pay for the bullets!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: TLCary 3/21/2022 12:27:14 PM (No. 1105903)
Ok, but can they also have a lottery to see who gets to do the shooting? With the money raised, we could defray the cost of paying for their lawyers... maybe more.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: ussjimmycarter 3/21/2022 12:44:12 PM (No. 1105914)
Target…heart! Aim…fire… aww I was 10 inches high!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: anniebc 3/21/2022 12:45:58 PM (No. 1105916)
Hopefully, this is a deference for leftists thinking of moving here.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: bigfatslob 3/21/2022 1:08:30 PM (No. 1105929)
Have a tee-shirt stand selling tees showing the death row criminal with his face in the middle of the target like Loony Toons. That's all Folks!
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Ruhn 3/21/2022 2:38:38 PM (No. 1105985)
I'm for Thunderdome. Two men enter. One man leaves.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: cold porridge 3/21/2022 2:40:04 PM (No. 1105986)
Great News! Look out Lindsay Graham, I understand you live in SC. Perfect.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: KTWO 3/21/2022 3:53:15 PM (No. 1106049)
#8 has it right. I'll add that multiple rifles eliminate possible equipment failure. The firing squad is certain and in expensive. No special equipment or site is needed. For years states have sometimes had uncertain results using electric chairs, hangings, and drug injections. All those methods do work but sometimes not painlessly and quickly .
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Hazymac 3/21/2022 6:26:38 PM (No. 1106157)
There are plenty of World War II videos of Nazi prisoners being shot by firing squad. With several simultaneous.30.06 Springfield (7.62x63mm) rounds in the heart, it's what a hunter would call "an ethical kill." He goes straight down. No ifs, ands, or buts.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Pontificator 3/22/2022 11:25:21 AM (No. 1106673)
Hung by the neck until dead. Good rope can be used over and over.
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