The reason we don’t like firing squads has nothing to do with how awful it is for the person being executed.
It’s because WE don’t like to see blood, torn flesh and gaping wounds.
We (I’m obviously excluding people who are against capital punishment in any form) have no problem with lethal injection because it’s so nice and « clean ». No slobbering like with a gas chamber, no jerking of the body or odor of charred flesh like with an electric chair, no twitching like with a hanging, and certainly no blood like with a guillotine. It’s all so clean.
Meanwhile we have absolutely no idea what lethal injection feels like to the executed person.
NateinOregon says
Dead is dead. How they get there matters little. Bullets, gas, electricity or a rope all end the same.
amerkanische_Frosch says
I’m gonna be contrarian here.
The reason we don’t like firing squads has nothing to do with how awful it is for the person being executed.
It’s because WE don’t like to see blood, torn flesh and gaping wounds.
We (I’m obviously excluding people who are against capital punishment in any form) have no problem with lethal injection because it’s so nice and « clean ». No slobbering like with a gas chamber, no jerking of the body or odor of charred flesh like with an electric chair, no twitching like with a hanging, and certainly no blood like with a guillotine. It’s all so clean.
Meanwhile we have absolutely no idea what lethal injection feels like to the executed person.
no_name_no_face says
How about execution by inert gas hypoxia? Completely painless and way better than anything else we do to kill people.
I mean, I’m against the death penalty in principle. But inert gas hypoxia is 100% the best way to go.
Buck_Thorn says
> Firing squads will be used only **if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections**
For the headline-only readers.
Inconceivable-2020 says
Summarily
Flourni says
As a society, we are going downhill fast
Fordina says
More performance art, wasting time on extraordinarily rare events that ultimately cost more than life without parole.
Frafwen says
More performance art, wasting time on extraordinarily rare events that ultimately cost more than life without parole.