Firing squad? Really?

This is going to sound insane, but it probably would be more humane if someone shot him point blank. Obviously, I know you can't do that because it might be hard to find a cop willing to do it.

 

Did he get one last cigarette?

Oh wait, it was Utah.

 

And there's a factual inaccuracy in the first graf. Nice.

 

The weapons used were rifles, which shoot bullets, and not shotguns.

Four bullets placed in a small heart-sized area will leave small entry wounds. The exit wound, depending on the design of the bullet, could be larger due to expansion of the bullet inside the chest cavity. But the expansion is what rips apart the heart and the concussion inside the chest cavity also damages or destroys other organs.

I would rather be shot by four bullets fired by experienced marksmen than strapped to a gurney with chemicals coursing through my veins that will take longer to make me die.

 

They all volunteer for the job. So I doubt there is any guilt.

 

He asked for coffee and they wouldn't let him have that either.

 

Just seems kind of odd that the state decides to put you to death, but hey, we will let you choose the method, because we don't want to be assholes. When the hell did executions become Burger King?

 

That's how the procedure is supposed to work. However, here's an article that questions whether lethal injection is any more humane than electrocution or the gas chamber.Here's the article:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7269-execution-by-injection-far-from-painless.html

 

Weren't they forced to do that after losing a court case?

 

People can question whether the death penalty is ever appropriate (i.e., the Innocence Project), but while it is legal and when there is no doubt (as in this case), I don't give a damn how "humane" it is. He deserved the punishment. He didn't deserve mercy.