04-23-2010, 02:03 PM
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Franchise Player
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Utah man chooses firing squad for execution
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/23...cution/?hpt=T2
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A Utah judge signed a death warrant Friday allowing the state to execute Ronnie Lee Gardner using a five-man firing squad, a spokeswoman for the Utah's state court system told CNN.
Before signing the death warrant, Third District Judge Robin Reese asked Gardner if he wanted to be executed by the method he had chosen previously, spokeswoman Nancy Volmer said.
"I would like the firing squad, please," Gardner replied.
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A change in Utah's law took the firing squad away as an execution option. But inmates, like Gardner, who have already chosen the firing squad can still be executed that way, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Seems so primitive...though I guess the end justifies the means.
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04-23-2010, 02:05 PM
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Redundant Minister of Redundancy
Self-Banned
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Awesome. Good big or go home.
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04-23-2010, 02:10 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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They should be like China and make the guy pay for the bullets. Now that's hardcore.
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04-23-2010, 02:15 PM
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
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see i'd be ok with the death penalty in Canada if it were the convicted's choice. i'm for it generally in principle, but there are way too many wrongful convictions that happen to make it a viable enforced penalty. but if someone would rather die than spend life in jail? all the power to them
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04-23-2010, 02:18 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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There's nothing primitive about a firing squad if you have read some of the horror stories regarding botched executions in modern American prisons with some lethal injections, gas, or even only 10-20 years ago when some states had the electric chair.
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04-23-2010, 02:22 PM
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Had an idea!
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
see i'd be ok with the death penalty in Canada if it were the convicted's choice. i'm for it generally in principle, but there are way too many wrongful convictions that happen to make it a viable enforced penalty. but if someone would rather die than spend life in jail? all the power to them
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The problem with that is certain convicts, even if they ARE innocent can mentally be forced into believing that they're actually guilty.
Far as I'm concerned no free society should give the government the right to kill its own citizens. Sure, emotionally we often want it, but I don't think the ends really justify the means.
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04-23-2010, 02:22 PM
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Had an idea!
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
There's nothing primitive about a firing squad if you have read some of the horror stories regarding botched executions in modern American prisons with some lethal injections, gas, or even only 10-20 years ago when some states had the electric chair.
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That is true as well.
Firing squads have a 100% success rate without failures. Line 5 guys up all with guns, and blow the guys head off.
100% success.
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04-23-2010, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Azure
That is true as well.
Firing squads have a 100% success rate without failures. Line 5 guys up all with guns, and blow the guys head off.
100% success.
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Rasputin would've survived that.
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04-23-2010, 02:32 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Azure
Far as I'm concerned no free society should give the government the right to kill its own citizens.
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well put.
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04-23-2010, 02:39 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Azure
That is true as well.
Firing squads have a 100% success rate without failures. Line 5 guys up all with guns, and blow the guys head off.
100% success.
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It's usually something like 4 guys with blanks and one guy with a real bullet aiming for the heart so nobody knows who fired the fatal shot.
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04-23-2010, 02:40 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Azure
That is true as well.
Firing squads have a 100% success rate without failures. Line 5 guys up all with guns, and blow the guys head off.
100% success.
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I am pretty sure it does not work like that. I think the protocol is they tape a target over the guys heart, and 2 of the 5 guns have bullets, the other three have blanks. And they use marksmen shooters.
As dramatic as it would be, it isn't 5 guys with shotguns 5 feet away going for a headshot kill.
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04-23-2010, 02:40 PM
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Jordan!
Join Date: Jul 2009
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Is it wrong that I think this should be the one and only method of executing prisoners??
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04-23-2010, 02:41 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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I personally think that people should be executed with a slow morphine drip
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04-23-2010, 02:51 PM
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04-23-2010, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by pylon
I am pretty sure it does not work like that. I think the protocol is they tape a target over the guys heart, and 2 of the 5 guns have bullets, the other three have blanks. And they use marksmen shooters.
As dramatic as it would be, it isn't 5 guys with shotguns 5 feet away going for a headshot kill.
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I thought only one gun had the blank and the other 4 the real bullets?
IMO it wouldnt make much sense, even with marksmen, to have only two live bullets when you need to be sure of death.
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04-23-2010, 02:56 PM
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Had an idea!
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Originally Posted by pylon
I am pretty sure it does not work like that. I think the protocol is they tape a target over the guys heart, and 2 of the 5 guns have bullets, the other three have blanks. And they use marksmen shooters.
As dramatic as it would be, it isn't 5 guys with shotguns 5 feet away going for a headshot kill.
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Yeah I know.
My way would be more effective though. 
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04-23-2010, 02:57 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by kipperfan
I thought only one gun had the blank and the other 4 the real bullets?
IMO it wouldnt make much sense, even with marksmen, to have only two live bullets when you need to be sure of death.
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You're probably right. It's the other way around with 1 blank.
Last edited by Hack&Lube; 04-23-2010 at 03:30 PM.
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04-23-2010, 03:00 PM
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Voted for Kodos
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
It's usually something like 4 guys with blanks and one guy with a real bullet aiming for the heart so nobody knows who fired the fatal shot.
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Yup, it's set up so that NO ONE, not even the shooters, knows who shoots the fatal bullet.
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04-23-2010, 03:01 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Why is this thread making me laugh out loud? I'm picturing the 5 guys lining up for headshots.. taking a shot of Jack then (pump action style) click, click...bang.. followed by bumping knuckes and high fives.
If I had my choice as an inmate.. I would choose Oilers Season Tickets.
Edit: Looked it up for fun on Wikipedia.. the result was LOL fun!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_firing_squad
Last edited by JBR; 04-23-2010 at 03:05 PM.
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04-23-2010, 03:06 PM
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All I can get
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Originally Posted by fotze
Should put Daniel Ryder and Simmer in front of one of these squads, eh Reggie?
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Actually, I subscribe to the three strikes policy.
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