Death By Firing Squad
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wrote on 10 Mar 2025, 15:12 last edited by
Lots of mentally deficient people, and lots of people with horrific childhoods, end up on death row. Since it's cheaper anyway, we should probably let them spend their lives in prison.
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wrote on 10 Mar 2025, 16:09 last edited by
The average time between sentencing and execution in 2021 was 233 months, almost 20 years. I think that alone is cruel and unusual, given the lack of anything you could call a life on death row.
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wrote on 10 Mar 2025, 16:35 last edited by
I think I'm the only one here that routinely visited jails and prisons.
Cruel is a life in prison.
By the time you die, nobody cares or wants you. They put you in a cardboard box and bury you in the pauper's field with a number tag or in the prison graveyard.
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I think I'm the only one here that routinely visited jails and prisons.
Cruel is a life in prison.
By the time you die, nobody cares or wants you. They put you in a cardboard box and bury you in the pauper's field with a number tag or in the prison graveyard.
wrote on 10 Mar 2025, 16:41 last edited by@Jolly said in Death By Firing Squad:
I think I'm the only one here that routinely visited jails and prisons.
Cruel is a life in prison.
By the time you die, nobody cares or wants you. They put you in a cardboard box and bury you in the pauper's field with a number tag or in the prison graveyard.
If you asked them, would they tell you they'd rather be dead?
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I think I'm the only one here that routinely visited jails and prisons.
Cruel is a life in prison.
By the time you die, nobody cares or wants you. They put you in a cardboard box and bury you in the pauper's field with a number tag or in the prison graveyard.
wrote on 10 Mar 2025, 16:50 last edited by@Jolly said in Death By Firing Squad:
Cruel is a life in prison.
This. Life in prison is a pretty severe sentence.
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@Jolly said in Death By Firing Squad:
I think I'm the only one here that routinely visited jails and prisons.
Cruel is a life in prison.
By the time you die, nobody cares or wants you. They put you in a cardboard box and bury you in the pauper's field with a number tag or in the prison graveyard.
If you asked them, would they tell you they'd rather be dead?
wrote on 10 Mar 2025, 19:17 last edited by@Horace said in Death By Firing Squad:
@Jolly said in Death By Firing Squad:
I think I'm the only one here that routinely visited jails and prisons.
Cruel is a life in prison.
By the time you die, nobody cares or wants you. They put you in a cardboard box and bury you in the pauper's field with a number tag or in the prison graveyard.
If you asked them, would they tell you they'd rather be dead?
Some do.
Especially at Angola, I used to talk with the cons a lot.
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wrote on 10 Mar 2025, 22:18 last edited by Renauda 3 Oct 2025, 22:21
When I was a Reservist there was a meathead (military police) Master Warrant Officer who would drop by our section for coffee and routine gossip with our senior NCO’s. His civi street job, if you want call it that, was a prison guard at the maximum security prison block northwest of the city. He had zero sympathy for the inmates and maintained each and every last one would sooner slit one another’s throat than give them the time of day. He also said they loved to live in their filth out of choice. He also figured the gorilla cage at the Calgary Zoo was more a 1000 times more civilized than even the medium security bloc in the same institution he worked. He loved doing Reservist work because it offered a catharsis from his day job.
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wrote 9 days ago last edited by
A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina’s second firing squad execution was conscious and likely suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute after the bullets, meant to quickly stop his heart, struck him lower than expected, according to a pathologist hired by his attorneys.
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wrote 9 days ago last edited by
Seems like an awful way to go. Not as awful as the electric chair. Imagine thinking that shocking someone to death is the best answer for a "humane and painless" way to end their lives.
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wrote 9 days ago last edited by
Yes, and if you don’t wipe out their consciousness on the first jolt, well that’s ok because you’re going to cook them from the inside out with the next one. Jesus.
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wrote 9 days ago last edited by
Seems to me the closest thing to humane execution, insofar as that’s not an oxymoron, is lethal injection where the first shot just puts you to sleep.
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Seems to me the closest thing to humane execution, insofar as that’s not an oxymoron, is lethal injection where the first shot just puts you to sleep.
wrote 9 days ago last edited by@jon-nyc said in Death By Firing Squad:
Seems to me the closest thing to humane execution, insofar as that’s not an oxymoron, is lethal injection where the first shot just puts you to sleep.
We don't worry about whether putting dogs to sleep is hurting them, and my assumption is that it doesn't. Most of us probably care a lot more for our dogs than we do for the people being executed in prisons.
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wrote 8 days ago last edited by
NItrogen FTW. LOL
I know a guy who got gassed by it. He was in a refinery in Indonesia and entered a vessel that had high nitrogen. Next thing he knew, he woke up in a hospital in Singapore. Said there was absolutely no sensation of anything wrong. One minute, breathing normally......... and then remembers nothing.
