Death By Firing Squad
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wrote on 8 Mar 2025, 10:46 last edited by
Good.
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wrote on 8 Mar 2025, 11:33 last edited by Klaus 3 Aug 2025, 11:34
Wouldn't it be quicker and more reliable to shoot both the chest and the brain? I assume if you shoot just the chest you still have a few seconds whereas a bullet through the head should be immediate, no?
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Wouldn't it be quicker and more reliable to shoot both the chest and the brain? I assume if you shoot just the chest you still have a few seconds whereas a bullet through the head should be immediate, no?
wrote on 8 Mar 2025, 13:38 last edited by Jolly 3 Aug 2025, 13:40@Klaus said in Death By Firing Squad:
Wouldn't it be quicker and more reliable to shoot both the chest and the brain? I assume if you shoot just the chest you still have a few seconds whereas a bullet through the head should be immediate, no?
Brain is a smaller target. People get nervous when killing another human and the last thing you want is some guy screaming with his ear blown off...Of course, we could do it like the Chinese and just use a pistol shot to the back of the head at powder burn range.
Also, the body is the family's property after the execution. A rifle round can do some interesting things to a skull...It would take a first class undertaker to reconstruct that...
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wrote on 8 Mar 2025, 17:05 last edited by
Well, consider this: Thousands of people commit suicide by blowing their brain out. But I've never heard of suicide by shooting in the chest. There must be a reason...
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Well, consider this: Thousands of people commit suicide by blowing their brain out. But I've never heard of suicide by shooting in the chest. There must be a reason...
wrote on 8 Mar 2025, 17:28 last edited by@Klaus said in Death By Firing Squad:
Well, consider this: Thousands of people commit suicide by blowing their brain out. But I've never heard of suicide by shooting in the chest. There must be a reason...
Women often shoot themselves in the chest. Don't want to mess up their face for the casket.
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wrote on 8 Mar 2025, 17:31 last edited by
It happens. The linebacker Junior Seau shot himself in the chest to save his brain for science. Then there are stories of people stabbing themselves in the heart.
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wrote on 9 Mar 2025, 02:16 last edited by
Nitrogen. Best way.
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wrote on 9 Mar 2025, 02:46 last edited by
it's not that easy to aim a handgun into your chest. much easier to the side of the head or up ones mouth. If I had to choose between the three, after hearing some real horror stories on lethal injection, firing squad would be an easy pick for me. And fuggedabout electric chair. Their is no instantaneous death with that one.
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wrote on 9 Mar 2025, 04:37 last edited by
Any way you cut it it's a grisly, unnatural business. We'd be best off without it.
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wrote on 9 Mar 2025, 04:41 last edited by
@Mik said in Death By Firing Squad:
Any way you cut it it's a grisly, unnatural business. We'd be best off without it.
And it’s cheaper to just imprison them for life without parole.
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Well, consider this: Thousands of people commit suicide by blowing their brain out. But I've never heard of suicide by shooting in the chest. There must be a reason...
wrote on 9 Mar 2025, 21:50 last edited by@Klaus said in Death By Firing Squad:
Well, consider this: Thousands of people commit suicide by blowing their brain out. But I've never heard of suicide by shooting in the chest. There must be a reason...
A childhood friend of mine who became a cop shot himself in the chest. Presumably he did it so him mom could have an open casket funeral.
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@Mik said in Death By Firing Squad:
Any way you cut it it's a grisly, unnatural business. We'd be best off without it.
And it’s cheaper to just imprison them for life without parole.
wrote on 10 Mar 2025, 00:13 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in Death By Firing Squad:
And it’s cheaper to just imprison them for life without parole.
Agree. Death penalty is not stopping anybody from dong bad crimes.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Death By Firing Squad:
And it’s cheaper to just imprison them for life without parole.
Agree. Death penalty is not stopping anybody from dong bad crimes.
wrote on 10 Mar 2025, 02:34 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in Death By Firing Squad:
@LuFins-Dad said in Death By Firing Squad:
And it’s cheaper to just imprison them for life without parole.
Agree. Death penalty is not stopping anybody from dong bad crimes.
I beg to differ. Dead people do not commit crimes of any kind.
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@taiwan_girl said in Death By Firing Squad:
@LuFins-Dad said in Death By Firing Squad:
And it’s cheaper to just imprison them for life without parole.
Agree. Death penalty is not stopping anybody from dong bad crimes.
I beg to differ. Dead people do not commit crimes of any kind.
wrote on 10 Mar 2025, 13:19 last edited by@Jolly said in Death By Firing Squad:
I beg to differ. Dead people do not commit crimes of any kind.
Hmm, Someone smarter than I could do a data analysis to show that death penalty does not result and any change in (violent?) crime rate.
I am not against the death penalty, but to say that a reason to have it is because it prevents crime I dont believe is true. I think that the reason people want to have it is for "revenge", which I can understand.
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wrote on 10 Mar 2025, 14:59 last edited by
I think it reduces crime in those who are considering acts rather rationally, but I don't think that's the majority of heinous crimes.
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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.