Post by robeiae on May 13, 2017 9:05:19 GMT -5
www.cnn.com/2017/05/12/us/firing-squad-georgia-death-penalty/index.html
I don't know if the argument they're making holds water, but I do know this: if I was sentenced to death and was given a choice of how to die, I'd take "firing squad" in a heartbeat over "lethal injection." Really, I'd prefer the guillotine, first and foremost.
Here's a piece at LiveScience on the efficacy of execution methods currently "on the books": www.livescience.com/10767-execution-science-kill-person.html
Gas chamber? No thank you. Electrocution? Even worse. Death by hanging can be clean, but it can also go very wrong.
Death penalty arguments aside, what method do you think would be the best?
A Georgia inmate is asking to be executed by a firing squad because he says lethal injection would be too painful for him.
Convicted murderer J.W. Ledford Jr. takes a pain medication, gabapentin, that changed his brain chemistry so much the lethal injection drug pentobarbital might not make him unconscious and would cause him "to suffer an excruciating death," according to documents filed by his lawyer in US District Court.
"Mr. Ledford proposes that the firing squad is a readily implemented and more reliable alternative method of execution that would eliminate the risks posed to him by lethal injection," his lawyers said in court papers filed Thursday.
Convicted murderer J.W. Ledford Jr. takes a pain medication, gabapentin, that changed his brain chemistry so much the lethal injection drug pentobarbital might not make him unconscious and would cause him "to suffer an excruciating death," according to documents filed by his lawyer in US District Court.
"Mr. Ledford proposes that the firing squad is a readily implemented and more reliable alternative method of execution that would eliminate the risks posed to him by lethal injection," his lawyers said in court papers filed Thursday.
Here's a piece at LiveScience on the efficacy of execution methods currently "on the books": www.livescience.com/10767-execution-science-kill-person.html
Gas chamber? No thank you. Electrocution? Even worse. Death by hanging can be clean, but it can also go very wrong.
Death penalty arguments aside, what method do you think would be the best?
