Firing Squad?!?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:58:09 Post Subject: Firing Squad?!?

I didn't know a firing squad was an option for a death sentence... Sounds a little wild west to me.

But looks like we won't see many/any more based on this story...

ABC News

knight0334 · Posted: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:37:23 Post Subject:

Oklahoma still has the firing squad. Washington State still has hanging.

x.clay · Posted: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:53:57 Post Subject:

seems a little weird to me as well - more so than hanging.

Asylum · Posted: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:40:10 Post Subject:

Its not the firing squad that sounds weird to me, its the 25 years it took after he was sentenced. Are you kidding 25 years??? What happened to taking someone outback behind the courthouse and getting it over with.

Charlie · Posted: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:42:26 Post Subject: Re: Firing Squad?!?

knight0334 · Posted: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:02:56 Post Subject: Re: Firing Squad?!?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:11:57 Post Subject:

Yea, I love the argument "He's a different man now than he was 25 yrs ago."

I bet the people he killed would have been different people too.

Optix · Posted: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:33:23 Post Subject:

My wife and I are always going off on how the penal system is a joke.

Here in Canada there was an inmate who was serving a life sentence with no chance for parol but was receiving $1000 a month in old age benefits while getting free room and meals on our dime.

Another guy who chopped the head off a passenger on a Greyhound bus and got off on the whole insanity plea is now being allowed to have supervised outdoor periods.

To hell with that. You do the crime, you do the time. You forfeit all but the basic human rights - you are treated like a human being but you sit in your cell and rot or, if you're not in Canada you get your death sentence after a certain period of time has passed for you to try and clear your name.

I need a drink!

Asylum · Posted: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:46:08 Post Subject: