Originally published at: Death row inmates must now choose between electric chair or firing squad in South Carolina | Boing Boing
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I wonder if they’ll incorporate the “one random rifle is loaded with blanks” firing-squad tradition to pretend that this execution method isn’t as barbaric as any other.
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Can I pick ‘Old Age’ instead?
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This very effort reveals an important goal for those incessantly pursuing capital punishment: vengeance, cruelty, and of course racism. There are largely painless ways to snuff out a human life but they don’t want those; “cruel and unusual punishment” must always be their barbaric goal.
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i think they should practice getting into formation first. just to make sure they have it down pat.
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It’s all inhumane. Stop kidding yourself that you’re doing something nice for the executed person. The person to be killed isn’t going to enjoy it no matter what. If you admit you’re inhumane, then you can start re-using a piece of rope and a plastic bag. Horrible? Yes, but it’s all horrible.
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i have a feeling that we might soon be seeing a new use for robotics…
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It’s my opinion that, though every method of execution is necessarily barbaric (because intentionally killing somebody is barbaric, even if the person being killed is objectively horrible), some are more barbaric than others. The electric chair, the gas chamber, and lethal injection all frequently result in a long, painful process that’s excruciating for all concerned. If I’m starring in that gruesome show, I prefer a bullet aimed expertly at my heart or, for that matter, a reasonably competent hanging.
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I wonder who will decide when some inmates inevitably refuse to choose. For a Catholic, would choosing constitute the mortal sin of suicide damning their eternal soul?
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They aren’t doing it for anyone on death row, they are doing it for people who are unhappy with capital punishment but will tolerate it as long as they think it is humane. The pro-death penalty people want the executed to suffer and if given a choice will reject less painful methods of death.
On Youtube there is a video of British Tory ex-mp Michael Portillo suggesting nitrogen gas chambers to a death penalty advocate, and getting told that it was unacceptable because executed people need to suffer otherwise it isn’t justice.
The only difference will be that you won’t get to safety after you have been shot.
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I doubt the injustice system will have much trouble finding among their ranks homicidal cowards eager to commit legalized murder.
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The contemptible sociopath determined to lower himself to the moral level of his would-be victims is Robert Blecker.
https://fedsoc.org/contributors/robert-blecker
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Or, he was just continuing the long and varied history of horrific punishments under British/English law. The line forbidding “cruel and unusual punishments inflicted” is there for a reason!
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Or just volunteers from the general population looking to take their ammosexual fascist dictatorship cosplay to the next level.
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Oh, he’s quite candid in the documentary I posted that he wants the condemned to suffer as retribution for the suffering they’re convicted of inflicting on others. He’s an eye-for-an-eye kind of guy.
I’ll credit him one thing though, at least he’s honest about his motives. Even in people with whom I adamantly disagree, I unsarcastically find that an admirable quality.
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I know. Some of the Brexiters would like to bring them back (Hello, Priti Patel).
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Pulling a lever, pulling a trigger, flipping a switch… they’re all the same.
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Dan Carlin talks about this in one of his Hardcore History episodes. It wasn’t very many generations ago that the prevailing, accepted and normal thought was that criminals had to suffer in accordance with the severity of their crime.
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I’ll take death by chocolate, thanks.
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Why not both?
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