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Nevada death row inmate asks to be killed by firing squad

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Physically painless, perhaps, but is certainly a way to inflict mental agony. After all, the inmate gets to sit there and wait.

If we were serious about making it painless, a shotgun blast to the back of the head would do the trick. Or the guillotine. But those are messy and we can't have any onlookers feeling queasy.
 
Mr Person said:
Physically painless, perhaps, but is certainly a way to inflict mental agony. After all, the inmate gets to sit there and wait.

If we were serious about making it painless, a shotgun blast to the back of the head would do the trick. Or the guillotine. But those are messy and we can't have any onlookers feeling queasy.
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France used the Guillitione until they abolished the death penalty in the 1970s

I am not opposed to the death penalty, but I believe there’s no need to sanitize it and make it seem clinical.
When Washington state brought back the DP in the 80s they brought back hanging. Charles Campbell was hung and before then he filed a legal challenge arguing it was cruel and unusual, US district court judge John Coughneour (one of the most honorable men to ever wear robes) wrote “Campbell is not entitled to a painless death, only one free of wanton cruelty” I think that’s the standard to use.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
France used the Guillitione until they abolished the death penalty in the 1970s

I am not opposed to the death penalty, but I believe there’s no need to sanitize it and make it seem clinical.
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Why bother making it quick or painless at all? If we're going to keep the death penalty, why not make it as brutal and terrifying as possible? Don't hide it away in a prison room. Do it in public, as violently and bloodily as possible. Really force the public to come to terms with what it means to kill a human being. Then we'll see if they still support the death penalty.
 
Irredentist said:
Why bother making it quick or painless at all? If we're going to keep the death penalty, why not make it as brutal and terrifying as possible? Don't hide it away in a prison room. Do it in public, as violently and bloodily as possible. Really force the public to come to terms with what it means to kill a human being. Then we'll see if they still support the death penalty.
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Public versus private execution is a prudential matter, neither is moral or immoral.

However the death penalty cannot be a form of physical torture. That is gravely immoral. Covering someone with blood and throwing them in a shark tank (assuming the sharks will eat him alize, I am not an expert in shark behavior but this is merely a hypothetical) would be wrong. A form of execution intended to cause a quick death is not.
 
Those States that have a death penalty having varying methods of execution. Most, like Nevada, are by lethal injection (Lethal injection is the sole method of execution in Nevada. [Nev. Rev. Stat. Ann. §176.355]). Some States, like New Hampshire, still have hangings. While other States, like Mississippi, will allow a firing squad. Kentucky and Nebraska still have electrocutions as a means for execution.

Those alternative forms of execution, however, are only if lethal injection is held to be unconstitutional. Even then, it is often followed by nitrogen hypoxia as the alternative means, determined by the State. Hangings, firing squads, and electrocutions are only used if execution by nitrogen hypoxia is also deemed to be unconstitutional.

Either way, the State makes the determination on the method of execution, not the one being executed.
 
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