Executed people have it too easy? I seem to be missing something here. Is this because once they've been executed, they get to lie around all day doing nothing?

These morons do realize that the best way to keep the death penalty is to make it as painless as possible. The more violent the state makes it, the more there will be calls to end it entirely. Why do you think France went from having the guillotine to no death penalty at all?

God help his soul, the man sounds like a sociopath. A Human should show no pride or lust for killing another human being. The system is flawed, and innocent people die from it. We should be dialing it back and abandoning it like other civilized nations, and not trying to make it even more gruesome.

Sid_6.7:

That many bullets hitting you is almost certain to result in a relatively fast, painless death. Traditionally it's also considered more honorable, particularly if you're allowed to stand. The other options not so much.


Traditionally, only one randomized member of the firing squad has a live round. Hope he doesn't miss.

Somehow I doubt this guy would be able to pull the switch or the trigger.

The Republicans: appealing to the worst in human nature since 1957.

Where are the religious leaders?

Oh yeah. They're the ones with oversized tubs of buttery popcorn at the executions.

You are either a Christian or a Republican. You cannot be both. You cannot serve both God and Mammon.

YodaTuna: Traditionally, only one randomized member of the firing squad has a live round. Hope he doesn't miss.

You NEED them to miss so you can pull a Mr. Pither.



/couldn't find a better pic

I wonder how often he looks down at others for being the worst of society.

YodaTuna: Traditionally, only one randomized member of the firing squad has a live round. Hope he doesn't miss.

Other way around -- one member has a blank, all the others have live rounds.

Sid_6.7: But really, we should adjust the gas chamber so that we asphyxiate people using nitrogen. Little chance of suffering (if your body can disperse carbon dioxide, which you can in pure nitrogen, you shouldn't feel like you're suffocating), non-toxic, inexpensive.

It also avoids the medical ethics problems inherent in lethal injection...which uses a stupid combination of chemicals in any case.

I've often wondered why we don't do this too. It's supposedly (I confess, I haven't personally tried it...) completely painless. Cheap, easy, painless... Why not use it? Ah, probably that last bit.... Gotta make them suffer some...

YodaTuna: Sid_6.7:

That many bullets hitting you is almost certain to result in a relatively fast, painless death. Traditionally it's also considered more honorable, particularly if you're allowed to stand. The other options not so much.


Traditionally, only one randomized member of the firing squad has a live round. Hope he doesn't miss.

If he does miss do you get to go free?

/thought that one had a blank and the rest had live rounds

YodaTuna: Sid_6.7:

That many bullets hitting you is almost certain to result in a relatively fast, painless death. Traditionally it's also considered more honorable, particularly if you're allowed to stand. The other options not so much.


Traditionally, only one randomized member of the firing squad has a live round. Hope he doesn't miss.

I think it's the other way, one has a blank. That way they get odds but everyone can pretend they shot the blank

The more I see of this kind of crap, the more I think the venn diagram of "people with no ethics" and "Republicans" is a perfect circle.

I honestly thought Submitter was kidding about the guy receiving his idea from a Waffle House redneck. Holy mackerel...

According to the Florida Current, the idea came to him in a local Waffle House. He reportedly overheard a constituent say that "they ought to just put them in the electric chair or line them up in front of a firing squad."

So that's how you reach the GOP. Everyone needs to start going to Waffle Houses around the country and saying things like "They ought to tax capital gains like ordinary income and use the revenue to fix our crumbling infrastructure."

A 45 cal bullet? Since when do they use handguns for executions, I thought it was rifles.

/Yeah I know there are 45 cal carbines, but I always thought they used .308 rifle rounds.
//I could be wrong. I haven't been to any executions

djkutch: When do we get a Perry Rule where officials behind executions of innocent people are forced to survive on death row by eating their own flesh, or forced feeding at a Waffle House?

It's so cute that people like you keep going on about how some 'innocent' guy was executed.

Dozens and dozens of people within the legal system are totally wrong and somehow, magically, the governor of the state is responsible for the execution... No the court, or the jury, or the legal system... Well, those don't have a nice face you can attach to them so there's nobody specific to hate, like say... A Republican governor in a state with economic policies that are working...

These policies are also known as 'the opposite of what liberals like'.

Let me restate, no innocent person has been executed in Texas or anywhere else in the United States... Or at least not within the last several decades. if there was even the slightest bit of truth 'innocent person executed' you wouldn't be able to turn on any news program from now until eternity without hearing about it all day, every day... But I'm sure the bits and pieces you've heard on the internet put you in a much better position to completely understand everything about the case in a much better fashion than the metric ton of people in the legal system who have had to examine the case dozens of times over many years, and concluded that guilt was not even in question.

Also there's just no way anti-death penalty advocates might possibly be presenting a biased view.

No clearly, after years and years and years of being examined by all kinds of legal experts and judges, they were all completely wrong.

These two guys in the 'warning: graphic' link below got executed by electricity for trying to steal power lines. They are pictured in the spot where found. So imagine some person in the electric chair being bar-b-qued. This is what it looks like. I can take a large amount of voltage and amps myself. But you may die instantly.

Warning. This link has highly graphic pics of the burned dead two. You have been warned. Do not click if you can't handle it.
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=54615
Warning. This link has highly graphic pics of the dead two. You have been warned. Do not click if you can't handle it.

/the link code is not live, to prevent easy clicking, so be warned if you go to the trouble of seeing what life is like for people outside of the money belt.
//This reminds me of the great Fark 'goat see' thread. A discussion of what it is and how people freak out over freaky random stuff.

While I know they make .45 carbines, traditionally it is a pistol round.

I suppose you could have a squad on pistol shooters, but I think Drake is tending more towards staging Monday Night Rehabilitation.



So maybe he more thinking of the other of another famous .45 caliber weapon.

The Thompson Submachine gun.

I can just picture the grin on Drake's face when the squad lights up the condemned at full auto.

Be just like Sam Peckinpah w/o the slo-mo.

/but is it really Sam Peckinpaw without the slo-mo?

oldebayer: Executed people have it too easy? I seem to be missing something here. Is this because once they've been executed, they get to lie around all day doing nothing?

Naah, it's usually a comparison/contrast to how the convicted person killed their victim. Usually they didn't give their victim a an overdose of heroin to get death row. It's more like they dragged their victim behind a pickup truck for an hour until their head was torn from their body. Or maybe the tortured and raped a little girl for a few days before suffocating her by stuffing her in a suitcase. Kinda seems that those people get off easy with an anesthetic.

I see no reason for the state to need to inflict pain in executions as it serves no interest and so lethal injection is just fine. Just speed up the process. At the same time, it's pretty obvious that compared to the crime these people committed, lethal injection is an easy way out. Those aren't opposing viewpoints.

So I was having coffee at the Waffle House the other day saying how I wish people had to pass an IQ test before running for office

Outsource to Saudi?