Fla. lawmaker wants to bring back firing squads

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/10/13/fla_lawmaker_wants_to_bring_back_firing_squads/

By Gary Fineout
Associated Press / October 13, 2011

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Saying it's time to stop letting convicted killers "get off that easy," a Florida state lawmaker wants to use firing squads or the electric chair for those on death row.

Rep. Brad Drake filed a bill this week that would end the use of lethal injection in Florida executions. Instead, those with a death sentence would choose between electrocution or a firing squad.

Drake, a Republican, said the idea came to him after having a conversation with a constituent at a Waffle House over the legal battles associated with the Sept. 28 execution of Manuel Valle.

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1. There's a thought

Granted, such a move will probably cost the state millions to defend in court, but what's a little taxpayer money in the service of sadism?

[Tesha]

2. Why not drawing, quartering, and disemboweling in the public square?

The rabble ought to really get off on that!

Tesha

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[krispos42]

4. Well, that's probably more certain than the gas chamber or lethal injection.

A 3-inch magnum 12-gage shotgun shell loaded with 15 pellets of double-aught buckshot from 10 yards? Yeah, that's a very quick and certain death.


My personal choice would be a block of C-4 strapped to my head. Instant death, no chance of survival.


Messy, but instant and certain.

[MrSlayer]

5. Dead is dead.

What's the difference between methods used?

[janehicks]

6. BACK FIRING SQUADS

Thank you for posting an interesting topic here. Just a while ago, I read an article entitled "Florida bill would bring back death by firing squad". Florida Rep. Brad Drake desires the state's system of capital punishment to ramp it up from lethal cocktail. He has released Florida HB 325, a bill that would bring firing squads or the electric chair back to death row. Convicts would be allowed to choose between either of these replacements for the narcotic cocktail. I believe that capital punishment permanently removes the worst criminals from society, therefore, it proves to be safer for us than long term or permanent incarceration. Why? Because dead criminals cannot commit any further crimes, either within prison or after escaping or after being released from it. But we must also consider that criminals are REAL PEOPLE too who have life and have all other emotions that the rest of us are capable of feeling. Now, do you think pronouncing a death sentence will be a better penalty or is too brutal?

[SwissTony]

7. It also permanently removes some entirely innocent non-criminals. nt