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Mississippi lawmakers are advancing a proposal to add firing squad, electrocution and gas chamber as execution methods in case a court blocks the use of lethal injection drugs.
House Bill 638 is a response to lawsuits filed by "liberal, left-wing radicals," said House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Andy Gipson, a Republican.
NBC News: Mississippi Advances Bill to Bring Back Firing Squad Executions
It's a darn shame the Friendly Giant of ISIS™ was recently killed or they could have hired him and added beheading to their list of approved execution methods.
A notorious Isis executioner who beheaded hundreds of innocent citizens has been stabbed to death by a hit squad in north west Iraq.
Man mountain Abu Sayyaf was one of the terror group’s main executioners and appeared in many of the group’s propaganda videos showing brutal decapitations.
Mississippi is one of 32 US states with the death penalty. Yes, in 2017. Oh how far we have come as a nation to be on par with Islamic State, which has firing squad as one of its approved execution methods. Perhaps Mississippi should consider adding other ISIS-favored methods such as stoning and throwing off buildings. Why go for half measures when you can go full-on 6th century?
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I'm told beheading
is actually less painful than all of the above.
And we could run live executions at the half-times of sporting events! Think of the sponsorship opportunities!
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
Totally anecdotal,
but I remember reading decades ago about during the French Revolution one guillotine victim had someone observe his head immediately afterwards while he counted. The decapitated got to thirteen before he stopped. No report on if he threw a 'Mississippi' between the counts or if this is the point it finally sunk in what was happening and he decided to just say EFF it!
Ya know any execution has gotta hurt! I think if I was up for execution, I'd opt for a det-cord turban. How good looking a corpse I leave would be well down the list of worries.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
Urban legend, I think
There are a lot of them connected with the guillotine, including of course the famous one about the inventor perishing by his own device (he didn't).
Not a one of them has been irrefutably confirmed, and practically all of them have been discredited.
Earlier forms of execution could be severely botched - e.g. the infamous case of the Countess de la Pole, who was literally butchered by an incompetent headsman. But the guillotine was set up to be foolproof, and pretty much was.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Sorta my thought when I read it years ago.
I'd've thought the instant BP drop would cause near instant shock. Then I thought just maybe be in the realm of possibility that may be the time unconsciousness occurs when the brain is oxygen deprived. But for all I know nerve impulses to move lips is routed through the big toe. No toe no lip movement. The body is a crap design for a machine.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
The LII Superbowl of Beheading!
A sure ratings winner for Fox.
(No subject)
They say that there's a broken light for every heart on Broadway
They say that life's a game and then they take the board away
They give you masks and costumes and an outline of the story
And leave you all to improvise their vicious cabaret-- A. Moore
American Privilege strikes again!
USA, USA, USA!
That Republican lawmaker is
Boy Scout prepared, huh?
If you can't legally kill a person one way, you must be prepared to do it another way, or another, or another. That there is a ton of thoughtful alternatives.
Wish those kinds of thoughtful alternatives were available when we were passing the ACA, or when we were addressing a response to 9/11.
Layers, alternatives, options, pre-planning...deep thought for killing, nothing for saving lives.
We are so 3rd World nowadays.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
How about we give d p prisoners the option
Of listening to an endless loop of Hillary Clinton videos or any of the above options? Im betting they'd beg for a bullet after 5 minutes. Sorry, shouldn't joke about life and death
Nothing Better To Do?
One would think Mississippi legislators had other priorities besides spending time discussing execution by firing squad. Nina Simone has a good response to Mississippi:
What would Jesus do?
How would Jesus execute someone? Firing squad, lethal injection, or electrocution?
How about all three? Praise the lord!
(I lived in southern Mississippi for several years, and many of my ancestors were from north MS, north Alabama, and southern middle Tennessee. Christianity, especially the Baptist variety, is basically the state religion in those parts.)
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone