🤔 South Carolina Firing Squad Excursion

[bogey1]

I've hear there's always one extra shooter firing a blank cartridge, so the shooters could not actually know if they fired a bullet or not. That may be urban legend though. I don't know.

I think thats a myth, the guy with the blank would know. I also think there are three holes in that chair

[JAKIII]

I've hear there's always one extra shooter firing a blank cartridge, so the shooters could not actually know if they fired a bullet or not. That may be urban legend though. I don't know.

Nah, all three shooters were volunteers... they wanted to kill that fucker.

[ROCK-IT3]

I think thats a myth, the guy with the blank would know. I also think there are three holes in that chair

Possibly a myth, yes, but if there were four shooters, with one shooting a blank, there would still be only three holes.

My question is, why do they shoot at the heart, instead of the head? Three rounds of .30-06 to the head simultaneously would be an extremely quick death (not that I care if the guy suffered a little bit).

[JAKIII]

My question is, why do they shoot at the heart, instead of the head? Three rounds of .30-06 to the head simultaneously would be an extremely quick death (not that I care if the guy suffered a little bit).

Eight Amendment to the Constitution protects US citizens from cruel and unusual punishment.

The fact that it took the guy 80 seconds to die meets the definition of "cruel"... so, to your point a headshot probably would have been instant and not cruel.

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-c...ii/clauses/103

[streaker69]

Eight Amendment to the Constitution protects US citizens from cruel and unusual punishment.

The fact that it took the guy 80 seconds to die meets the definition of "cruel"... so, to your point a headshot probably would have been instant and not cruel.

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-c...ii/clauses/103

The way the 8th is worded, the punishment has to be both cruel and unusual, not cruel or unusual. If firing squad become the common method of execution then it's not unusual.

[JAKIII]

The way the 8th is worded, the punishment has to be both cruel and unusual, not cruel or unusual. If firing squad become the common method of execution then it's not unusual.

Ok, counselor.

[bigandy1966]

Reading the title I thought we were lining up a trip down south to watch some good old fashioned old schooling.
Sigh....alas.

[Frizratz]

How long did it take his victims to die?

Excellent question

[Brick]

Why does this always take 20 or more years to get done! Convict on Tuesday, execute on Thursday! Wednesday is for an automatic judicial revue of the conviction.

[Brick]

Agree! The idea that the condemned get to die a painless death is stupidity! Personally i think public hangings should reinstituted!