John Grant won’t be down for supper

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If they did death by firing squad it would only cost a .50¢ bullet. I have No sympathy for a savage like him. Deuces! Hope Satan is shanking him in hell.
Unfortunately the firing squad doesn't work with one bullet.
Gary Gilmore was executed if I remember right with a rack of 30-30 lever action rifles with triggers pulled by a string, one being a dummy so nobody knew who had the dummy round because they couldn't feel the recoil.

The latest by firing squad was Ronnie Lee Gardner.
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The Utah Department of Corrections provided Gardner's attorney, Andrew Parnes, with documentation about executions by firing squad and lethal injection. The records included the Utah execution team's training and expertise. Parnes relayed the information to Gardner after agreeing not to disclose it to anyone else.

On June 15, 2010, Gardner ate a last meal of steak, lobster tail, apple pie, vanilla ice cream and 7-Up, before beginning a 48-hour fast while watching The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and reading Divine Justice.[55] According to his lawyers, the fast was motivated by "spiritual reasons."[3] Gardner was visited by an LDS bishop and his family before his execution.[48][56] Gardner walked voluntarily to his place of execution.[57] When asked if he had any last words, he responded, "I do not, no."[58]


Gardner was executed on the metal chair at the right side of this chamber in Utah State Prison. The two narrow rifle ports can be seen in the middle-left.[3]
Gardner was executed on June 18, 2010, at 12:15 am Mountain Daylight Time[55] by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in Draper. He was placed in restraints on a black metal chair with a hood covering his head. Sandbags were arranged around him to absorb ricochets. The firing squad was made up of five anonymous volunteers who were certified police officers. The officers stood about 25 feet (7.6 m) from Gardner, aiming at a white target positioned over his heart. One of their .30-caliber Winchester rifles was selected at random and loaded with a non-lethal wax bullet so that they would not know with certainty who fired the fatal shots.[2] According to the Utah Department of Corrections, the squad used a countdown cadence beginning with five and simultaneously firing right before two.[57] His dark blue jumpsuit made it difficult to see the blood from his wounds.[48] A medical examiner removed Gardner's hood to reveal his lifeless face. After verifying Gardner's lack of pulse at the neck and pupillary light reflex, the medical examiner pronounced him dead at 12:17 am.[55] He was the first person to be executed by firing squad in the United States since the execution of John Albert Taylor 14 years earlier.[3] A commemorative coin was commissioned for prison staff who participated in the execution.[59] Gardner's friends and family gathered outside the prison at a candlelight vigil while playing "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.[60] They did not witness his execution, per his request. Some wore shirts with his prisoner number 14873.[57] His body was cremated and released to his daughter to be taken back to Idaho with family members.[56]
 

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It is unfortunate they didn't just line them up this evening and run through them -- like working a herd of cattle. Get it done and over with. They've already lived longer than they should have.

I don't mind a mandatory appeals process but 15 minutes after you have exhausted your last appeal you should just have a bullet put in the back of your head and get your ass tossed in the incinerator. We spend WAY too much money and time on these animals.
 

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Unfortunately the firing squad doesn't work with one bullet.
Gary Gilmore was executed if I remember right with a rack of 30-30 lever action rifles with triggers pulled by a string, one being a dummy so nobody knew who had the dummy round because they couldn't feel the recoil.

The latest by firing squad was Ronnie Lee Gardner.
From Wiki:
The Utah Department of Corrections provided Gardner's attorney, Andrew Parnes, with documentation about executions by firing squad and lethal injection. The records included the Utah execution team's training and expertise. Parnes relayed the information to Gardner after agreeing not to disclose it to anyone else.

On June 15, 2010, Gardner ate a last meal of steak, lobster tail, apple pie, vanilla ice cream and 7-Up, before beginning a 48-hour fast while watching The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and reading Divine Justice.[55] According to his lawyers, the fast was motivated by "spiritual reasons."[3] Gardner was visited by an LDS bishop and his family before his execution.[48][56] Gardner walked voluntarily to his place of execution.[57] When asked if he had any last words, he responded, "I do not, no."[58]


Gardner was executed on the metal chair at the right side of this chamber in Utah State Prison. The two narrow rifle ports can be seen in the middle-left.[3]
Gardner was executed on June 18, 2010, at 12:15 am Mountain Daylight Time[55] by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in Draper. He was placed in restraints on a black metal chair with a hood covering his head. Sandbags were arranged around him to absorb ricochets. The firing squad was made up of five anonymous volunteers who were certified police officers. The officers stood about 25 feet (7.6 m) from Gardner, aiming at a white target positioned over his heart. One of their .30-caliber Winchester rifles was selected at random and loaded with a non-lethal wax bullet so that they would not know with certainty who fired the fatal shots.[2] According to the Utah Department of Corrections, the squad used a countdown cadence beginning with five and simultaneously firing right before two.[57] His dark blue jumpsuit made it difficult to see the blood from his wounds.[48] A medical examiner removed Gardner's hood to reveal his lifeless face. After verifying Gardner's lack of pulse at the neck and pupillary light reflex, the medical examiner pronounced him dead at 12:17 am.[55] He was the first person to be executed by firing squad in the United States since the execution of John Albert Taylor 14 years earlier.[3] A commemorative coin was commissioned for prison staff who participated in the execution.[59] Gardner's friends and family gathered outside the prison at a candlelight vigil while playing "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.[60] They did not witness his execution, per his request. Some wore shirts with his prisoner number 14873.[57] His body was cremated and released to his daughter to be taken back to Idaho with family members.[56]
A commemorative coin was commissioned??? Seriously!! Wow....
 

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It's a dirty shame that some people do things so terrible they deserve the death penalty, but they do! I for one think these maggots victims deserve at least equal time in the media! That would likely change some peoples opinion on the justification of this form of punishment, don't you think?
 

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Leftist media & the anti death penalty crowd will be *****ing about the vomiting & so called convulsions & will claim that is reason to stop the 3 drug process. However, both of these are known side effects of Versed. We’ve used it a lot as conscious sedation for cardioversion‘s etc. I‘ve pushed it lots of times & have only seen tremors in a few patients. The dosage for execution would be massive compared to regular clinical use, so the tremors & vomiting would not be unexpected, I’m guessing.
Personally i say screw the Left and just go back to using a firing squad within one year of being found guilty. If the case can't be turned around within one year, it probably won't be turned around in 20!
 

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