Here’s an interesting situation:
...gives a whole new meaning to the term “jury duty”, dunnit? Oh, wait: “only open to law enforcement officers”?
…and for the curious:
The state has purchased five Daniel Defense DD5-P rifles chambered in .308 Winchester, fitted with scopes, suppressors and bipods, at a cost of more than $24,000.
Bipods and scopes… at 10 yards? WTF? I mean:
Seems like an awfully-complicated and expensive way just to whack a convicted murdering scumbag, but that’s Gummint all over, right? I’m more of a traditionalist, in that I think the old “single bullet in the back of the neck” method would be just as effective, not to say much cheaper.
But no doubt someone’s going to have a problem with this.
Okay, all jokes aside: I happen to be a supporter of the death penalty and execution of the worst of scumbags, as any Reader of this website will know full well. The method of execution is irrelevant.
We’ve tried making it a kinder, gentler way of seeing off a scumbag by using the oh-so gentle lethal injection — following all sorts of issues with hanging, decapitation, electrocution and the gas chamber (itself an attempt to make killing someone less brutal).
Well, the injection thing has been cocked up so many times, and is so beset with difficulties in terms of lethal drug supply and so on, that Idaho has decided to go with what is surely the most effective method of execution: gunfire.
Let’s not get squeamish about all this. If you’re going to execute someone, it’s best to make it quick, simple and effective — something that the murderers probably didn’t afford their victims, by the way — and death by three .308 bullets to the heart is about as effective as any, short of another old way of using gunfire as punishment:
Effective, but loud and very messy (“Cleanup in lane 2!”).
Yeah, this is all very ghoulish and brutal and stuff, but just remember who’s on the chopping block here, being the worst of the worst: child murderers, people who killed someone for a few dollars at a 7-11, men who raped and tortured women before murdering them, etc. etc.
These people do not deserve to live, so fuck ’em. A .308 bullet to the heart is all they deserve.
So, not squeamish about the idea of the death penalty….but.
Mistakes can, and have been made. Not often. But still.
So I shifted my mostly lifelong approval of the death penalty to not approving it, unless the crime/incident is recorded and unchallenged by he accused.
Not saying the convicted (if absent video proof of the event) should get cake and ice cream .
Just that, in the rare instance the justice system fucks up, we can attempt to compensate for a wrongful conviction . Much harder to undue “death”.
All that said….Nitrogen.
Cheap motorcycle helmet wit a neck seal, and pump in nitrogen until they are dead.
No muss, no fuss, no pain.
Nothing exotic.
Just “gone”.