If you kill someone in South Carolina, they now stand ready to kill you back. With difficulties in obtaining the drugs needed for lethal injections, the Palmetto State once again has accommodations for firing squad executions in addition to Ol’ Sparky, the electric chair for carrying out death sentences. Yes, for those who don’t want … Read more
In the wake of pharmaceutical manufacturer embargoes and a botched execution attempt in Ohio, several state legislatures are considering bringing back the firing squad. Which way would you rather go? Or alternately (and let’s not get too gruesome here) how would you send murderers back to hell, the drip or the bullet? . . .
British intellectuals view Americans as uneducated, naive, stupid, racist, intolerant, insular, easily manipulated, arrogant and violent. On a good day. If you thought Barack Obama’s election would have softened the Oxbridge elite’s opinion of their American cousins, guess again. “It is the first execution by firing squad in the United States for 14 years but the return of raw frontier justice has shocked many Americans. It puts the spotlight on the barbarism of a nation that still kills criminals by the electric chair, gas chamber, hanging and lethal injection.” The “many” referred to here probably includes (i.e. is limited to) the left coast liberals with which LA-lovin’ Daily Express scribe Peter Sheridan hangs. “The death penalty is an anachronism in a world where most civilised nations have eliminated executions.” Nations like . . . the UK! “America still uses hanging, which Britain abandoned after its last execution in 1964, and the gas chamber and electric chair though both can cause drawn-out and agonising deaths. And now the firing squad is bringing back the antiquated notion of justice at the barrel of a gun.”
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