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Is bringing back firing squads for executions a good idea?

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By MICHAEL TARM

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More gun deaths? Sounds gruesomely appropriate for the US.

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I see nothing wrong with a convicted murderer being executed in the same manner as their victim(s), e.g., stabbing, drowning, strangulation, gunshot, etc.

Cruel and unusual punishment should not be used to punish people convicted for lesser property crimes or other crimes in the US like peeing in public. For example, no whipping, starvation, housed in dungeons shacked to walls, etc.

Pre-meditated or mass murder? Execution doesn’t seem cruel or unusual.

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The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison into the chest of a condemned prisoner may conjure up a less enlightened country.

I wonder what kind of person volunteers to be part of a firing squad.

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A blank cartridge was loaded into one rifle without anyone knowing which. That's partly done to enable those bothered later by their participation to believe they may not have fired a fatal bullet.

Any competent gun user knows whether he has fired a blank or fired a live round.

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I wonder what kind of person volunteers to be part of a firing squad.

Someone who considers the rights/life of the victim more important than the waste of space who murdered them.

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That photo is unearthly, if execution is the preferred outcome then capital punishment is neatly serviced suspending the accused from the neck with a noose or ligature

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barbaric

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Be Real!

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Live and die by the sword.

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Flight Deck,

the majority of countries have abolished the death penalty, or no longer use it, including 18 American states.

I have never been in favor of the death penalty.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

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