Utah's state House votes 39-34 to reinstitute execution by firing squad

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You have to think, what type of person would actually volunteer to serve on a firing squad? Yech.

I think I've said before that one of the many reasons why I oppose the death penalty is I'd never be willing to carry out an execution myself, so it'd be kind of hypocritical to ask the state to do it anyway.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You have to think, what type of person would actually volunteer to serve on a firing squad? Yech.

I'm sure it's a paid position.  perhaps even a union job ("correctional officer" and executioner are synonyms, we all know that).  though you could probably get a few John Birch types to volunteer for such a job.

Well like all executions it's not frequent enough that "execution" through any means can be a full time job. So it's probably some other role one can take if they work in the prison system, and you can imagine the lawsuits and controversies that'd arise if a guard was ever told "execute this person or be fired". So I'd imagine all employees who serve on such a role are volunteers.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Far more humane than lethal injection.

they should use opiates for lethal injection.  shoot 3 grams of heroin into a dude.

I've never understood why lethal injection is so "hard."

People manage to kill themselves with heroin and various opiates and barbituates every day. If you're going to kill someone, why not just give them a bottle of Darvon/Percocet/Vicodin/etc and a Long Island Iced Tea and let what happens happen?

The goal is to make it virtually painless and free of complications. Obviously not a guarantee with a standard drug overdose. Though obviously not a guarantee with the way lethal injections are currently done either.