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-Short Attention Span Theater-

Two Oklahoma death row inmates seek death by FIRING SQUAD after multiple botched lethal injections by which saw prisoners die in agony

2022-01-12

[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]

Donald Grant and Gilbert Postelle requested a firing squad as an alternative to lethal injection after several botched executions by the state

A trial is set to begin before Judge Friot on February 28, but Grant is scheduled to be put to death on January 27, while Postelle is set for execution on February 17

'While it may be gruesome to look at, we all agree it will be quicker,' attorney Jim Stronski told Friot after a day-long hearing in Oklahoma City

Grant was convicted of killing two Del City hotel workers in 2001, while Postelle was sentenced to die for his role in a 2005 quadruple slaying

An emergency medicine specialist said that unlike lethal injection, there is an extremely low likelihood that a firing squad execution would be botched

The news follows recent lethal injections of death row inmates John Marion Grant, which was botched, and Bigler Stouffer

The drug mix-ups followed a botched execution in 2014 in which inmate Clayton Lockett struggled on a gurney before dying 43 minutes into his lethal injection

So, dead. Not botched

Posted by:Skidmark

#7 Be alot cheaper

Posted by: Chris 2022-01-12 23:33

#6 "An emergency medicine specialist said that unlike lethal injection, there is an extremely low likelihood that a firing squad execution would be botched"
Blessed Miguel Pro, a Mexican Jesuit, was executed in 1927 as part of the Cristero War. He was shot by a firing squad, but it didn't kill him. He had to be killed by a soldier at close range.

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2022-01-12 13:39

#5 Make Fauxi the nation's "death penalty czar." Problem solved.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-12 10:30

#4 I'm surprised nobody has demanded this before. Lethal injection is more about the viewers and not turning people against death penalty than it is the peaceful passing of the executed.

Posted by: ruprecht 2022-01-12 10:27

#3 Exact same way they killed their victims I think would be appropriate.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-12 08:21

#2 ^^And after the initial construction, pretty cheaply.

Unless OSHA is involved....

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-01-12 08:19

#1 Madame Guillotine works quick and swift.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-01-12 07:28

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