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Christa Pike seeks firing squad, not lethal injection: Inside US executions
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Could be as simple as not wanting to risk botched lethal injection. Less painfull to get shot in the head and heart. Well as long as the shooters don't botch that, but that is rather harder to botch. Lethal injection one can botch in invisible, not immediately obvious ways.
Obviously extremely uncommon, but I remember there being some guy that survived both a firing squad's volley and the subsequent mercy shot to the head. Might have been in...Spain?
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Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslao_Moguel
Jesus, and he lived over 60 years after that!
Chumbawamba wrote a fucking song about him?! How did I not know this? It's like hearing the story from a barbershop quartet.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lPVhWFbAO4E
Yeah.... Cruelty is the point. It's kinda ridiculous how bad the state is at killing people when they try to sanitize their actions. Any dentist could tell you how to execute a person painlessly. If you just start a normal nitrous oxide/oxygen mix and then up the nitrous to a hundred percent over time, or if you wanted to go even faster have them switch to regular nitrogen, we could avoid all this.
But I don't think the state would allow prisoners to go out in a manor that was pleasant or even pleasurable.