Reply #70: Yeah, that's the thing: He requested this method. [View All]

[Withywindle]

If we're going to put people to death, I really don't have a problem with them getting to choose the method. It's the least we can do.

Every time there's an execution, someone has to do it. Electric chair? Someone has to pull the switch. Lethal injection? Someone has to give the shot. At least with a firing squad, there are so many people involved it will never be known for sure whose bullet was the last fatal one.

I do not have a problem with condemned criminals getting to choose their method, sorry. Even if it makes people of our day clutch their pearls. We are not very far removed from the days when all executions were public (hangings, beheadings) and people turned out to watch like it was a spectator sport. We don't get to decide that any one method of choice is, "too bloody, too violent." Execution is bloody and violent.