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Lock 'n' load? Don't move to Utah.

Mar 23, 2015 10:33AM PDT

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standing up and....
Mar 23, 2015 1:52PM PDT

...taking it like a man might be more redeeming than being put to sleep permanently.

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I've read that, in Merry Ol' England
Mar 23, 2015 6:29PM PDT

(and I realize that's not your homestead), the condemned were once put in a cart and taken up the hill to the gallows...all the while the gathered public was there to cheer or jeer. I believe Tyburn Hill and Tower Hill were two noted execution sites using this practice. You can look up "Jack Hall" which is a song about such an execution and sung in first person. Capital punishment wasn't dealt out just for murder but for criminal relapse. You get one warning...maybe a public flogging...and, if you don't straighten up, your neck gets pulled straight.

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Discontinued
Mar 23, 2015 8:09PM PDT

Those practices were discontinued awhile ago.

I've read that cattle rustlers in the US were routinely 'strung up' and hanged in the "Good Old" Wild West without due process.

They got no warnings but were carried out as warnings to others.

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"Civilized" man has searched long and hard
Mar 23, 2015 8:34PM PDT

for a humane way to execute people. As I've read, the guillotine was once such a method and was originally reserved for royalty with the thinking that folks of that class should not suffer in death. It would be unthinkable to bring that back. Hanging evolved into a skilled process as well...again with the idea of making it as painless as possible. I imagine that firing squads were thought to be quicker and with fewer complications than hanging.

My post above was meant to show that executions have also evolved to be private rather than public events. I doubt any new method will stand the test of time as being humane. It's my personal opinion that executions should only happen to people who are a physical threat to others. Once in prison, they should be no longer a threat. About the only time I could think killing a person was justified is at the time they were threatening. An example would be the police having such a person within their sights and finding it too risky to attempt capture. Those situations do happen.

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If only
Mar 24, 2015 1:07AM PDT

we had a place to just dump them, where they could never leave the island, and let them deal with each other as they chose. In another 100 years or half millenium or so, maybe we will have a fast way to travel among the stars and have a prison planet we can fly through the upper atmosphere and drop them out in a pressure suit with a parachute, let them make their own way in a world of those just like them. Remember the Mafia run world in a Star Trek episode?

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Keep it up..you're going to run out of "islands"
Mar 24, 2015 6:49AM PDT

It might be a lot easier/quicker/better for you to move to your own "island", that's more efficient.

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Agneta did that
Mar 24, 2015 8:03AM PDT

Of course Sweden is just a bit too cold half the year for me. Someone could make an island near Bahamas. Just keep barging old concrete, rocks, bricks, and such, dumping them in one of the many sandy areas and let the waves take over and fill in the gaps with sand. Ever notice how sand piles up behind a jetty?

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Reminds me of an old joke:
Mar 25, 2015 2:32AM PDT

Interlocutor says, 'They oughta line 'em up and shoot 'em!'
Mr Bones says, 'Lock up and shoot who?'
Int., 'Oh, all those [follows a list of racial, religious and political slurnames].'
Bones, 'No, I meant who is going to line 'em up...'

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Shortage in Lethal
Apr 15, 2015 9:27AM PDT

So, it is barbaric for Utah to carry out this sort of executions. I'm sorry but can someone explain to me what crime leads to this execution? Don't all states have some sort of execution? OR did we get rid of executions altogether?

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(NT) 32 states allow it and 18 don't
Apr 15, 2015 9:39AM PDT
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Come to think of it...
Apr 15, 2015 9:51AM PDT

after the botched chemical executions I'd take a bullet any day.
Dafydd.

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You'd think there is now or will be technology
Apr 15, 2015 7:59PM PDT

that could vaporize a person within less than a second. No pain and no wasted space in the ground.

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(NT) What about the drug that woman took in Oregon?
Apr 17, 2015 11:24AM PDT