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South Carolina Carries Out 'Horrifying and Violent' Firing Squad Execution of Brad Sigmon
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Getting shot by multiple people in the chest and stomach isn't going to be any more painless.
No one is arguing it's perfect or "painless", but in light of high-profile botched executions where the convict is unintentionally(?) tortured for hours before they died it seems to be the better option.
Multiple people targeting your brain and heart... It will be worse to watch and you might cause psychological damage to anyone watching or taking part... but at least you won't suffer for long.
EDIT:
As I mentioned in another comment, they aim for the heart, from 15 feet (4.5 meters) away. And there's usually at least 3 shooters, so even if multiple people are abysmally bad marksmen, no one's dying slowly from a gut shot...
They don't aim at the head. They aim at the heart. And not every rifle has a live round so no one knows who fired the killing shot. At least that's how it was traditionally done.
You're right, I've since read the article and they aimed for the heart. Death was pronounced within 3 minutes of the shots. But I don't think this particular execution used the "random bullet and 2 blanks" method, or at least that's not a detail mentioned in the article:
still id rather get shot, and die of shock and blood-loss in under a minute then be paralyzed and in agony for a half hour. Lethal injection may look more humane, but appearances are deceiving, with a firing squad what you see is what you get, multiple rifle rounds turning your organs into slush.
Edit: 3 hours of them trying to administer the lethal injection https://www.the-sun.com/news/6015918/joe-nathan-james-jr-longest-lethal-injection/
Death by potassium overdose causes runaway cell death. When a cell dies and ruptures it releases potassium which then ruptures and kills other cells.
Essentially, melting your flesh off your body from the inside.
I'll take getting shot, thanks.
It will at least be quicker!