The thing is, most firing squads are set up with several extra people, and half of them are given blanks without knowing (at least, that is how it was done when it was still being done in the US). That way, no one knows who actually shot the person, and even then no one knows which person that shot them killed the person.
It's still hard to find people willing to do it, but it at least helps with the PTSD of knowing your action killed someone.
Yes I know it's designed in a "smart" way, but just knowing I might be the killer makes me a bit uneasy. But I'm also form a country that doesn't love guns nor uses death penalty
How hard could it be to find a cop to do it? Just go grab those cops that like to draw weapons for the silliest of things on people doing basically nothing.
I think it’s less about who fired the fatal bullet and more about who fired any bullets at all. IIRC blanks are loaded into one of the guns, however given that most LE officers are familiar with firearms, they can probably tell the difference immediately due to lack of recoil & failure to cycle (if using semi autos)
In the execution of Ronnie Gardner in Utah, 2010 the blank rifle was loaded with a wax bullet that would imitate recoil yet would immediately disintegrate upon exiting the muzzle (upon further research, a wax blank was also used in the 1996 execution of John Taylor, also in Utah)
All you need is 5 officers from the entire state to volunteer. Pretty easy to accomplish in practice, but logistically it’s definitely more challenging than arranging a lethal injection which is why people tend to choose it: purely out of spite.
The issue is also that it's pretty gnarly to watch, and people might think hey this isn't so great. I mean, I'm sure watching someone not die to a lethal injection is also gnarly, but it's not supposed to happen that way.
I don't feel like death penalty is reasonable, but the fact it's still a watchable event is wild to me.
The noble people executed during the french revolution I can understand being public, becasue it was a major change for multiple people. It's not like theres a watch box at regular prisons
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u/Independent-Bat9545 14h ago
So are they gonna inject her again when the hospital deems her fit to take said medication? What are the next steps?