LAW OF THE LAND

[rockbilly]

Might not be a bad idea for all states............

LAW OF THE LAND
Death by firing squad possible in U.S. state
Persons convicted of capital murder would be executed by 5-officer team

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Posted: January 28, 2009
9:35 pm Eastern

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

One state lawmaker is proposing a bill to expand the death penalty and force people convicted of homicide to face execution by a five-officer firing squad.

New Hampshire State Rep. Delmar Burridge, D-Keene, is sponsoring H.B. 37, a bill providing for execution by firing squad for anyone who causes the death of another person by use of a firearm while engaged in the commission of a felony – an offense that would be considered capital murder under Burridge's plan.

According to the bill, the commissioner of the department of corrections will be required to select five peace officers to carry out the execution of defendants convicted of capital murder.

"The commissioner or designee shall ensure that the method of judgment of death specified in the warrant is carried out at a secure correctional facility operated by the department at an hour determined by the department on the date specified in the warrant," it states.

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Current law includes murder of judges, law enforcement personnel, murder for hire, some drug-related homicides and rape-murders as capital offenses, but Burridge is seeking to add homicide during an armed robbery, or other felonies committed with a weapon, to the list – excluding such criminals from the standard death by lethal injection.

"A firing squad is more humane, reliable and quick. And perfectly matches the crime with the punishment," Burridge said last week.

However, New England Cable News reports the bill has received little support so far.

"It provides for what we consider to be an unconstitutional cruel and unusual type of punishment," death penalty opponent Ryan Marvin said.

A New Hampshire man, Michael Addison, is currently on death row after he was convicted of slaying a Manchester police officer in 2006. His is scheduled to be the first execution carried out by the state since 1939.

Only two states – Idaho and Oklahoma – currently allow execution by a team of riflemen as an alternative to lethal injection. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, John Albert Taylor was the last U.S. citizen to face death by firing squad in Utah before the state eliminated the practice in 2004. He was put to death on Jan 27, 1996.

Burridge acknowledged his proposal is a long shot. Nonetheless, he believes it could act as a deterrent for potential offenders.

"I think that will thwart or frustrate or just get someone to pause, just for a minute. And that's sometimes all it takes," he said.

[BBF]

Has as much chance as a snowball in a volcano.

[Troyboy]

More time needs to be spent on things that really stand a chance of passing.

[Graybeard]

While I think capital punishment use should be expanded I don't think it really matters which method is used to take the lives of those convicted. Doing it one way as opposed to another isn't likely to have any affect on whether criminals do the deed or don't. In fact I don't really think capital punishment is a deterrent at all but merely a cheaper way to assure they don't do it again.

We as a society need to determine what crimes we think are worthy of capital punishment then we need to make very sure folks are in fact guilty without a shadow of a doubt. Once that's been done for those crimes we as a society deed worth of the death penalty it should be applied swiftly and surely by whatever method. We spend far too much money on criminals in a stupid attempt to rehabilitate them when all we're really doing is giving them an education on how to do a better job and have less chance of getting caught next time.

If a crime is worthy of saying they can never ever again be free then it's a crime worthy of the death penalty.

[lrs]

I also think that the death penalty does not deter crime.
However:
If it were applied swiftly, and by a firing squad, maybe that would change. 

[mirage1988]

In the old west they would build a gallows and hang em' high in full view.
If that wasn't a deterrant then you would grow up tall enough to swing from the gallows too. The jails were for the town drunk and the rowdy cowboys. If you stole a mans horse or shot someone in the back, you were hung, game over. Not enough trees to build the gallows for all the baby-killers in this country, now we are going to fund baby-killing globally.

[CannonKrazy]

As a nation we convict all kinds of criminals each year. Many of them spend decades on death row never to receive punishment for the crime. We spend billions of dollars each year feeding and housing these inmates because our society feels the death penalty is cruel and inhumane. I for one would stand in line for days just to get the privilege to shoot a few of these scum bags. The nation is in a crisis now and every extra dollar the USA can conserve will be a help. Shoot these people and get them out of the prison system and off the tax payers bank accounts. No reason to feed them if they are of no use to the country.

[Gun Runner]

Every State/Fedral prison should have its own gallows. Every Sunday after service"s are over in town they should have hangings. I would be willing to bet the crime rate would drop. Just like the town in GA. that required everybody to have a firearm, the crime rate dropped real fast and like Morton Grove IL. where they wanted a gun free town crime rate went way up. Like nobody has a clue.

Gun Runner

[williamlayton]

Instead of talking, just do it, #5 for the year, went his way last night.
Blessings

[BBF]

Sure, do it similar to the "godless" when they chop off the head of someone in a public area right after the people come out of a mosque. Perhaps a few hours on the Rack or disemboweling would make an impression.

BTW. how many "criminals" have been found not guilty after long years because new evidence was found.??

I agree with GB on that, no death penalty unless absolute proof.

[williamlayton]

We got one that, after 13 years or so, is going to get a new trial.
After conviction you can't get a hearing for a new trial based on new evidence, if you can believe that.
Seems this guy was in jail at the time of the killing but a new trial could not be ordered because of this new evidence.
Some defense attorney he had,
Some DA we had, also. Just wanted too clear the books of another murder, no matter who.
Blessings