Does anyone know if it's common or likely for the shots to not be immediately fatal and for the fucker to suffer for a bit before losing consciousness?
Also, if one of the guys were to "miss" and hit the fucker's balls, for example, there wouldn't be any kind of investigations to find out who'd done it, right?
Most firing squads for execution aren't like what popular culture has ingrained into our minds when we think of them, with several soldiers/officers lined up shoulder to shoulder, "ready, aim, fire" and shooting the condemned with their rifles from the shoulder. In a prison execution setting, the rifles are mounted to rests that hold the rifle solidly, aimed at the heart, and they cannot be aimed anywhere else. Each rifle in its rest is often in an enclosed room with a firing port so each shooter remains anonymous from the others.
In the Utah Department of Corrections they use Winchester Model 94 rifles chambered in .30-30 Winchester Center Fire. There are five rifles with one "conscience" blank so each shooter can tell themselves that their rifle had the blank to ease their conscience. The rest of the rifles have live ammunition. Four rounds of .30-30 WCF soft points, which are deer hunting rounds...they aren't surviving that. It is usually instantly fatal and actually more humanely lethal than other forms of execution, which is why more states are adopting it again as a form of execution.
Also in Utah, firing squads are typically only used for two reasons. The primary reason is when the chemicals and drugs to make the cocktail for lethal injections are not available. The second is if the condemned prisoner specifically requests it over the needle. People have been known to have lethal injections go wrong. They sometimes don't go to sleep before the lethal shit hits their veins and it is extremely painful. It isn’t 100% effective. The hydrostatic shock from a .30-30 WCF soft point, which mushrooms out once it hits flesh and makes a devastating wound channel in a deer or man sized target, will nearly always shut off the nervous system with a center mass shot to the vitals like flipping a fucking light switch. Now imagine four of them aimed right at the heart.
Source: my old man worked for the Utah Department of Corrections in the Adult Probation and Parole side of things for much of my life and retired in 2005. He knew a lot of guys who worked at the prison. Even though the firing squad hadn't been used for quite a long while until the beginning of the 21st Century, they never got rid of the capacity to do so. The rifles they have, they've had since the early 20th Century. Nearly 100 years.
I don't know for sure if this fruity little faggot tranny chaser who murdered Charlie will be getting the firing squad since the needle is still the primary form of capital punishment in Utah. He may request it, or they may decide to make a special exception in this case as a form of poetic justice. But IIRC Utah was the only state who never officially got rid of it as an option for capital punishment.
