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death by firing squad today

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The Night Rider said:
The United States Army hasn't executed a soldier since April 13, 1961.

John A. Bennett was hanged for the rape and attempted murder of an 11 year old Austrian girl.

In the entire 20th century only 135 Service Members total were executed. Mostly for purely criminal offenses during WWII.

The only Soldier who was executed for a strictly military offense since the Civil War was Slovik. He was executed for desertion on Jan 31 1945

The author of The Execution of Private Slovik, William Bradford Huie interviewed one member of the firing party for the book and let that one account be representative of all of them to protect the firing party's privacy.

When Eddie Slovik was executed his firing squad was drawn by lot from the unit he deserted. It wasn't voluntary and one of the firing partu claimed he was told that if he refused the assignment He would be shot.

The interviewee also stated that the M1 he used was dirty and kicked hard. he said that there wasn't any question in his mind that he had live ammunition. He also said the guy that drew the blank knew he had a blank because the blank didn't cycle the bolt in his M1.

There were 12 men on Slovik's firing party. He was at 11 times all in the upper chest and shoulders and died within two minutes.

We don't execute people anymore.
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Fair point. The M1 action is a bit heavy to be cycled by a blank with no mass to induce bolt thrust.
 
This should have been a two-step process. First, while hooded he should have been bludgeoned with a similar baseball bat until he was unconscious, then followed up with the firing squad.
 
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mikep said:
this may be ghoulish but i am curious about what they'll use. .308? 5.56? pistol caliber? what type of rifle? AR or bolt gun? optic?
i'm not sure how i feel about the death penalty anymore. i am totally on board with swift justice. however, mistakes are made, people are wrongly accused and we have a less than perfect justice system. the idea of government sanctioned "anything" is not comforting. death is permanent and if a mistake is made somewhere along the line there is no mulligan. i don't know, maybe i'm getting soft as i get older.
however, this guy, who freely admits to what he did, he will certainly get what he deserves.
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Did a quick search . Since Utah is only State that has execute -ee option of firing squad , that's the place to look .

From 1977 to 1996 , the Winchester 94's were loaned by a Police Captain, never publicly identified .

But after the ownership of the rifles was tied up in a divorce settlement , the Utah DOC purchased their own set of Win M94 .30-30 in 2003 .

In 1977 , W-W 150hr Silvertip was used , but I'd have to search deep to see if that's still current .
 
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