How does the firing squad compare to lethal injection in terms of pain?

[Starmix]

How does the firing squad compare to lethal injection in terms of pain? Comparing the pain experienced during execution by firing squad versus lethal injection involves considering the potential pain, the speed of death, and the possibility of complications.

For the firing squad, anesthesiologists suggest a painless death is not guaranteed. If bullets miss the heart, an inmate could remain conscious for up to 10 seconds, experiencing severe pain from nerve-shattering and spinal cord damage. Death by firing squad can be quicker than lethal injection.

Historically, firing squads have a lower rate of botched executions compared to lethal injections. However, a recent autopsy revealed that the firing squad execution went wrong when the shooters largely missed the prisoner’s heart, which likely caused the prisoner pain and suffering while he was still conscious.

For lethal injection, there is mounting evidence that prisoners may experience excruciating pain during lethal injections. Medical experts have found that lethal injection can cause pulmonary edema—the feeling of choking, drowning, own fluids, suffocating, being buried alive, burning sensation while being unable to speak or scream. Even when carried out correctly, lethal injection takes about nine minutes to kill someone. Botched lethal injection executions are more common than with other methods. Botched executions often result in prolonged pain.

The debate over which method is less painful continues, with arguments for and against both firing squads and lethal injections. Some states have introduced firing squads as an alternative method due to the difficulty of inquiring drugs needed for lethal injections.

 

[gwolf666]

From my perspective, both forms of execution present serious problems regarding the potential for causing unnecessary suffering. Execution by firing squad, while potentially swift, does not guarantee a painless death, especially if the shots fail to strike the heart accurately. This can leave the person conscious for several seconds, experiencing excruciating pain. On the other hand, lethal injection, supposedly designed to be more humane, has also proven problematic, with evidence that it can cause indescribable suffering, such as a choking and burning sensation, even in successful executions. The reality is that neither option is entirely safe or painless, and both methods have flaws that can lead to prolonged suffering. Personally, I believe this debate demonstrates that the death penalty itself is a practice that should be re-evaluated, given the risk of causing unnecessary suffering.

 

[Starmix]

For me, the lethal injection execution of an inmate is a little bit painless compared to the firing squad, which the inmate can feel and may cause severe or excruciating pain throughout the body, especially the brain.

 

[Augusta]

The firing squad is quicker and causes less suffering than other forms of execution. “There's pain, certainly, but it's transient,

 

[Starmix]

Firing a squad for the criminal is somehow brutal for me. The inmate will feel the intensity of the harm, and he can also feel the intense bullets that would strike his heart and brain. It is better for lethal injection where the inmate will just sleep forever, no pain to bear for so long.

 

[Augusta]

Yeah firing squad is more harmful to the criminals as you are also in panic mode knowing that you are going to be brutally executed the next minute

 

[Starmix]

Firing squad for a convicted criminal is done in a very states in the USA. It will be crucial for the family once they see how a family member is executed by firing squad.