Nevada death row inmate asks to be killed by firing squad

[turbinetree]

Zane Floyd says method is preferable to untried lethal injection
Convicted murderer Floyd expected to face June execution

A death row inmate in Nevada is asking to be killed by a firing squad rather than lethal injection in an execution expected in June.

Zane Michael Floyd was convicted in 2000 of killing four people and injuring a fifth with a shotgun in a Las Vegas supermarket. Prosecutors will seek an execution warrant in state court next month, possibly for the week of 7 June.

Attorneys for Floyd are challenging the state plan to use a three-drug lethal injection, a controversial process which led to court challenges that twice delayed the execution of another inmate, who later killed himself in prison.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/20/nevada-death-row-inmate-firing-squad-lethal-injection

[WarGamer]

1. I'm generally against State sponsored murder...

But his point is correct.

Multiple .30 caliber rifle rounds through the heart is more compassionate than slow poisoning which is truly evil.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Every now and then, a story comes along that provides a legitimate moral quandary (nt)

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Abolish the death penalty.

[beaglelover]

4. I don't understand why they don't just give them

A lethal dose of heroine??

[Stinky The Clown]

6. I have wondered the same thing. Plus, now there is Fentenyl, which is even deadlier

[Talitha]

5. I'm against the death penalty, but since it exists,

the condemned should be able to, as a last request, choose the method.
JMHO, YMMV