April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it announced on Friday, noting difficulties in obtaining drugs for lethal injections.
The recommendation came in a Justice Department report fulfilling Trump’s promise to resume capital punishment at the federal level in his second term, although it will likely be several years before another federal execution can be scheduled.
Shortly before his first term ended in 2021, Trump, a Republican, resumed executions at the federal level after a 20-year gap, putting 13 federal prisoners to death with lethal injections in his final few months in office. There had been just three federal executions in the preceding 50 years.
So step one, bring concentration camps back Step two, bring back gas chambers?
Really now?
Godamned Nazis. ALL OF THEM
I bet this is to murder all the people they’ve thrown into camps.
Notice how all these methods can be done to people en masse in some way?
Gas chambers, electrified floors, firing squads…
Electrifying a floor to the extent it’d kill a roomfull of people would be massively challenging. Perhaps a pool of water… but I don’t really want to be giving anyone any ideas.
But anyway, good point.
I bet they’ll try to pull some shit like this at some point (that is, if they even bother pretending there’s a process):
Gas chambers 🥰.
What a country…
It’s nitrogen gas without oxygen. Often used for assisted suicide.
You seem to miss the point. The US has become Nazi land, with real nazis running the government and now they are bringing back gas chambers
And now it will also be used for state-sponsored holocaust against innocents presumed guilty of unspecified and unverified crimes. It’s multi-purpose!
I think you need to watch s01e02 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
And?
EU: “Deeply concerned.”
it’s interesting how “just not have the death penalty”, you know, like every other major country, isn’t on the table.
I bet they will regret it when it’s used against them in a while.
Wish I could be this optimistic
More preparation for the trans genocide
Practice lethal self defense! I hope to death that it will never come to that, but if they ever come for our heads, they better be prepared to lose their own! Better to have the skills and not need it, than to need it and not have it
And practice lethal community self-defense (i.e. well-organized militias). Lanchester’s Square Law makes individual self defense almost irrelevant compared to community organizing.
Suppose for simplicity that skill, equipment, preparation, etc. all balance out and everybody is equally capable of killing others.
Then, if there are 5 assailants and 1 of you there is a 1/6 chance you shoot one of them, and 100% chance you die.
But if there are 5 of you and 5 of them, the situation is symmetrical. One side will have 4 casualties, the other 5, and it’s a coin toss which.
And if there are 25 of you and 5 of them, the situation is reversed, and you’ll walk away with one or two casualties.
By increasing your numbers 5-fold, you increase your effectiveness 25-fold.
The law doesn’t apply when you’re outranged, like if they decide to do artillery bombardment like in the Battle of Bunker Hill, but guerilla tactics and infrastructure can mitigate that.
The article has a little part for the reason the drugs are hard to come by:
Pharmaceutical companies refuse to sell prison systems their drugs that can be used in executions, partly to comply with a European Union ban. U.S. prisons have had to seek out smaller, less-regulated compounding pharmacies willing to brew copies of those drugs.
Some background from another article:
Europe won’t allow the drugs to be exported because of its fierce hostility to capital punishment.
The phenomenon started nine years ago when the EU banned the export of products used for execution, citing its goal to be the “leading institutional actor and largest donor to the fight against the death penalty.” But beefed up European rules mean the results are being most strongly felt in the United States now, with shortages becoming chronic and controversial executions making headlines.
With the sadism of that country, I’d expect scaphism to be on that list.
