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"Executioner: Death by firing squad is '100 percent justice'"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this interesting new piece at CNN based on an interview with a member of the last firing squad used in Utah in 1996 to execute a convicted murderer.  Here is a snippet: The former firing squad member asked not to be named, as he remains a law enforcement officer in the state. The man he helped execute, John Albert Taylor, was sentenced to death for killing an 11-year-old girl in 1989. Charla Nicole King had been sexually assaulted. A telephone cord was wrapped around her neck -- three times, her mother told authorities. She knew because she counted as she unwound it, trying to revive her daughter The officer agreed to recount his experience because he believes in the death penalty -- and thinks the firing squad method is plagued by misconceptions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 09, 2010 (boomark / email).