THE FIRING SQUAD................ For execution by this method, the inmate is typically bound to a chair with leather straps across his waist and head, in front of an oval-shaped canvas wall. The chair is surrounded by sandbags to absorb the inmates blood. A black hood is pulled over the inmates head. A doctor locates the inmates heart with a stethoscope and pins a circular white cloth target over it. Standing in an enclosure 20 feet away, five shooters are armed with .30 caliber rifles loaded with single rounds. One of the shooters is given blank rounds. Each of the shooters aims his rifle through a slot in the canvas and fires at the inmate. (Weisberg, 1991) The prisoner dies as a result of blood loss caused by rupture of the heart or a large blood vessel, or tearing of the lungs. The person shot loses consciousness when shock causes a fall in the supply of blood to the brain. If the shooters miss the heart, by accident or intention, the prisoner bleeds to death slowly. (Hillman, 1992 and Weisberg, 1991) 5 MEN READY TO KILL A MAN.... 1 HAS A BLANK SHOT,YET ALL ARE READY TO KILL A MAN??? MAYBE NOT A GOOD MAN BUT STILL A HUMAN MAN. THEN WHY THE BLANK SHOT?? TOOOO AVOID THE THOUGHT THAT YOU JUST KILLED THAT MAN!!!!!! THATS WHY!!!!!!
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