LIBERTARIAN RIGHT VIEW

by Michael W. Dean, Libertarian Punk

I have a HUGE problem with Utah’s executions! They are unsafe for the executioners!

Last night The State of Utah killed scumbag Ronnie Lee Gardner (he murdered a bartender for not serving beer quick enough).

Utah executed Gardner by having four guys with .30-30 rifles shoot the scumbag in the heart. (Five guys shot, but one had a blank…as is common with execution by firing squad….some sort of pussy-ass “Plausible deniability” for the shooters. He’ll I’d ONLY be a shooter in a firing squad if I could know for SURE I had a live round.)

The execution took place in a 20 x 25 foot room, with the five shooters firing through six-inch high slots in the wall (below.)

My problem with this is that at 25 feet in a concrete room, there is ABSOLUTELY the chance for a .30 caliber bullet to go through the scumbag, hit the back wall, ricochet off another wall and come back and kill one of the executioners through the slot. BAD GUN SAFETY PRACTICES, UTAH!