Utah's state House votes 39-34 to reinstitute execution by firing squad

[SteveRogers]

Far more humane than the lethal injection. Death comes pretty fast. It's also fairly painless if you do it right.

This is a really important caveat. Is everyone in this thread just taking it on intuition that a firing squad is more humane, or what? I'd need to see some data indicating that firing squads don't have a much higher error rate than lethal injection before I could jump on that bandwagon.

[SteveRogers]

This is obviously comparing very bad against very bad but

Far more humane than lethal injection.

[Citation Needed]

In what way is it far more humane than lethal injection? I get that a properly placed bullet through the brain is swift and relatively painless, but I'm pretty sure a botched firing squad death has the potential to be way worse than a botched lethal injection death. There are plenty of horror stories from back in the day of people surviving firing squads.

[SteveRogers]

A good explanation of how Utah's procedure will work, for those who are curious:

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http://www.sltrib.com/news/2326783-155/firing-squad-gets-final-ok-so

I oppose the death penalty, but I think that if we have it at all, executions should be humane, yet they might as well be gruesome.  For both those reasons, the guillotine and firing squad are both preferable to lethal injection.

I'll ask again, what makes everyone think the firing squad sound would be more humane than lethal injection?  People keep asserting that notion in this thread without any real explanation or data.