Oh, you cannot change your answer in the poll, for obvious reasons.US man chooses firing squad death
A convicted murderer in the US state of Utah has chosen to be executed by firing squad.
When given a choice between lethal injection or being shot, Ronnie Lee Gardner told the judge: "I would like the firing squad, please."
Of the 35 US states that have the death penalty, Utah is the only one to give firing squads as an option.
Critics say the method is a relic from the state's Wild West past and should be abolished.
The judge in Salt Lake City set Gardner's execution date for 18 June, but Gardner's lawyer said he would appeal.
Correspondents say he may still petition the state parole board to commute his sentence to life imprisonment.
The 49-year-old convict killed a lawyer in a shootout while trying to escape from a courthouse in 1985.
He would be only the third man to be killed by firing squad since the Supreme Court allowed states to have the death penalty in 1976.
The first man to be executed after capital punishment was re-instated was Utah murderer Gary Gilmore. He famously said "Let's do it" before facing the bullets in 1977.
The second - John Albert Taylor - attracted huge media attention for his execution in 1996.
Should Gardner's scheduled death go ahead, it is likely to garner a similar media storm, the BBC's Madeleine Morris in Washington says.
Death row convicts in Utah were for decades allowed to choose their method of execution.
State legislators removed that choice in 2004 and made lethal injection the standard method - but inmates sentenced before then still have a choice.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/a ... 641280.stm
Published: 2010/04/23 21:45:29 GMT
Lifestyle (end) choice
Lifestyle (end) choice
Which would you choose?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Voted firing squad. I picture the end of Breaker Morant - not a bad way to go. "Shoot straight, ya bastards!"
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Ummm yes you can.Gob wrote: Oh, you cannot change your answer in the poll, for obvious reasons.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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Not if you're dead 
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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But I am not. So your assertion is in error.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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You will be if you carry on spoiling my jokes 
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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(you know you can edit your poll in order to make it so you can't change your answer)
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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I don't think the opoll is of import enough to warrant any changes, people can vote as people see fit.
It's ony for fun..
It's ony for fun..
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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You're a logical enigma Gob
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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You say the sweetest things 
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Well, I voted for anything over lethal injection- that's gotta suck being strapped down like a rat in a lab!
