“Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.”

Pretty compassionate way to kill a person.

Once again, the Law in the south is brutal.

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    8 months ago

    I don’t know all the details, but more than a few people have survived head shots with small caliber rounds. Captive bolt would certainly be as effective and pretty painless, which really should be the goal if you’re considering capital punishment.

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      Definitely small calibers have terminal performance issues. They lose energy fast at long range, barrel length and weight are critical, quality control is just plain not as good on cheap rimfire ammo. We had a guy in to butcher a batch of lambs for us awhile ago and his .22 misfired over 5 times…

      That’s why .22 is banned for hunting in most places because while it can easily be deadly, it’s not reliably so.

      When we do it ourselves I use .22 Magnum even on small animals like lambs because it’s MUCH more deadly, it’s never failed me.