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Originally Posted by Muad'Dib
they executed him with an AA gun point blank
seriously, what the fuck?
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That sounds like a probable act of mercy directed at putting him out of pain and misery quickly. Literally blasting him away.
There are clips of US military rifle firing squad (""death by musketry") executions online, showing the end of the road for various German military convicted of war crimes/crimes against humanity by one or another special military tribunals during our occupation. They show a relatively slow and torturous death - it's seconds before the executee even reacts, then slowly sinking on the post he is tied to, bending his knees. Not instantaneous or anything close to it. It takes awhile to bleed to death, and quite a while of consciousness if nothing vital was hit. The face is masked - out of concern for the reaction of the firing squad itself and anyone else witnessing. Even with the mask, it's grotesque.
For the record, I hate capital punishment under any circumstances, no exceptions. But when compared to traditional, historical US protocols, hanging, the electric chair, firing squad, and most tragically, the gas chamber, the use of an anti-aircraft cannon probably beats all of them in speed and mercy.