However, some requested the opportunity to face the men who were about to unload their barrels. To me, this seems to defeat the point of the blanks, since the guy with the super hot round would feel a bigger recoil, and thus know he had one of the real rounds. The purpose was to allow the unit to clean up its own mistakes as it were.Nowadays, the military has gone to lethal injection. I’ve never been on a firing squad, but I have a feeling I’d know where my round hit. In the Soviet Union, from the very earliest days, the bullet to the back of the head, in front of a ready-dug burial trench was by far the most common practice. Maybe that’s enough reason to use the blank?Another thought - the executioner himself may know if his gun had a blank, but his friends and family wouldn’t.77-19-10. But there are at least two types of executions by a firing squad. As others have said, if you are experienced in guns, you know when the round was a blank.You don’t hear about deception in the identity of the executioner in case of: hanging, beheading, electrocution.
Also think I’d notice if I fired a blank. For the UK memorial, see Knudsen, Harald Franklin. A new law in Utah allows firing squad as a backup method of execution if lethal injection drugs aren't available. You’re just stirring up shit. I’m sure the executioner won’t have that problemIt seems that since these men had been chosen or volunteered for the job, killing someone isn’t that big of an issue.No, it actually is a big issue for the vast majority. An example of this is In some cases, one or more members of the firing squad may be issued a weapon containing a According to Pte. That ensures none of the riflemen will know who delivered the fatal shot.”This may be a holdover from when members of the firing squad were pressed into service.
Judgment of death – Location and procedures for execution.I call UL on the blank round, at least as far as Utah is concerned, unless someone finds an execution manual.I’m kind of amazed that somewhere in the States still executes by firing squad. After the owner of the penis going through … After all, difficulty aside, they don’t have multiple levers for electric chairs so that the executioner doesn’t know if he’s the one pulling the real lever, or placebos in lethal injections. I think I will go with:Sounds like an urban legend. One of the rifles will be an “ineffective” round, similar to a blank, which delivers the same recoil as a live round. He also added that one of the real rounds was “very hot”. Also think I’d notice if I fired a blank. It might sound simple, but there are a few things about this deadly punishment that you might not knowOut of grim curiosity, we've watched several videos of firing-squad executions found in the war archives. NPR mentioned a .30-30 rifle.

Killing someone from your own side, standing there tied to a post, requires massive amounts of self-justification.Yeah, soldiers and lawmen generally resist the idea of shooting an unarmed man who is restrained and blindfolded.Even volunteering to pull the trigger doesn’t mean that you’ll be able to do it when the time comes.I think you’ve nailed it. Wikipedia has this to say about West Virginia’s “Old Sparky”:Its control apparatus was designed in such a way that three push-button switches were to be simultaneously pressed by three members of the execution team; only one of these switches actually completed the circuit, allowing each member of the execution team to reassure himself that perhaps he had not been the one who had actually initiated the death of the condemned.It’s called plausible deniability, it the whole theory behind the Japanese peer-to-pper filing sharing program “Perfect Dark.”I’m not sure how effective the blank would be for that purpose, anyway. One of the rifles will be an “ineffective” round, similar to a blank, which delivers the same recoil as a live round.