https://www.npr.org/2022/03/18/1087677686/south-carolina-firing-squad-execution-death-row

Death row executions by firing squad can now be carried out in South Carolina

South Carolina is now prepared to perform executions by firing squad, the state's Department of Corrections announced Friday.

The state said it spent $53,600 in renovations to the Capital Punishment Facility at Broad River Correctional Institution to ready it to perform these executions as required by a law passed last year.

The state's Department of Corrections said, "protocols have been written, and the department is ready to carry out an order of execution by firing squad if the inmate chooses this method."

This remains an extremely rare method of execution. Only Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah offer firing squad as an option to death row inmates. Since 1976, three people were executed by firing squad.

In 2021, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill forcing death row inmates to choose the manner of their execution: either by firing squad or electric chair if the drugs to provide a lethal injection are unavailable.

Lethal injection is still the preferred, and primary, method of execution in states that have the death penalty. But in recent years, state officials have had difficulty obtaining lethal injection drugs.

This has pushed some states that still intend to execute death row inmates into offering alternatives to inmates — including lethal gas, electrocution, hanging, and firing squad.

In light of this, executions are at historic lows nationwide, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Previously scheduled executions were delayed by the South Carolina Supreme Court because firing squad was not an option for inmates to choose from. With the needed changes made, those executions are likely to restart pending any other legal challenges.

It took nearly a year for South Carolina to establish new rules and procedures to safely provide this method. Among the renovations was installing bullet-resistant glass and a firing squad chair with restraints for the inmate..

Well, firing-squad executionee Gary Gilmore's* reported last words seem especially apropos here: "Let's do it!" **

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
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* The late killer Gilmore expired in Utah on Monday, January 17, 1977, and happened to be the older brother of widely-published and respected rock music critic Mikal Gilmore.
** Assuming, of course, that none of the residents of South Carolina's death row are--like freed-in-less-than-a-week, truth-speaking-to-power sprung-jailbird Jusse*** Smolett--clearly innocent of all trumped-up charges and the hapless victim of some elaborate, state-sponsored anti-gay and anti-black frame-up.****
*** What the heck kind of a semi-literate given name is Jusse, anyway ?!?
**** Or so claims just about everyone***** in Smollet's orbit.
***** (Yet surely few as so stupid so as to actually honestly believe.)

Obviously, I misspelled both the given and surname of hateful hoax hustler Jussie Smollett.

But Jussie or Jusse, it's still a thoughtlessly burdensome--not to mention dumb--thing to christen a child with any name that he'll be having to correct and then spell for folks his entire life.

STYBLE/Florida

On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 22:11:24 -0700 (PDT), "radioacti...@gmail.com"
<radioactiveseattle@gmail.com> wrote:

>Obviously, I misspelled both the given and surname of hateful hoax hustler Jussie Smollett.
>
>But Jussie or Jusse, it's still a thoughtlessly burdensome--not to mention dumb--thing to christen a child with any name that he'll be having to correct and then spell for folks his entire life.
>
>STYBLE/Florida

My last name in not Wojciehowicz but I usually say it, then spell it
out, and then have to tell them again how it's pronounced. Meagher,
pronounced Mar. Sometimes a name just can't be helped although I do
have a not too distant relative who changed it to Marr.

You certainly have my sympathy for your never-ending inconvenience, but chin up: at least your folks did the right thing, as accordingly the only stipulation you ever have to make for your given name is whether you're lacking that H, John.

(While Jon-short-for-Jonathan is quite common, I'm sure there's also the occasional Johnn or Jonn or even Jhann out there, but again--their parents are just punishingly inconsiderate on this point, and often claim their unorthodox (and usually-lifelong) choice is somehow more beautiful, or at least "special". And in the latter case, they're right--it's especially imbecilic.)

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida

How serendipitous that, just as we're thrashing out the idea of unnecessarily-awkward given names, along comes this Sun story about some kid is burdened with such a unspeakable numbskull name that his grandparents evidently won't even specify it to the reporter!

STYBLE/Florida
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/i-refuse-use-grandsons-awful-26512235?int_source=nba

On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 14:48:38 -0700 (PDT), "radioacti...@gmail.com"
<radioactiveseattle@gmail.com> wrote:

>How serendipitous that, just as we're thrashing out the idea of unnecessarily-awkward given names, along comes this Sun story about some kid is burdened with such a unspeakable numbskull name that his grandparents evidently won't even specify it to the reporter!
>
>STYBLE/Florida
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>https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/i-refuse-use-grandsons-awful-26512235?int_source=nba

I'm guessing they're trolling for names with a made up story while
using stock photos with different people in either one.

On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 14:18:41 -0700 (PDT), "radioacti...@gmail.com"
<radioactiveseattle@gmail.com> wrote:

>You certainly have my sympathy for your never-ending inconvenience, but chin up: at least your folks did the right thing, as accordingly the only stipulation you ever have to make for your given name is whether you're lacking that H, John.
>
>(While Jon-short-for-Jonathan is quite common, I'm sure there's also the occasional Johnn or Jonn or even Jhann out there, but again--their parents are just punishingly inconsiderate on this point, and often claim their unorthodox (and usually-lifelong) choice is somehow more beautiful, or at least "special". And in the latter case, they're right--it's especially imbecilic.)
>
>BRYAN STYBLE/Florida

And it could've been Jawn, lol.