Justice on the Rebound

The Christian state of South Carolina is set to dispense Baby Jesus' justice in no uncertain fashion, by correcting an elderly felon with a firing squad. Given recent difficulties in administering lethal injections and the likely consignment of electric chairs to the realm of atheistic woke sorcery, the state now permits condemned prisoners to choose their means of execution; and the shooting method at least has the virtue that it makes no pretence at being nice, humane or tidy even in cases where the mental health of the condemned is open to question. Nevertheless, in choosing a method generally reserved for the ritual sacrifice of schoolchildren upon the altar of the Second Amendment, the miscreant has let his redeemers in for some small inconvenience. Since so virtuous and vitalising a procedure can hardly be completed out of doors, the correctional personnel will be firing rifles inside a closed chamber, leading to concerns about ricochets which might endanger the killers themselves or any respectable persons who might happen to be watching.