Always Put One in the Brain

After several years of cruel and unusual punishment by botched lethal injection, it looks as if the Christian state of South Carolina has taken up cruel and unusual punishment by botched firing squad. Rejecting the quick and easy Genickschuss as practised by the comparatively humane and efficient Nazi and Stalinist régimes, the Christian state of South Carolina insists upon its executioners aiming at the heart. In at least one case, penitential projectile dispensation operatives appear to have confused the heart with the pancreas, the liver and the lung area, with prolonged and presumably indecorous results. Whether the Christian state of South Carolina will be trawling its more homicidal school student bodies for recruits to the custodial cardiac arrest trade remains as yet unclear.