# If you could participate in a firing squad, would you?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 24, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-participate-in-a-firing-squad-would-you/265884 "2004-09-24T15:39:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-participate-in-a-firing-squad-would-you/265884/34 "2004-09-27T14:19:02Z")

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I’m in favor of killing a few innocent people so that no guilty man goes free or lives another day, if he/she were facing the death penalty.

It is the sacrfice that some innocent people will have to make. Kind of like war. Innocent people die to protect us. In the war on crime, same thing.

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