NEW AMMO

Execution by shooting

   “Look girl, you got just two choices here, you can stop fighting and let me shoot you proper and neat or you can keep pissing me off and end up gut shot and screaming. Now stop fucking around. You’re the one that went and got herself sentenced to death, nobody else to blame but you.” 
    The anger in his voice and the slap across her face finally quieted her down enough so he could finish securing her in place. She was naked of course. Naked and tied to a horizontal pole that was placed at shoulder height.  Her arms were spread out along it and were tied tightly to it. Rings in the floor held her feet still as she stood sobbing. Head down and her long red hair falling over her face and smallish breasts she was kind of pretty. “not such a bad little piece. Kind of sexy, too bad I’ve got to shoot her instead of just fuckin her to death. Bet she’d be a good piece of ass.” 
     With one last look he walked away. “ Should have read her history. Hell I don’t even know how old she is. Looks to be anywhere from fifteen to twenty or so. Wonder if she’s virgin?”
His mind’s eye envisioned what she would look like as the new style slug hit her. Thank God he was able to use a mount instead of having to hold the gun. This way he wouldn’t lose sight of her just as the bullet struck home. Otherwise the recoil would deprive him of his favorite part of the job. He loved the split second when the living breathing girl was transformed into a shattered ruin by his bullet. Soon very soon.
    The breech of the gun was open, waiting to be fed. The finger sized round slid in and he closed the bolt with a small snick. The laser sight came to life. Her down cast eyes noticed the bright red spot between her breasts and once again she started to scream and beg for her life. As he waited for her to quiet down he thought about the new ammo he was using. Instead of being a hollow point or something like that this stuff was supposed to be a lot better. It looked like a hollow point but instead of being a solid piece that opened up it was made of four separate parts. Four parts with each piece connected to the other three by some kind of super strong wire or strands. On impact the parts would each move away from the others until the strands here tight. Then the pieces would continue through the body. But the wires were strong enough to slice through the soft organs like a cheese cutter. If it worked as well as promised it would just destroy everything in its path. 
    She was tiring and slowly realizing that she was going to die. They always did sooner or later. He waited, the safety off and the trigger release in his hand. He had time to wait for the second when she would stop and look up at him. It might take a few minutes but she would. She would look him in the eye and just stand there waiting. Waiting for the shot that would kill her. 
    “Come on honey. Get over it. It’s time and you know it. There, now look at me, come on. Yes, such pretty green eyes. Are you ready? Time’s up.” 
     KABOOM-  The new ammo exploded in the gun, launching the four part slug on its way. 
It was always odd how time seemed to change at this moment. It was as if he could watch in slow motion. For just a split second he thought he could see everything as it happened. The burst of red as the hole appeared between the breasts. His mind saw the slug split, the wires spring tight, the flesh part as the wire slashed through like a sharp knife. Her heart and lungs sliced and diced and blasted. The great blood vessels parted. The splinters of bone adding their own destruction to the mess her chest was becoming. Then the wires dug into the spine. Not strong enough to cut the bone on the spine they were more than enough to sever the cord before they broke and allowed the pieces to exit her back in a spray of blood and tissue. 
   The slender body was pushed back until the bindings on her ankles stopped her from going any further. It then recoiled toward him and time resumed it normal pace. Deprived of blood and oxygen her brain tried to live but it was doomed. Somehow she managed to lift her head just a bit. He hoped for one last look at those eyes and was rewarded. For an instant they were joined. An instant he would always remember as one of the best things ever. An instant that held her last vision and her last thought. 
   Then it was over. She was just hanging from her bindings. No longer scared to die. Just hanging, waiting for the last indignity. He knew it was a wasted effort even as he did it but it was part of the job. The sharp knife effortlessly opened her throat as he made sure she was dead. It then cut her bindings and the thing that once had been a living girl fell to the blood stained floor to be cleaned up with the rest of the mess. “Damn, that’s some good shit. Made a hellva mess.” 
   -- Post Mortem Results On The First Use Of Tethered Slugs For Execution--
   I am pleased to report that the tethered projectile has more that lived up to expectations.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           The first look report from the executioner was very favorable, he reported almost instant death with no blood flow following the severing of the neck arteries. He also noted indications of extreme  energy transfer with the impact. 
The post mortem examination showed the following; 
1- a single large entrance wound with evidence showing the separation of the four pieces upon impact.
2- full separation within two inches of penetration
3- four wide wound channels from the separated sections.
4- the six tethers inflected massive damage to what ever they encountered, for example the heart was cut into five pieces and the sections of the lungs within the area covered were excised neatly. There was also severe damage to the aortic arch and other blood vessels.
5- the tethers failed only upon impact with bone but even then managed to sever the spinal cord before failing. 
6- there were four large exit wounds in the back 
7- secondary damage was noted from bone fragments typical of powerful slugs striking bone, in this case the breastbone.
8- a large amount of pooled blood in the chest cavity 
9- some indication of whip damage from the tethers as they failed.
It is concluded that the first report was correct in all aspects;
1- death was almost instantaneous 
2- there was a large energy dump upon impact with the normal effects associated with such a dump
3- the total damages from the tethered slug is noticeably greater that that of several normal rounds. 
4- while the cost per round is several times greater with the tethered slug it is felt the savings in labor and the reduction in weapons will more that cover the difference.
Recommendations;
1- the 12 gauge tethered slug be adopted as the standard load for executions by gunfire
2- in view of the effectiveness of this ammo the throat cutting to insure death should be used only in cases where the executioner has doubts about bullet placement or other factors that may have led to less that optimal results.
3- further improvements in the tethers should be pursued, perhaps increasing the length or making them strong enough to overcome bones.
4- number 3 not withstanding the development team is to be commended on a very nice piece of work. They have added a new capability to our arsenal.