He chose this method? Are people THAT scared of needles that they’d prefer getting shot?
It’s the shit chemicals being injected that don’t kill you for an hour that scares people.
Rank Of Preferences of what I would most prefer to do after reading this, starting with most preferred!
- be shot by a firing squad
- die by lethal injection
- visit south carolina
Barbaric idiots.
Death penalties don’t help to fight crime, as has been proven over and over again.
I’ve had several surgeries in my life that required a general anesthetic. There is no excuse or justification, other than sadism, for suffering here. Shouldn’t have the death penalty in the first place.
Except for the fact they let him choose his method of executions. I mean, being against the death penalty in general is one thing, but the sentence was passed out and the convict chose that method.
Choose between three painful methods.
Of those firing squad probably least to be honest. The lethal injection and electric chair are just too slow and unreliable.
They shoot in the heart instead of in the head so ymmv
The sudden loss of blood pressure would make it pretty quick I think
Would that also cut off the pain from the spine?
There is no ethical, or painless, way to kill someone who doesn’t want to die.
Giving them an overdose of opioids and then electrocuting them would be less painful.
I fould prefer this over drowning in lung fluid, or being slowly electrocuted also.
Heck, execution is preferable to how the average person lives their lives.
I remember seeing some war footage or something of a guy being executed from a meter away by a truck mounted .50 caliper gun. His head just disappeared. After my initial, holy shit! why did I just watch that, I thought, I can’t think of a better way to go. Minus the buildup.
personally I don’t believe in an afterlife. I do believe that once your organs cease to function your brains gets a cocktail boost that sets you into a fast dreamlike state. think of it like a naturally induced coma that you might never wake up from.
in this state is when you have your “afterlife”. I believe it’s an evolved trait that allows the brain to survive as long as possible after a traumatic death.
In my perspective, shooting a person in the head is just about the worst thing you can do because it robs them of those final moments where they could possibly live out an entire lifetime.
I would much rather die naturally, but will gladly take a slow painful death that will guarantee me my final moments instead of a “blip you’re dead forever” moment.
I agree with this. It may even be a mechanism to send you off to the next realm or something.
You’re entitled to your own personal beliefs, but you should know that your belief is inconsistent with the current scientific understanding of biology and consciousness.
What do you suppose is the case then?
The human brain is a biological machine comprised of a very large number of simple components that follow the laws of physics. Some combinations of those components interacting in a certain way results in what we consider to be consciousness, but it’s still just a chemical reaction based on purely physical processes. When a brain’s components stop interacting in that way, its consciousness ceases to exist.
Seems like a guillotine would be far more humane. No 80 seconds of breathing - man that must be like an eternity of pain.
A modern justice system would be even better.
Well, multiple scientists and doctors during the French Revolution reported that multiple victims maintained consciousness, briefly, after being beheaded, up to 30 seconds. One such incident happened in 1905, to a French criminal named Henri Languille. The French used the guillotine as the State method for executions up until 1981. The last beheading was in 1977.
https://mikedashhistory.com/2011/01/25/some-experiments-with-severed-heads/
In short, it’s not painless, and does not cause instant unconsciousness. If that was the goal, they’d render the “criminal” unconscious before execution.
But then, that’s not the point, is it?
So guillotine, but instead of a blade, just put a 2ft cube of steel to smash the entire head
Compressed air spike to the base of the head. You’d be dead before the sensation of pain could be registered.
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It’s like we are going backwards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_in_the_United_States
Currently, only New Hampshire has a law specifying hanging as an available secondary method of execution, now only applicable to one person, who was sentenced to capital punishment by the state prior to its repeal in 2019.
The hanging of Billy Bailey is likely to be the final hanging in the United States, considering that all three of the states that maintained hanging as a secondary method of execution alongside lethal injection after the 1976 restoration of the death penalty have now abolished executions. Delaware’s Supreme Court declared the death penalty to be in violation of their state constitution in 2016,[21] Washington abolished executions in 2018,[22] and New Hampshire abolished executions in 2019.[23] However, the last person on death row in the three states is Michael K. Addison in New Hampshire, convicted in 2008 of the 2006 murder of Michael Briggs, an on-duty police officer. Should the state carry out Addison’s execution, the method could be hanging if lethal injection was found unconstitutional or inefficient, or if he chooses to be executed by hanging.
Talk about a go-down-in-the-history-books opportunity.
Since the last execution in New Hampshire was a botched hanging in 1939 that took 6 minutes for the guy to die, I kind of doubt the court would allow them to go through with that.
Honestly much better than lethal injection. Lethal injection is slow and tortuous but looks less violent.
I’d rather be give a fuck ton of herion and ran over with a bulldozer. If that’s not available chop my head off
I’m convinced lethal injection was intentionally designed to be agony, and torture. There are too many accounts by eyewitnesses of it not being peaceful, and painless.
Afaik the process itself is fine, but it involves things like starting an IV and dosing, and people who are skilled in those kinds of things tend not to be the kind of people who are okay with assisting in an execution. So, the ones who end up doing it are basically cops with a syringe, and -big shock- fuck it up cuz they’re either too stupid to do it correctly or too evil to want to.
You’re more of an optimist than me.
It sounds pretty freakin cruel to me but I’ll just post this quote and link:
source: Discover
“The physician concluded based on his observations that a severed head could retain consciousness for 25 to 30 seconds.”
I’d assume with the spine severed like that you wouldn’t feel much pain.
Plus with lethal injection it’s common for it to take hours. Just sitting their slowly drowning as your lungs fill with fluid. I’ll take the 25 to 30 seconds
I’ll just take that heroin od
Yeah, I’ve overdosed before, it’s a swift, painless slide into the dark.
Username checks out.
Yeah. But I’m clean now and still alive to regret that particular incident, could be worse
Edit - I wanted to bring it back in a witty way to your username checking out too but fuck me it’s beyond my ability
Sorry for being late, but fucking go you! I look forward to limiting my vices at least as much as you.
Edit: and you totally could’ve done something with hemorrhoids for other homie’s un
Dammit! You’re right, there was definitely a hemorrhoids joke there . . . isn’t it always the way that you never get the idea until way too late!
Yeah don’t give me too much applause - I will still have an occasional pipe of crack, maybe once every couple of months. Because I fuckin like it and that’s that. I’m getting too old for that shit though -my smart watch gives me an unusual heartbeat warning when I do stimulants. I also still drink too much, I still smoke cigarettes and the occasional joint, I still have a shitty diet. These are things I need to change. But yeah, I don’t do smack anymore. It was part of my life for many wasted years. It took me way too long to finally quit. But I did it. . . and so can you. Probably better than me. The rest of my stuff is a work in progress - though I am finding I feel better the next day if I go to sleep sober.
I don’t wanna give you advice because we all different people with different shit. What worked for me might not be right for you. And I’m no fuckin guru! I’d just say pick a date and stick to it. Don’t beat yourself up about relapses, just get back on that wagon and keep going. And get whatever medical and social support you can. All the best mate
Username fucks out(hole).
Three bullets shot by a three man squad. State can’t even afford more men and a conscience round.
Republicans love to kill.
Pro-life. 🙄
Pro-Life until you are born. Once you are born, you’re fucked.
-Rough George Carlin quote
“If you’re pre-born, you’re protected. If you’re Pre-K, you’re fucked!”
How long until these executions are televised live on Fox?
But they told me they’re pro-life. What a monumental disparity, how do we proceed?
The can on “cruel and unusual punishment” had always been a farce.
It is said that it has to be both {cruel && unusual} simultaneously to be unconstitutional. The more they carry out these “new methods” like nitrogen gassing the more ‘usual’ it becomes.
well no, nitrogen gassings aren’t “cruel”, they’re novel.
What they mean when they say cruel and unusual is some shit like strapping a guy into a 2007 camry, sending it down a mountain into a fucking lake, until he drowns.
That’s oddly specific. Did I miss something?
no, it’s just an example of something that would be considered both cruel, and unusual punishment, to provide a sufficient example.
You can’t just look at something like nitrogen gassing and go “its cruel because it’s killing someone, and also unusual because it isn’t utilized often” It has to be literally cruel, as in, you shouldn’t do it period (general US laws would forbid it kind of a thing) and unusual in the sense that you would literally never do it.
