[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Most humane execution method in US (Page 1 of 10)
Posted: 12/24/2013 6:18:18 PM EDT
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What is considered the most humane method of execution in the US today? Probably many people think it's lethal injection, but apparently that has a lot of mishaps just like the others do. I am thinking firing squad has the least room for error.
Why don't they try something new like put a few wraps of PrimaCord around the condemned's neck, this would surely be instant, no? I know that there is at least one middle eastern country that ties the victim to the muzzle of an artillery piece, this one is pretty quick as well. 
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| Personally I always wondered about the guillotine? You'd think that would be pretty effective as far as not feeling anything afterward..messy though. Actually, I read somewhere that if the neck is broken correctly that hanging is pretty instantaneous. With calculators and proper weights figured in I guess that would be my vote. I've always preferred execution methods that are re-usable...saving tax payer dollars and all. |
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It is all about the amps, not the volts. Quoted:
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Electric chair. You don't feel a thing after 2,000 volts. Oh and I think it's 8 amps. It's about both really. Try electrocuting somebody with a car battery. |
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Nitrogen asphyxiation. Since the air is 79% nitrogen already, you can't taste or smell it. You just start getting tired and a little light headed as they up the percentage further towards 100%. You fall asleep / pass out, and then die from lack of oxygen to the brain. |
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Electric chair. You don't feel a thing after 2,000 volts. Oh and I think it's 8 amps. They're directly related... Your body offers electrical resistance. The chair is a voltage source. By ohms law, voltage divided by resistance equals current. Current is directly proportional to the applied voltage. To get high current, you need high voltage. |
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They're directly related... Your body offers electrical resistance. The chair is a voltage source. By ohms law, voltage divided by resistance equals current. Current is directly proportional to the applied voltage. To get high current, you need high voltage. Quoted:
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Electric chair. You don't feel a thing after 2,000 volts. Oh and I think it's 8 amps. They're directly related... Your body offers electrical resistance. The chair is a voltage source. By ohms law, voltage divided by resistance equals current. Current is directly proportional to the applied voltage. To get high current, you need high voltage. What if a dimmer switch is used? |
| There is no way to determine guilt to a satisfactory standard. Humans are fallible beings. I'd rather have 10,000 guilty go free than for an innocent to be punished. Therefore, I consider execution to be unconscionable. In addition to it being primitive, vengeful and barbaric, of course. |
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Electric chair. You don't feel a thing after 2,000 volts. Oh and I think it's 8 amps. They're directly related... Your body offers electrical resistance. The chair is a voltage source. By ohms law, voltage divided by resistance equals current. Current is directly proportional to the applied voltage. To get high current, you need high voltage. What if a dimmer switch is used? Now that's evil 
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There is no way to determine guilt to a satisfactory standard. Humans are fallible beings. I'd rather have 10,000 guilty go free than for an innocent to be punished. Therefore, I consider execution to be unconscionable. In addition to it being primitive, vengeful and barbaric, of course. 
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There is no way to determine guilt to a satisfactory standard. Humans are fallible beings. I'd rather have 10,000 guilty go free than for an innocent to be punished. Therefore, I consider execution to be unconscionable. In addition to it being primitive, vengeful and barbaric, of course. No way? No way at all? Caught in the act? Not enlightened enough for you? |
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There is no way to determine guilt to a satisfactory standard. Humans are fallible beings. I'd rather have 10,000 guilty go free than for an innocent to be punished. Therefore, I consider execution to be unconscionable. In addition to it being primitive, vengeful and barbaric, of course. I agree. Of course, both of us will be chastised by the same posters that will go forth and bitch about how the government fucks up everything it touches in 87 other threads. |
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Oppose, dislike, no opinion, whales are fine. Quoted:
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Execution is inhuman. Oh 13er you have to like executions, killing animals, hating Hippies and Whales etc  Oppose, dislike, no opinion, whales are fine. Are you or are you not a gun owner? Are you or are you not a conservative or at least right of center? Do you or do you not understand that some people and animals just need killing? |
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There is no way to determine guilt to a satisfactory standard. Humans are fallible beings. I'd rather have 10,000 guilty go free than for an innocent to be punished. Therefore, I consider execution to be unconscionable. In addition to it being primitive, vengeful and barbaric, of course. I just looked at where you are from and I understand. |
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There is no way to determine guilt to a satisfactory standard. Humans are fallible beings. I'd rather have 10,000 guilty go free than for an innocent to be punished. Therefore, I consider execution to be unconscionable. In addition to it being primitive, vengeful and barbaric, of course. You'll fit in great here! |
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From its first use, there has been debate as to whether the guillotine always provided a swift death as Guillotin had hoped. With previous methods of execution intended to be painful, there was little concern about the suffering inflicted. As the guillotine was invented specifically to be humane the issue was seriously considered. The blade cuts quickly enough so that there is relatively little impact on the brain case, and perhaps less likelihood of immediate unconsciousness than with a more violent decapitation, or long-drop hanging. Some doctors say that it takes 15 minutes before a chopped head loses its eye and hearing senses.[25] Audiences to guillotinings told numerous stories of blinking eyelids, speaking, moving eyes, movement of the mouth, even an expression of "unequivocal indignation" on the face of the decapitated Charlotte Corday when her cheek was slapped. The following report was written by a Dr. Beaurieux, who experimented with the head of a condemned prisoner by the name of Henri Languille, on 28 June 1905: Here, then, is what I was able to note immediately after the decapitation: the eyelids and lips of the guillotined man worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds. This phenomenon has been remarked by all those finding themselves in the same conditions as myself for observing what happens after the severing of the neck ... I waited for several seconds. The spasmodic movements ceased. [...] It was then that I called in a strong, sharp voice: "Languille!" I saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contractions – I insist advisedly on this peculiarity – but with an even movement, quite distinct and normal, such as happens in everyday life, with people awakened or torn from their thoughts. Next Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves. I was not, then, dealing with the sort of vague dull look without any expression, that can be observed any day in dying people to whom one speaks: I was dealing with undeniably living eyes which were looking at me. After several seconds, the eyelids closed again [...]. It was at that point that I called out again and, once more, without any spasm, slowly, the eyelids lifted and undeniably living eyes fixed themselves on mine with perhaps even more penetration than the first time. Then there was a further closing of the eyelids, but now less complete. I attempted the effect of a third call; there was no further movement – and the eyes took on the glazed look which they have in the dead.[26] |
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It has nothing to do with justice, and everything with a primitive desire for revenge. Quoted:
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Execution is inhuman. Bull-fucking-shit. It's about justice.  It has nothing to do with justice, and everything with a primitive desire for revenge. Well murdering someone is inhuman too. That's still going on. |
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There is no way to determine guilt to a satisfactory standard. Humans are fallible beings. I'd rather have 10,000 guilty go free than for an innocent to be punished. Therefore, I consider execution to be unconscionable. In addition to it being primitive, vengeful and barbaric, of course. You have no idea 
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