Which form of Execution would you prefer?

Radrook

Radrook

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If you were about to be executed, God forbid, of course, which form of execution would you prefer?

1. Beheading via the guillotine

2. Lethal Injection?

3. The Gas Chamber?

4. Electric Chair?

5. Firing squad?
 

As strange as it might sound I would prefer a firing squad. All the other options involve having to wait while things are meticulously arranged. Firing squad is just a matter of taking you a to a nearby location and shooting while you are blindfolded. So it seems far more humane because it minimizing psychological trauma. Injection? Well, I once watched a film where this prisoner was being slowly attached to IVs and he fought furiously to remain conscious while the chemicals were being slowly fed into his bloodstream. Bullets are quicker.

BTW Under Castro's Cuba, during its initial aftermath, the prisoners had to dig their own graves before being shot. After which they toppled in backwards and were then buried.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I've been thinking about this thread. You get the death penalty for murder. So, I must have murdered somebody. So, who would I have liked to murder, if I did?
That gynecologist with her crummy three day deodorant stuff ads.
Then I'd gladly take the needle.
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True, murder is deemed worthy of capital punishment in some USA states and other locations. There is also the possibility of a death sentence for desertion during war in the military.
 
Muskrat said:
I think i might be alone….but guillotine is pretty painless…..
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It was used with the intention of being a human way to execute people during the French Revolutionary War when executions became rampant. About the effects on consciousness, well, this observer seems to have detected that the head continues to live for a while after the decapitation.

Living heads
Further information: Decapitation § Physiology of death by decapitation
Gabriel Beaurieux, a physician who observed the head of executed prisoner Henri Languille, wrote 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.

Guillotine - Wikipedia
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Radrook said:
My apologies if I disturbed you with the question. Not my intention.
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It didn't disturb me... I just prefer positive thoughts over "how would you like to die?" I'm more of a "what are you going to do this week to show the world you're glad to be alive?" type of person. So what ARE you going to do positive and/or to help a fellow traveler in life this week, Mr. Rad?

And yes, I know this may hijack the thread... sorry if it does, but I'm going to be making some baked goods for a neighbor who just lost a loved one instead of thinking about whether I'd rather be shot to death, electrocuted, or beheaded. 🤷‍♀️
 
CallMeKate said:
It didn't disturb me... I just prefer positive thoughts over "how would you like to die?" I'm more of a "what are you going to do this week to show the world you're glad to be alive?" type of person. So what ARE you going to do positive and/or to help a fellow traveler in life this week, Mr. Rad?

And yes, I know this may hijack the thread... sorry if it does, but I'm going to be making some baked goods for a neighbor who just lost a loved one instead of thinking about whether I'd rather be shot to death, electrocuted, or beheaded. 🤷‍♀️
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