Three words: Hot air balloon!
NOW we’re talking – that’s so green!
Sigh. I just read the article, even though all it did was confirm my suspicion. Why am I not at all surprised that Drake is a Republican? I’d be willing to wager that he’s a big ol’ God fearin’ Christian as well.
ETA: Oh wait, I don’t have to wager. From Drake’s own website:
Family values should take precedence. Firm Pro-Life advocate: protecting the sanctity of life and the unborn, believing that life begins at conception. (With no apologies) God should never be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance when spoken in our schools or removed from / within government buildings. Prayer should be allowed in schools.
What the heck is it with Republican Christians and their bloodlust?
Ah! I like the value adding aspects of your solution. I guess if you sold TV rights, you could offset the cost of the honey, too.
Alternatively, we could use already-scheduled flights. Such as when a family charters a flyover of the Grand Canyon, you could send the perp up with them to be shoved out there. Or better still, one of those helicopter tours of the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Have you even read the bible? It’s like a Quentin Tarantino movie. Hell, Samson killed thirty dudes at his own wedding.
Cool.
I say bring back hanging. Or if you’re going to go the guillotine route, make the executioner wear a hood, just like back in the old days.
I want an execution where the convicted is chained standing and hit by a wrecking ball. There needs to be a high-speed camera filming this.
Did Samson kill them all personally or did his Deadly Viper Assassination Squad help?
I’m tired of thinking like a smalltime chump.
The key to combining a human execution with cost-effective delivery of life snuffing services is clearly to execute in bulk. What’s the worst part of being executed? I say it isn’t the pain, it’s the loneliness. And what could be more convivial and more comforting for your last moments on earth than to share them with the people who really, deep down know you best? That’s right, one last moment to pause with your fellow child rapists, serial killers, trigger happy gunmen or wrongfully convicted black brethren.
And volume dealing has to bring down the cost per kill to the state and may I add, it is the greener alternative.
Actually, you could add a premium to the charter fee for the additional entertainment value. Hmmm… execution for profit. I like it!
There are two Straight Dope columns discussing that.
Lawyers are professionally amoral; doctors aren’t. They can’t even find trained people to inject the poison, much less cut the condemned up with a scalpel. Most likely you’d end up with some amateurs trying to cut up the person and botching it.
You need to develop a methodology that takes advantage of bulk executions. I hope you’re not thinking of the old “everybody get into this big shower room” routine – that is sooo 1944.
I am skeptical about the last. If the doc can have clean hands regarding the killing, it would be quite easy to morally justify harvesting the organs from a corpse and saving other lives as a result. The moral choice is reduced to using the organs for good, or letting them rot. The doctor’s choice becomes one of saving people or letting them die unnecessarily.
I don’t think a doctor could legally do so – they’re not permitted to participate in executions, IIRC.
Being dead afterwards is a close second. Or so I’m told.
I say it’s the wait. There’s an infinite cruelty in telling somebody he’s going to be put to death X days from now. Dying’s easy. Looming death isn’t.
As for a most humane execution method, I’d suggest the Mythbusters way: as much high explosives as the condemned can carry. Quick, spectacular *and *conducive to betting games such as “how far will the liver go ?” or “guess the weight of the largest chunk, win money”.
Actually, it might be in the Death spinoff now that I think about it.
One time involves a handful of characters musing on how they’d rather die (because one of their friends did), and another involves a guy actually setting it up for himself (as part of a sort of Groundhog Day thing, only more extravagant. And morbid, I suppose)
How about giving the guy two cell phones - one of which is rigged to set off the explosives, one of which is a normal phone, which the Governor may call with a last minute clemency offer. Which one will ring first…
I’m not certain that legality is the stumbling block. Some code of ethics thing, I think, that doesn’t have the force of law (and yet does result in physicians not making themselves available for the practice). I 'll look up a few things; and maybe one of our resident medicos will drop by in the meantime.