Well, it’s a boring job. They have to jazz it up a little.
They did steal my idea.
Do you think they’ll pay me royalties?
I just realized: when did killing people become a boring job? That’s bizarre. Nothing against you, but if killing people becomes something that bores me, I think boredom is the least of my problems.
I sentence you to death by WHOOSHING!
wow. my first whoosh.
that’s a lesson for the kids, i think: rum and cokes and posting on the SDMB dont’ mix.
what’s whooshing?
I’ve never been an advocate of the death penalty but as I get older, I understand why some people cry out for it, especially in childkiller cases. I think it would act as a deterrent instead of the tax payers having to fork out to keep some wretch alive and isolated from the other prisoners. Call getting locked up in a secure enviroment punishment? Nope. Punishment should fit the crime.
I read a brilliant book a few years ago written by the last hangman in Britain. Whilst I wouldn’t want to go to the gallows myself, he seemed very meticulous in his calculations - body weight, thickness of neck etc so that they would die instantly but there was always the odd one who ended up choking to death… Personally I’d opt for lethal injection. Must be like a general anaesthetic.
What do you think will happen to Saddam should he ever be caught alive? How should he be dealt with? Death sentence? I’d say yes. Method? I’m happy to contradict myself on this one! (there’s always the exception to the rule)
The most humane AND ethical death penalty is for the bad guy to be killed at the scene of the crime, by his intended victim.
No rotting in jail…
No traumatic trial…
No rapes and beatings by fellow prisoners…
No worrying about the execution…
No time spent as a hunted fugitive…
No long walk down that last hallway to the death chamber…
Just “I’m gonna get me some of that dude’s money! Hey, hand over the… UURRRP!”
The sound made when the point of a post flies over one’s head.
ummm… Vlad Dracul… have you actually thought about what you wrote? What would then happen to the intended victim who in the end, turned out to be the killer? eh? eh? I was gonna say that sounded Irish but given the level of “strong feeling” I suspect you may be American but feel free to correct me if I’m wrong
3waygeek - thanks!
Well according to the guy I had quoted, the iraqi executioners ignored saddam’s inhuman death decree and opted for a more (“the most”) humane method, as saddam was not present. So they strapped explosives to the guy instead of hanging him. Stuck him next to a sand dune and blew him up into little pieces.
One thing I’ve never understood though - when someone receives the death penalty, why then, are they left on Death Row for up to 20 years? That’s a life sentence in itself - which they have served - and then they are executed at the end of all that. Why do they do that? It’s cost a fortune to keep that person - why not just execute them straight away or after their appeal?
Lethal injection is gives you a a drug combination that collapses your lungs and heart. Theoretically it’s very painful, but the paralysing drug you get injected with first means the person won’t cry out or flail around so no one really knows how bad it is. No thank you very much I wouldn’t want lethal injection, bullet in the back of the head is probably best.
So by this description lethal injection isn’t humane at all! Collapsed lungs are indeed extremely painful and collapsing the heart would be as painful as a heart attack. By this description it would mean you would literally gasp yourself to death! YUCK!
Herein lies the problem of the death penalty. While it’s emotionally satisfying for a judge to say “Guilty! Off with his head!” and have it carried the next morning, the Americans try to be civilized about it, just in case an innocent man got convicted. As a result, they have an elaborate appeals system in place to act as a safeguard.
Trouble is, when confronted with death, the convicted person may as well take advantage of every appeal possible. After all, what’s the alternative?
The system would work a lot better if the guilty ones would just admit “well, I’m guilty, you got me, where’s the death house? Let’s get it over with.”
Use laughing gas.
No smell, no needles, no agony, rope burns etc. Laughing gas is not poisonous and can be harmlessly vented after the fact.
If laughing gas isn’t poisonous, then how would you die? Laugh yourself to death? Has anyone ever done that? LOL! (and as for rope burns? you’ll not know, will you? )
Maybe the condemned should be allowed to choose their own mode of execution, likeArthur Jarrett in Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life,” who was chased off the edge of a cliff by naked girls to conveniently fall into a ready-dug grave with priest and mourners already in place.
A brief search of the internet yielded no downloadable clip, but here’s a link to the screenplay (with more pics!) for those who haven’t seen the film.
P.S. Laughing gas, like pretty much everything else, is poisonous in large enough quantities…
Well if all you had to breath was the laughing gas then there would be no oxygen. Without this you can’t live.
:smack:
While this is a popular urban legend, it’s also completely untrue. Lethal injections use a variety of substances in various jurisdictions, but they all have one thing in common: the victim is administered a powerful anaeasthetic first. Sometimes the aneasthetic is all that is administerd in a massive overdose.
Ever had a pet put to sleep? Exactlythe same procedure.
Could someone who believes this myth pleas explain something?Why do you believe any authority would simply immobilise a victim, rather than aneasthetising them? In either case the vicitm “won’t cry out or flail around so no one really knows how bad it is”. However if the victim is aneasthetised they feel no more than an aneathetised patient during surgery. So why exactly would an authoity carry out an unnecessarily cruel procedure? Particularly in the US, why do yo think no civil rights group has ever pursued the authorities for cruel and unusual punishment/torture?
It really doesn’t stand up to a moments scrutiny, even absent of the actual facts.