If they're going to execute you, why do you care how it's done?

I would prefer not to poop.

That’s easy! OLD AGE! :slight_smile:

I would prefer death by overeating. Just fill me up on gourmet food every day until I keel over of a heart attack. It should only take a year or so so I would be willing to start it a year before my execution date.

Just something quick and painless.

If not for the film se7en, this might sound appealing…

I’ll go with the firing squad just like I posted in the ‘hang or shot’ thread a few weeks ago. I’d also still prefer to be shot in the head. Quick and painless. I don’t care about the being dead part. It’s the long drawn out dieing part that I’d like to avoid. A poster in that other thread mentioned the Russian method of putting a bullet in the back of your head as you are being lead out into the exercise yard one day. Just a quick BOOM! Headshot! Game over.

Death by snoo-snoo! :smiley:

Failing that, I’ll opt for the bullet in the back of the head. Blow out the spinal connection, etc. and it would be like turning off a light switch.

What do you think is a dignified method?

I think seppuku is dignified, but I wouldn’t want to do it. I think I’d choose wussy and painless over dignified.

I’m thinking lethal injection would be the most dignified of the currently available methods.

I want something quick, sure, and showy.

Strap me to an atom bomb!

If execution were inevitable but I got to choose the method (and old age wasn’t an option) I’d opt for the guillotine. I’ve always wondered just how long the head can really stay conscious sans a body.

How would you be able to see your watch? :slight_smile:

Me too - a nuclear bomb.

I don’t know…I think if I was going to be executed, I’d rather be burnt at the stake than have my head cut off.

I would want to be given plenty of anaesthetic first. Then after I am passed out do whatever you want to kill me. I don’t care after that. Screw dignity, as long as I don’t know about it and I can’t feel it anything is fair game. Shoot me, give me lethal injection, gas me, freeze me, I don’t care. I would like to be creamated afterwards and have my ashes spread somewhere cool but I suppose that doesn’t matter too much either since I won’t know about it either way.

Being “blown from the cannon” might work for me. Quick, AND showy.

Now that’s brutally oppressing the hapless masses in the name of Greater Empire for ya. :cool:

If there’s nothing else I can do, I would like to inconvenience the bastards who are having me killed. I’d ask to be executed by telekinesis, or by having a trick-shot artist making an impossible shot, or at the end of a human game of Mousetrap or something. I can’t hurt them like they’ll hurt me - that job will be left to my bloodthirsty followers - but I’d like to make the process as a big pain in the ass.

Why is hanging undignified? Is it because you crap your pants and shoot your load at the same time? I don’t see what’s so bad about coming and going at the same time. :wink: Frankly, hanging and firing squad (preferably with a single round to the back of the head), and the guillotine, now that I think about it, seem far more humane than the methods commonly in use today.

The chemicals used in lethal injections are no longer acceptable for use in animals, and for some bizarre reason, they won’t just shoot you up with a lethal dose of valium or similar (I’d think that the evidence locker would have plenty of heroin to clear out death row). The electric chair can be painful, I’m sure (as anyone who’s gotten a shock can testify), and there’s some evidence that the gas chamber can be painful as well (all that muscle constriction, doncha know).

Now, if I was going to be able to choose going out in a flashy manner, here’s what I’d pick: Strapped to a metal cross on top of the Empire State Building on a moonless night, then, precisely at midnight, all the power in the city is routed through the cross, thus electrocuting me in a couple of milliseconds, while providing a lightshow no one would ever be able to forget (oh, and in one of my hands, I want to be holding a cast iron frying pan with bacon in it). :cool:

Man that’s gonna hurt like fuck :eek:

Gimme a bullet in the head anytime, just not yet tho’

Morphine overdose sounds fine to me.