Excuse me? A member of the Straight Dope Message Board is called a Doper. It’s nothing to do with drug slang; here, “straight dope” means “direct truth”.
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i think he would. The same jolt that kills a 110 pound woman might not kill a 350 pound man, and a jolt that would kill a 350 pound man might incinerate a 110 pound woman. I think there is more to it than just flipping a switch.
The reason I mention Mrs. Rosenberg is that when Mr and Mrs. Rosenberg were executed for treason Mr. Rosenberg went first and was executed as planned. When it was Mrs. Rosenberg’s turn the same jolt that killed her husband DID NOT kill her. They had to give her “another dose” to finish the job.
There’s also Albert Pierrepoint, who did more or less the same thing for the British, and who developed the variable drop method of hanging. This guy was really into his work, although the movie about him shows him as conflicted, eventually resigning as the official hangman when he became convinced that capital punishment didn’t work as a deterrent.
That jackass had a ‘documentary’ on IIRC the history channel a few years ago. What a moron, and what a bunch of twaddle … most memorable was going around chipping samples of brick or stone in one of the gas chambers and chemically testing it and declaring there was no residue … I seem to remember in the pix from the liberation that the gas chamber was plastered, and all the plaster was spalled off or just removed, so unless the zyklon b could soak through plaster, no shit there wasnt residue after 60+ years of weathering.
