# You, John Q Doper have been sentenced to death! (what do you choose?) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 12, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-john-q-doper-have-been-sentenced-to-death-what-do-you-choose/722311 "2015-06-12T02:48:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-john-q-doper-have-been-sentenced-to-death-what-do-you-choose/722311/41 "2015-06-13T00:11:14Z")
Nuclear Warhead, minimum 125kt ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-john-q-doper-have-been-sentenced-to-death-what-do-you-choose/722311/42 "2015-06-13T01:04:52Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I want to be hung (they was right!). They’re asking if you’re willing to help out with the snu snu. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-john-q-doper-have-been-sentenced-to-death-what-do-you-choose/722311/43 "2015-06-13T01:11:33Z")
I wish I could say I would be brave enough to go for fast decapitation, with protocols in place to try to resolve the SDMB’s burning question about consciousness, but I suspect I would wimp out and pick nitrogen asphyxiation. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-john-q-doper-have-been-sentenced-to-death-what-do-you-choose/722311/44 "2015-06-13T02:58:30Z")
Bullet to the back of the neck. Instant lights out, not like any of the really grotesque methods that some states have come up with because they have over-thought it. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-john-q-doper-have-been-sentenced-to-death-what-do-you-choose/722311/45 "2015-06-13T03:59:20Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Hanged. And they was wrong…I wanna be hung. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-john-q-doper-have-been-sentenced-to-death-what-do-you-choose/722311/46 "2015-06-13T08:53:58Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Hanged. Better watch out! The sheriff is near! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-john-q-doper-have-been-sentenced-to-death-what-do-you-choose/722311/47 "2015-06-13T10:13:02Z")
> [@Missy2U](#): > > Picking last meals is way more fun, but lethal injection, I suppose. > > ETA: What’s the “Q” stand for? 😃 It stands for “from Anytown, U.S.A.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-john-q-doper-have-been-sentenced-to-death-what-do-you-choose/722311/48 "2015-06-13T16:16:18Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > I had a good laugh thinking about someone being hung in space. They put the noose around his neck and kick the stool out from under him… Three days later he’s still alive, floating there and the guy who hung him screaming “Why isn’t this working!” > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > \…the Guillotine. Hey, they ought to have it pretty well perfected by then and can’t think of anything much surer and quicker–snip and it’s off. The following week, the hangman and he guillotine operator would go get drunk together in Ten-Forward, each lamenting the loss of his job. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-john-q-doper-have-been-sentenced-to-death-what-do-you-choose/722311.md?page=2)