Choose your death penalty...

[Zkribbler]

Last week, a judge struck down the way California carries out its death penalty. The case involved a convict getting a lethal injection. The doctor missed his vein, so it took him 1/2 hour to die. WTF??

When I was watching "Return of the Pirates," there was a scene where the People's Republic of China had captured some pirates operating from PRC territory. The pirates were forced to kneel. A soldier came up behind each, put the barrel of the rifle against the back of the pirate's head and, at a signal, they all pulled their triggers. Instant death for all pirates.

If I were going to be executed, the Chinese way seems to be the simplest, quickest and most painless.

If you were facing the death penalty, what method would you choose??

[Tuberski]

Utah used to give convicts the choice of firing squad if they wanted it.

ACK!

[SlowwHand]

I'd take lethal injection in a heart beat. Well, you know what I mean.

[Dauphin]

Death by chocolate.

[Zkribbler]

The problem with the traditional firing squad is that there's a group of guys, standing at a distance, all firing at the same convict. Those who don't want a death on their conscience, purposely miss. Others are incompetent and miss. I wouldn't want to be shot to pieces but still be alive.

I like the Chinese method of point blank range by one guy. (Well, maybe "like" is too strong a word...)

[LordShiva]

Being locked in a room with several hot women until I die of a heart attack or exhaustion or something.

But it would take much longer than a "1/2 hour."

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
The problem with the traditional firing squad is that there's a group of guys, standing at a distance, all firing at the same convict. Those who don't want a death on their conscience, purposely miss. Others are incompetent and miss. I wouldn't want to be shot to pieces but still be alive.

I like the Chinese method of point blank range by one guy. (Well, maybe "like" is too strong a word...)

In Utah, one gun is loaded with a blank, so the shooters can always have a doubt about whether their shot killed him.

The shooters are police officers from the jurisdiction where the murder took place.

ACK!

[Dis]

Re: Choose your death penalty...

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Last week, a judge struck down the way California carries out its death penalty. The case involved a convict getting a lethal injection. The doctor missed his vein, so it took him 1/2 hour to die. WTF??

When I was watching "Return of the Pirates," there was a scene where the People's Republic of China had captured some pirates operating from PRC territory. The pirates were forced to kneel. A soldier came up behind each, put the barrel of the rifle against the back of the pirate's head and, at a signal, they all pulled their triggers. Instant death for all pirates.

If I were going to be executed, the Chinese way seems to be the simplest, quickest and most painless.

If you were facing the death penalty, what method would you choose??

It's kind of messy that way. . And the death penalty execution is seen by journalists and victim's families. So perhaps it's a little to messy for them.

And then there is the fact of the matter of the guy who actually pulls the trigger. How could he feel good about his job when he comes home at the end of a long day? . I think we could build a robot to do our killing. Perhaps give it an ai and the ability to think for itself. I'm sure nothing will go wrong.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Being locked in a room with several hot women until I die of a heart attack or exhaustion or something.

The problem with this is that it would take countless manhours for the morticians to pry the smile off your face.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
The problem with this is that it would take countless manhours for the morticians to pry the smile off your face.

That, and the fact that those women would never again be happy with any other man

[Dis]

Originally posted by LordShiva


That, and the fact that those women would never again be happy with any other man

why would I care about that?

[Aeson]

You know when you go to the doctor to have something done... and they put you under anaesthesia? "Count to 3..." and then you wake up, and had felt absolutely nothing... Well I'd want to go like that. I really don't see why if we have to keep the death penalty, we can't just do it as humanely as possible.

Another humane (and cheaper) way would be asphixiation with straight nitrogen. (IIRC it knocks you out very quickly...)

[Addled Platypus]

this screams for a POLL !!

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Platypus Rex
this screams for a POLL !!

Platypus Rex is right.

Anyway, I always thought that the Chinese method was far superior. Bang, one clean shot and bye bye. Maybe give the delinquent some tranquilizing pills before.

Or give him a normal anaesthetic injection and then to the Guillotine. It can't fail (Frenchmen perfectioned the method, for sure).



I don't care about the victim's relatives in this particular point. If they want to see the offender die, they'd better bare a little bit of blood (the person DIES there, blood or no blood is pretty irrelevant).
If you can't see someone die, simply don't go watch someone die.

[aneeshm]

Shot in the head simultaneously from the four tetrahedral directions.