Choose your death penalty...

[flipside]

Death by life.

[mrmitchell]

A while ago, a death row inmate in Arkansas tried to appeal his conviction or at least get the method of execution changed since he claimed the lethal injection makes you feel searing pain for the second before you die. I think he had something to his case, but I don't think he won.

[Winston]

You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

[LordShiva]

The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

[Q Classic]

Why not expose them to over 100 Sieverts of radiation?

[TCO]

Use manly units: roentgen, rem.

[KrazyHorse]

There are too many units in radiation physics.

Curies, Sieverts, Roentgens, REMs etc

[Q Classic]

I'm just using the SI unit for dose equivalent.

If I recall correctly, 1 Sv is like 100 rems?

[Pekka]

I think the interesting trade off is between leaving a pretty body and pain.

If I should have my head blown off.. no pain, but no pretty body. Should I take lethal injection, pretty body, lots of pain.

So, an obvious choice would be to get something that leaves a pretty body and least amount of pain. Firing squad, through the heart, thank you. Instant death, pretty body, niceeee...

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Pekka
I think the interesting trade off is between leaving a Firing squad, through the heart, thank you. Instant death, pretty body, niceeee...

A shot through the heart does a quick death...but is it instant? It would stop the flow of blood, but your brain would still be working.

I say a bullet through the brain.

[Pekka]

I guess it's not instant, but still fast enough.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
I'm just using the SI unit for dose equivalent.

Like I said.

[TCO]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
There are too many units in radiation physics.

Curies, Sieverts, Roentgens, REMs etc

Yup. Ya gotta love "barns" though.

[Dis]

curies is a little different since it measures the radioactivity of a substance. We mainly used it for radioactive sources (used to calibrate radiacs). In the navy we used REM. Don't forget the other one- rontgens. I forget what a sievert is, we never used them.

So you wouldn't use curies to determine the radiation coming from a nuclear reactor. A cury is something that measures radioactivity in decays per second. Where as to measure a reactor we used REM. or Rontgen equivalent man. It combines the rontgen measurement with the effects on man. Basically it was understood that 1000 REM would kill you. . Over the course of my navy career I recieved almost 700 millirem. This is only gamma radiation. Our TLD's don't measure neutron radiation (though not much is released outside the secondary shield).

And checking wiki, there is now a new unit of radioactivity. . The Becquerel. Can't these scientists make up their minds? How dare they diminish the memory of Madam Curie.

[Sirotnikov]

FIXED.

Originally posted by Dis

Originally posted by 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."

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.