To: mcg2000
All this concern about extended physical pain for the condemned criminal makes me wonder if the guillotine isn't such a bad method of execution after all. It was designed by a physician to be painless, wasn't it? If there was any objection by attorneys to the unconstitutionality of the momentary pain caused by the blade edge slicing through the prisioner's neck, you could always just drug them into complete unconsciousness before placing on the body board.
Of course, in my perfect world, the condemned would spend the night before execution with the sharpened blade visible on an upright trolley parked just outside his (or her) cell, You know, to permit them to concentrate on their coming rendezvous with death and the crimes that brought them to this pass.
54 posted on
09/16/2006 9:56:19 AM PDT by
Captain Rhino
( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
To: Captain Rhino
Sharpened blade? You bleeding heart liberal. Park the blade outside the cell door with the black clad executioner dulling the blade all night with a file.
72 posted on
09/16/2006 10:21:36 AM PDT by
cyclotic
(Support Cub Scouting-Raising boys to be men, and politically incorrect at the same time.)
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