It is actually a pretty painless way to go.
...and it makes great julian fries when not in use.
Back?
I didn’t know they ever used it here.
Kind of hard to botch an execution with a guillotine...
But it can be done.... There is no 100% surefire way.
(The electric chair. The gas chamber. Lethal injections. All have had horrific problems.)
I dunno, firing squads and hanging worked pretty well.
Personally, I’d just as soon see them sentenced to death and then turned over to the family and friends of the murder victim.
IMO they should reinstate the guillotine and auction off the rights to pull the cord. It would go a long way toward reducing both recidivism and the debt.
The constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, it does not guarantee a painless execution.
Nitrogen Asphxiation
Strap the condemned down
put on a brain wave monitor
put on a breathing mask
apply 1.1 atmospheres of 99% pure nitrogen
Condemned passes out painlessly
wait till the brain waves go flat
If I were sentenced to death, I’d choose firing squad.
If hanging was good enough for the Nazis at Nuremburg, then it should be good enough today.
I bought a little plastic model guillotine, Revell, Aurora? ‘Chamber of Horrors’. Little guy, you could stand him up, slide him over to the blade, raise the blade, strike off his little head. Of course the real fun was sniffing that Testor’s glue and paint ...
OK, but in Ill-Annoy we have to get the death penalty back first.
It wasn't "botched", he is dead; it was successful.
The drunkard comes to the guillotine next. He also decides to die face up, hoping that he will be as fortunate as the priest. They raise the blade of the guillotine and release it. It comes speeding down and suddenly stops just inches from his neck. Again, the authorities take this as a sign of divine intervention, and they release the drunkard as well.
Next is the engineer. He, too, decides to die facing up. As they slowly raise the blade of the guillotine, the engineer suddenly says, "Hey, I see what your problem is ..."
I don’t see why a massive overdose of pure heroin is out of the question.
But the liberals don’t want efficient executions - then they’d have nothing to denounce as “barbaric”.
Bring it to Capital Hill, park it right outside the Capital entrance one day, then over to the Senate Office building one day, then over to the House Office building......
:-)
There are better and more effective methods of capital punishment. If William Wallace can die in the following way, so can thugs in America. Walace was stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield. He was hanged, drawn and quartered — strangled by hanging, but released while he was still alive, emasculated, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts. His preserved head (dipped in tar) was placed on a pike.
Beheading sounds so ..... mooslum.
Hanging (when done by an expert as it was in England during the 20th Century) is incredibly quick and unlikely to go wrong. There are horror stories associated with hangings, but they tended to involve situations where the executioner was not a professional.
Garrote seems like it gets the job done without the blood mess.