How would you rather be executed?
For some reason, you find yourself facing the death penalty, and you have 5 choices to pick from. Which one will you choose?
Electric chair | 5 | |
Guillotine | 23 | |
Firing squad | 24 | |
Hanging | 4 | |
Lethal injection | 30 |
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For some reason, you find yourself facing the death penalty, and you have 5 choices to pick from. Which one will you choose?
Electric chair | 5 | |
Guillotine | 23 | |
Firing squad | 24 | |
Hanging | 4 | |
Lethal injection | 30 |
Now with 47% more than 26% deaths annually!! That is down from last year, hold your applause...!
I mean I get the slim pickens reference but I like to use the latest references.
Best death is the one you never see coming and you are dead before you realized it.
So pretty much a sniper blowing my brains out.
Probably guillotine. It looks like it has the lowest chance of errors, but I would definitely combine it with a few other things. First, an injection to make me unconscious. Then, immediately after the blade cuts my head off, have a team of crack shots riddle my head with bullets. If they do it right, I'll be 100% verified dead in less than a second or two.
If they want to be lazy about it, I guess I'd go with just the firing squad. Worst case scenario, I feel like sort of a badass for a fleeting moment.
Firing squad.
I think lethal injection would suck the worst. Read a bit about Clayton Lockett. It took 43 minutes for him to die that way, a botched execution.
Yikes. I don't think lethal injections are painless like some people think. It's just that you're not able to react because you've been chemically immobilized. That's scary to think about.
Ironically the most humane murder method was in fact the guillotine. However I think went to a less humane option becuase it appears more civilized. As in the courts care about the well being of death row inmates. If you are on death row the world has already given up on you and deemed you unsavable. Goverments all about looks.
Yeah cause all of us have had shots in our lives. It hurts maybe for a second then it is over, except maybe feeling like you got punched in the area but not bad.
So, what might sound like the least painful method is probably the most painful, at least out of those options.
2 points.
guillotine, because its a sure thing, quick ( no pain ) and re- usable.
bullets cost money, hanging hurts.
You either are hung straight and basically choke to death.
Or, if done well the knot is placed on the side and snaps your neck.
Its quick, but why risk it.
A well oiled Guillotine is a sure thing.
2 Death should be controlled and the parts harvested.
All your blood, your heart, lungs, bone marrow, etc.
This gos for everyone one death row, and anyone feeling like ending it.
Id make it legal, safe, and benefitial. ( spell check that B. )
Crash into a wall/ divider at 300+kmh without a seatbelt, airbags disconnected and Ozzy Osbourne's "Momma I'm coming home" blaring.
Right, I have so much grace I can barely stand lol. Don't think that's the case.
I want to look the people in the eye as they take me out, because, well, God has grace and I will be with him soon if I'm being executed.
The naked thing, well nude shit is always more fun lol.
If I had to choose firing squad. See if I canf get one last laugh in before I die
Okay but lethal injection is actually a lot more painful than people think it is. Wont go in depth but John Oliver made an episode about it on Last Week Tonight if you want to hear about it
If I could die on my OWN terms, I would want to go peacefully in my sleep, just like my grandfather did. Not screaming bloody murder in fear, like the passengers in his car.
Flogging or crucifixion, anyone?
Or flogging followed by crucifixion?
Still happens today...
Did you know that devotional self-crucifixition is still practiced on Good Friday?
In the Philippines, some Catholics are voluntarily, non-lethally crucified for a limited time on Good Friday to imitate the sufferings of Christ. Pre-sterilised nails are driven through the palm of the hand between the bones, while there is a footrest to which the feet are nailed.
Wow, pretty sick. It's no secret that many devoutly religious followers suffer from depression.
I know about that.
I wouldn't do it myself, but I understand why they want to do it, and I respect them.
I have depression too. Where does that come into it?
Yanno, I'm glad that I don't understand them. I'm glad that I have never been depressed, and I'm glad that I neither believe nor disbelieve in God. I am thankful I'm alive. I'm thankful for scientific thinking, and for the impersonal randomness of the universe. Nihilists cannot deny that life will eventually fill all voids.
I just wish I could get laid. Girls are the most intractable of all puzzles.
What good is scientific thinking if it doesn't help us understand people?
The first mathematicians came out of the Islamic world. The medievals started science as we know it.
The opposition of science and faith is a comforting narrative for atheists, but that's what it is - a narrative. Popularised in the anglo-saxon world in the 19th century.
I do not idealize science. Actually, I don't idealize anything. Happy talk narrative is inane. Devotional crucifixions are good material for Monty Python. You did express interest in CBT a while ago. I think that's a good way for smart people to help others most of the time.
Being the morbid soul I am understand how ineffective most of these methods are. Guillotine I'd be worried if blade was sharpened. Electric chair is simply excruciating and is basically going to fry the victem. Hanging is meant to break the neck but there is documented cases of it failing and the victem slowly straggles to death. Lethal injection is how they kill animals and is still debatable how Humane that is. I think the most effective way to kill anything would be to knock them out than swiftly remove the head. If the squads any good they'll be able down a person with one clean shot.
I would choose a slow overdose of pentobarbital like pets get when they are put down. I do not think criminals deserve this courtesy. Lethal injection should stop their heart immediately with no sedation.
Lethal injection. Funny thing is, I actually consider euthanasia an option for if I'm tired of life, and they use similar methods, I believe.
They put you to sleep first, which is the main reason I prefer lethal injection to the other methods. I want to die in my sleep.
I love the oceans. Just tie a heavy weight on my feet and throw my body in the Mariana’s Trench.
Hmm you might actually be crushed to death before you drown depending on how cruel the executioner is. Attaching a scuba tank to you and incasing you in irons. You dont die of suffocation you die of being crushed by thousands of atmospheric pressure.
That's a good question. I feel like the brave option would be firing squad or hanging, it feels like you're deliberately facing your death straight on. But when the time comes I feel like I'd chicken out and pick the lethal injection, that certainly sounds like the more desirable way to go.
Actually I've just thought of something. A firing squad wouldn't be my first choice for one main reason. After clinical death, but while your brain is still technically alive, your brain is supposed to release a flood of DMT and it's meant to give you cool hallucinations and feel really good. But if you're shot in the head, then that could completely kill your brain before you get the chance to feel that euphoric sensation. So I think I'd go for the lethal injection after all.
That's funny, I chose hanging. Of course these days I hate all the times people make grammatical errors related to that word.
As in 'he hung' as opposed to 'he hanged'?
If I were to go for hanging, it'd be because I imagine it being public, and outdoors. I'd want to invite people to come. And more people would hear my last words that way.
Why would you prefer to be hanged?
Why on earth would you chose hanging? Its slowly getting choked hanging by your neck verses firing squad or guillotine when its just over before you know it. Are you sure you would actually go with that?
I heard it's actually very painful. At least a bullet to the brain stem ends most your suffering instantly.