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I think firing is romantic ,murder rare will go up.


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As opposed to which other capitol punishment method?

Does it kill 'em deaderer?

You'll get the chair! That's an effective deterrent.

Actually nitrogen is better than something like carbon monoxide. You're already breathing 86% nitrogen mix now, bumping it up can be reversed until you get to the point of brain damage. Can't reverse electricity or bullets or a noose.

Nitrogen sounds painless, just pass out and die. If it is as good as it sounds, that would get past the legal issue concerning "cruel punishment" and would not need to be administered by a doctor.

I feel the same way...at least it MIGHT convince some to take different paths...

I'm about the other way... as cruel and inhumane as you can make it for the sick bastards that deserve it.

Or yet from teh good book, simply and eye for an eye. If they lethally injected their victim fine... if they strangled em or burned em to death fine....

Great! Flintlocks and PRB would work FANTASTIC!

The aroma of blackpowder would give all spectators a view back to 1776 and a 'natural high'!!

Who cares about cruel and inhumane. What about their victims?
Just shoot them, hang them, drop from air plane at 60,000 feet up, or electrocute them. Just be done no taking care of them for 60 years. There are lots of ways to kill people quickly and cheaply.

Being from Mississippi, I am pondering how to decide which method of execution should be used:

1. Let the prisoner decide which one to die by.

2. Let the state decide which one.

3. Let the victim's family decide which one.

or

4. Let the Wheel decide (as in Barter City on "Beyond Thunderdome". With this option, their could be a lottery where people choose and if they guessed right, a person could be chosen out of the winners group that would be able to either pull the trigger, flip the switch, pop the cyanide cylinder, or tie the hangman's knot.

drawn and quartered.

For a long time, I have thought just putting those who refuse to politely participate in civil society on an island someplace would be fitting. Drop them off and leave. Nothing more, nothing less. Patrol it so no one comes or goes and that would be the only on going expense involved.

The British tried that. More than once.

Bring it on, "THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM" is far to worried about the rights of the felon!

They couldn't give a fu-k about the victims in entirely too many cases.

Or forced listening to Dick Vitale call March Madness games..

Yeah that would work. Australia might be good. Oh, wait....

The only reason I can think of to reverse it is to put the POS through the procedure again.

There's a lot to be said for something that's immediate.

Been telling my wife for a couple of years that Nebraska just needs to go to firing squads since we can't get any of the meds that they approve for injections.

Gangnam style use a 20mm cannon.

Thanks Doc!

A close friend of mine is a doc as well, though of all the medical things we've chatted about none are related to this...

Since you have researched this topic, i am confused about something.

Namely death by decapitation.

Can you help me understand how a person who is decapitated via guillotine would experience excruciating pain?

I can appreciate that having an appendage cut off would hurt (like a finger), but something as significant as completely severing the brain from the remainder of the nervous system seems pretty speedy.

When i've smashed something or seriously injured myself, i believe i've gone into shock and didn't really feel how badly i was hurt. Like cutting myself with a very sharp knife - i didn't really feel it right away.

Wouldn't decapitation be similar?

TIA

A big wood chipper with the exhaust directed into a sewer. Nearly instantaneous death if tossed in head first and no body to dispose of.