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South Carolina Carries Out 'Horrifying and Violent' Firing Squad Execution of Brad Sigmon
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I think they should all be firing squad or hanging. Make them violent again. So people take notice of them.
People are downvoting you, seemingly not getting that you're saying the deaths should be visceral not for the sake of spectacle, but so that people see and must confront how violent it really is and are thus hopefully repulsed by the practice... but you are also correct from the standpoint of minimizing the pain experienced by the person condemned to death.
This guy was dead 3 minutes after being shot.
A proper hanging that breaks the neck and does not kill you via strangulation kills you in under a minute, and its a far more simple procedure to calculate a proper drop height for a person than it is to administer lethal injection or electric shock in a way that actually minimizes suffering.
A guillotine is another very rapid and relatively painless way to die.
... Lethal injections are often poorly administered by unqualified idiots, and the cocktails they use often don't render you unconscious... meaning you can be strapped in, physically paralyzed from one part of the cocktail, in excruciating pain for hours, but unable to express the pain.
The electric chair is also a horrifically painful way to die, it still to this day often requires multiple shocks to fully kill someone, over a long duration of time.
If I can pick my execution method, I'm going with the Gallagher method. You know those giant hydraulic hammers they use for driving big foundation poles into the ground? Just stick my head under one of those. It's messy as hell, but it's almost certainly the least painful way to go. You literally cannot feel pain it happens so quickly.
Im going to do the three stooges method and ask to be hung from a tree that is currently a sapling. Seriously though they only allow a selection from a few options.
Honestly, I agree.
Complete, near instant obliteration of the brain.
Not even a gunshot to the brain is guaranteed to completely kill you instantly...
... That or something like a depressurization accident, where you get sucked through a centimeter diameter hole in a tenth of a second.
In practice, the whole point is to draw it out, to maximize fear and suffering, it’s not a bug. I’m surprised they actually allowed the firing squad to go forward.