[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Most Painless Execution Method (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 6/12/2006 8:12:36 AM EDT
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It looks like SCOTUS will be listening to see if injection is a cruel and unusual form of punishment. I believe they will listen to same argument about electrocution too. So, if both injection and electrocution are ruled cruel and unusual punishment what execution method do you think would not be ruled cruel and unusual? I guess the question come down to what is the most painless execution method? I have heard that hanging and guillotine are both painless as they sever the spinal cord. Any other painless methods you know or heard about? |
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I don't see how there's anything cruel or unusual about "lethal injection" if done properly. I just euthenized my cat this weekend, and sedatives combined with a lethal injection was incredibly peaceful and humane, and I cannot imagine a "better" was to kill if you have to. The only way they could make it MORE humane, would be to pump a sedative gas into an inmate's cell while he is sleeping, and then inject the lethal drug before the sedative wears off - that way, the person wouldn't even KNOW they were being executed. |
I like your idea. I say they can give him to me, I'll give him an execution of papercuts. |
The people protesting this don't really think that the injection itself is cruel. They want all capital punishment banned, no matter the method. To them, the execution itself is what is cruel and unusual. But they won't say that in court. So instead they spew bullshit about how it is horribly cruel that someone should be subjected to the same horrible torture that we subject all our kids to when they get vaccinated. 
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Also eliminates the need for an autopsy and the expense of burial. Just hose the area down! |
I thought it was laugh out loud funny and ridiculous when they gave a druggy a stay of execution recently because the needle would hurt him too much. The reason it'd hurt too much is because he poked himself with a needle one too many times while shooting up so now his veins are messed up and it'd be cruel to stick another one in him now...  Just cut his fucking head off then. |
Correct answer. |
+1 It's all bullshit. Getting slugged in the head and knocked out is painless. Then at that point you can do whatever you want. Severing the head from the body, whether by slice or break, may or may not be painful, but the subject is concious. Not to mention hanging can be easy to screw up. A large bullet to the brain or explosion is painless. The tissue is destroyed faster than the nervious system can react. |
Yeah, I remember hearing that hanging is mostly science with a touch of art. Fall too short and they choke or fall too long/hard and they loose their head, knot in the wrong place and the neck doesn't break, etc. Unfortunately there are very few if any person who still has the knowledge. |
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I saw a movie once that had Tommy Lee Jones as a warden of a prison. A guy asked him about execution by electric chair, "Do you think, just for a tiny fraction of a second, when the electricity hits their brain that they feel it?" Tommy Lee Jones answered, "Oh, Lord, I sure hope so!" 
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I agree. Its going to be impossible to eliviate the stress involved with execution. I guess it's just one of the prices you have to pay for being a loser. That and I hear the burning in hell parts a real drag. 
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Others are right, these people are trying to stop the death penalty, and don't care about the method. There is no constitutional requirement that executions have to be free from pain, just not cruel or unusual. Is the old sentence of draw and quatering cruel or unusual? Probably, because it inflicts pain for the sake of inflicting pain. But the current method, lethal injection can not be considered cruel and unusual, because the only pain that is inflicted on the prisoner is the pain of an IV, which is often administrered in medical situations. A person who is getting a root canal suffers from more pain than that of a condemned prisoner going through lethal injection. I don't see how lethal injection could be considered cruel or unusual, so let's hope the Supreme Court decides this in a correct manner. |
| The POS animal that was supposed to be exterminated in the PRK beat his victim to death with a clawhammer. I think he should have the same done to him. BTW he has been on death row LONGER than his victim was ALIVE. I have no sympthy for animals like that. The deffinition of cruel and unusual is variable in my opinion. |
Not really, it would be suffocation, it takes a while. Personally I think they should be executed by what ever means they used on their victim. |
I'm always ready and willing to learn something new. 
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Not a Constitutional scholar, by any means, but in my reading it would have to be classified as both "cruel" AND "unusual". [Amdmt 8]"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."[Amdmt 8] [not Amdmt 8]"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishments inflicted."[not Amdmt 8] They mean two different things. If some people consider it "cruel," but it's the "standard" mode of execution, I don't really see the problem. |
I don't know if true, but I remember years ago reading an account fo a supposed execution of a British nobleman who was allowed to choose his execution method - and he chose to be drowned in port wine. 
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The head lives for 10-90 seconds after decapitation. It's not quite painless. But then again, given the posters in this thread have suggested the same horrific execution methodologies that were used by Sadaam Hussein, that shouldn't be an issue. |
