Because the US's enemies did it. Obviously it's more noble to torture people to death.
Generally speaking we've preferred to use it for enemy soldiers with other forms of execution for civilians. It's why it's important that the nazis were hanged and not shot. Fun fact about us hanging nazis was the executioner probably intentionally made the trap door too small so that the nazi scum would bash their faces on the way down.
I wonder if it might be harder on the executioner or something. I'd rather get shot I guess also but if the bullet misses the heart you die slowly from blood loss there's really no good option
Utah had gun executions they maybe still do with 5 shooters and a random one has blanks with a target on the person's heart. They didn't all die quick is all I'm saying
IIRC a lot of the agents used in lethal injections are imported from Europe, who view America's continued usage of the death penalty to be completely barbaric and uncivilised. They've been steadily cutting America's supply of these drugs off, which has resulted in the strange toxic cocktail mixtures used in some recent executions. I reckon this is in response to their ongoing shortages of lethal drugs.
This is exactly the reason, and worse still, the reasons most supplying countries give aren't even an opposition to the death penalty, it's because the US seems to love putting children and mentally disabled people to death.
That was disturbing. I am by no means religious, but there is something especially perverse to me about using a Bible or any sort of religious book to ensure that a child could be 'properly' executed.
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also, Firing Squad is an objectively better way of getting executed than any other way so I approve of it being an option at the least
yep having 30 bullets hit my head simultaneously sounds like a solid way to do it
Yeah, but I doubt there the military/militia style. Its probably the boring, four shooters and only one of them has a live round and they have to aim at the target pinned to the prisoner's chest, type.
You're going to be executed. Do you:
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Want to be gunned down by like 10 guys with 30.06 rifles basically ensuring instant death the second the volley hits you?
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Want to be strapped to a chair like an animal and given a mockery of a medical procedure where a poison is injected into you that will kill you in an extremely slow and painful manner?
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Get strapped to a chair again but this time they just jam electricity into you until you eventually cook to death?
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/botched-executions biased source i know but this says that 7% of the 1000+ lethal injections were botched
Getting shot has less of a chance of whatever idiot intern fucking up the mixture
10 guys with 30.06 aiming at your chest? You're going into shock instantly
Going to not be laughing when they decide to torture you by just giving you the standard chemical mix and you drown in your own saliva while you're paralyzed while you're having a heart attack or something.
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For real though, a chamber of helium gas sounds almost peaceful. Which probably means only mustard gas will be authorised.
United States denies accusations of antisemitism. "It was just the most proven and efficient way to do it."
When I think of death by helium gas, the word that comes to my mind is "hilarious" rather than peaceful.
The electric chair is one of the most inhumane things ever created. The George Stinney execution is one of the most haunting things I ever read about and rage inducing.
I'd never heard of Stinney before and I looked it up.
I've never felt more disgusted in my life. But then again, that's America for ya. Execute a 14 year old boy on no evidence whatsoever.
And of course people will just say "Well the cops say he confessed" as if that's a fucking bit of proof. And again this was like... 80 years ago. His mother died in 1989. This is fucking close to living memory for some people.
Edit: I wrote this post before I finished the wikipedia article and I swear I nearly popped a fucking blood vessel when I read this
Mullen confined her judgment to the process of the prosecution, noting that Stinney "may well have committed this crime." With reference to the legal process, Mullen wrote, "No one can justify a 14-year-old child charged, tried, convicted and executed in some 80 days," concluding that, "In essence, not much was done for this child when his life lay in the balance."
The fucking mistake wasn't executing a child who had no connection to a crime, it was that the process was sketchy. Fuck me.
First time I ever read about that case was when I was in high school and it sent chills down my spine and just horrified me to such an extent. That was over 10 years ago, and ever since, I get angry any time I think about it.
And of course people will just say “Well the cops say he confessed” as if that’s a fucking bit of proof.
The people that say this never want to talk about how police interrogations are literally mental torture. The lie detector/Polygraph test is an arcane pseudoscience machine that really can't determine anything, other than torturing someone. Cops get confessions by spending 10-12 hours at a time intimidating people and playing mind games with them to make them have mental breakdowns.
The fucking mistake wasn’t executing a child who had no connection to a crime, it was that the process was sketchy. Fuck me.
That's liberalism for you. All about the process and the system that they worry about. They offer band aid solutions to fix things in the system. Nothing about the actual victims and people who suffer, not even a child like him.
The George Stinney execution
Never hard about this before, just looked it up.
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Cool cool cool, so now when people get the wall it will be nice and legal
Why do they need so many options? If you think the death penalty is moral, (which I, to be honest, dont), just pick whatever obliterated the brain fastest and most effectively, and stick with it.
The electric chair and lethal injections is just vain attempts to make the death LOOK as inoffensive as possible, while it remains painful, fucked up, and needlessly cruel. Death is terrible and messy and disgusting no matter how you try to dress it up, so just go ahead and explode people's heads. It's fast, and it doesn't let people pretend they haven't just killed somebody.
Also, if you're gonna have the death penalty, make sure that every prosecutor who is found to have sent an innocent person to their death gets the same death. Can't afford to let people fuck around and be sloppy with that shit.
