An interesting hypothetical

Vincent M · Post by **Vincent M** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:13 pm

My friend walked up to me today and asked me if ( hypothetically) I got sentenced to death by the state and had the option to choose my method of execution which would I choose.

I know this sounds morbid and quite frankly it is but if you had to choose which would it be.

I have listed a website with the five most common methods of execution

http://www.internationaljusticeproject. ... ethods.cfm

*THIS IS NOT A THREAD TO ARGUE WHETHER OR NOT CAPITOL PUNISHMENT IS JUST*

vtmarik · Post by **vtmarik** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:15 pm

Honestly, I'd choose firing squad. I like a decent crescendo.

XenHu · Post by **XenHu** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:19 pm

The only way I'll die is when my idea dies...

How and where/when my idea dies, I cannot answer...

-X

Anarkistsdream · Post by **Anarkistsdream** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:19 pm

Yes, but a firing squad could actually hit you with the one bullet and you would not die, so they would have to reload and fire again... I choose lethal injection... You go to sleep and never wake up.

Although, my main goal is to die without ever realizing what is about to happen.

heavycola · Post by **heavycola** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:19 pm

I would lie on my back and get them to drop an enormous rock on me from a crane. I believe this is still legal in texas.

Vincent M · Post by **Vincent M** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:20 pm

heavycola wrote:I would lie on my back and get them to drop an enormous rock on me from a crane. I believe this is still legal in texas.

LOL

Puff · Post by **Puff** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:20 pm

Injection. The faster and less pain there is the better.

Though I never want to die if I had to be executed that is what I would pick.

Vincent M · Post by **Vincent M** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:21 pm

Anarkistsdream wrote:Yes, but a firing squad could actually hit you with the one bullet and you would not die, so they would have to reload and fire again... I choose lethal injection... You go to sleep and never wake up.

Although, my main goal is to die without ever realizing what is about to happen.

I know medically tho that you feel like your insides burn up and that doesn't sound good

RenegadePaddy · Post by **RenegadePaddy** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:27 pm

Anarkistsdream wrote:Yes, but a firing squad could actually hit you with the one bullet and you would not die, so they would have to reload and fire again... I choose lethal injection... You go to sleep and never wake up.

Although, my main goal is to die without ever realizing what is about to happen.

The officer commanding a firing squad has a loaded pistol incase of this, and is required to put one point blank through the heart of any survivor - assuming you use the western method of firing squad

Vincent M · Post by **Vincent M** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:52 pm

RenegadePaddy wrote:
Anarkistsdream wrote:Yes, but a firing squad could actually hit you with the one bullet and you would not die, so they would have to reload and fire again... I choose lethal injection... You go to sleep and never wake up.

Although, my main goal is to die without ever realizing what is about to happen.

The officer commanding a firing squad has a loaded pistol incase of this, and is required to put one point blank through the heart of any survivor - assuming you use the western method of firing squad

Interesting.......

RenegadePaddy · Post by **RenegadePaddy** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:01 pm

I should qualify that by saying is for a militay firing squad.

I'm not sure if theres a difference for a civilian execution, or if the military would be called in to perform (who makes up the firing squad if not soldiers?). There was a guy in the states who chose the method just to be awkward not too long ago, will have a look.

RenegadePaddy · Post by **RenegadePaddy** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:03 pm

According to Executions in the U.S. 1608-1987 by M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smylka, it is estimated that 142 men have been judicially shot in the United States and English-speaking predecessor territories since 1608, excluding executions related to the American Civil War. The Civil War saw several hundred firing squad deaths, but reliable numbers are not available. Crimes punishable by firing squad in the Civil War included desertion, intentionally killing a superior officer or fellow soldier, and being a spy.

Capital punishment was suspended in the United States between 1967 and 1976 as a result of several decisions of the United States Supreme Court. The process resumed with the execution of Gary Gilmore on January 17, 1977, at Utah State Prison in Draper. The five executioners were equipped with .30-30 caliber rifles and off-the-shelf Winchester 150 grain SilverTip ammunition. The subject was restrained and hooded. The shots were fired at a distance of 20 feet (6 m), aiming at the chest. In his autobiography Shot in the Heart, Mikal Gilmore wrote that when he examined the shirt worn by his brother Gary during the execution, he found five bullet holes, indicating that all members of the squad had been armed with live cartridges and none with a blank round.

The only other post-Furman execution by firing squad (that of John Albert Taylor in 1996) also took place in Utah. Taylor is said to have chosen the firing squad because it would be awkward for state officials.

In Utah, the firing squad (a five-man team) consisted of volunteer police officers from the county in which the conviction of the offender took place. A law passed on March 15, 2004 banned execution by firing squad in Utah, but since that specific law was not retroactive, four inmates on Utah's death row could still have their last requests granted. As of 2006, Idaho and Oklahoma are the only other states in which execution by firing squad is legally available (as backup methods only; both states use lethal injection as their primary methods of execution).

From wikipedia

Kahless · Post by **Kahless** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:10 pm

I'd pick death by bombing, to also get all the bloodthirsty leeches that came to witness my execution :lol:

Vincent M · Post by **Vincent M** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:10 pm

RenegadePaddy wrote:Capital punishment was suspended in the United States between 1967 and 1976 as a result of several decisions of the United States Supreme Court.

I wonder what happened in that time period to stop it and also what co mensed it again :-k

static_ice · Post by **static_ice** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:13 pm

"Will they give me the chair
Or lethal injection
Or swing from a rope if you dare"
~My Chemical Romance

the problem with the rope is if they do it right then your neck snaps and you die instantly but if they do it wrong your neck doesn't snap and you die slowly from choking :shock:

If I were guaranteed they would do it right I would go with hanging it sounds cool and I would make sure that they don't put a bag on my head so they can see my eyes bulge out...

RenegadePaddy · Post by **RenegadePaddy** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:14 pm

static_ice wrote:"Will they give me the chair
Or lethal injection
Or swing from a rope if you dare"
~My Chemical Romance

the problem with the rope is if they do it right then your neck snaps and you die instantly but if they do it wrong your neck doesn't snap and you die slowly from choking If I were guaranteed they would do it right I would go with hanging it sounds cool and I would make sure that they don't put a bag on my head so they can see my eyes bulge out...

Or they get the drop too long and your head comes off....

Vincent M · Post by **Vincent M** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:15 pm

static_ice wrote:"Will they give me the chair
Or lethal injection
Or swing from a rope if you dare"
~My Chemical Romance

the problem with the rope is if they do it right then your neck snaps and you die instantly but if they do it wrong your neck doesn't snap and you die slowly from choking If I were guaranteed they would do it right I would go with hanging it sounds cool and I would make sure that they don't put a bag on my head so they can see my eyes bulge out...

static_ice · Post by **static_ice** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:26 pm

RenegadePaddy wrote:
static_ice wrote:"Will they give me the chair
Or lethal injection
Or swing from a rope if you dare"
~My Chemical Romance

the problem with the rope is if they do it right then your neck snaps and you die instantly but if they do it wrong your neck doesn't snap and you die slowly from choking If I were guaranteed they would do it right I would go with hanging it sounds cool and I would make sure that they don't put a bag on my head so they can see my eyes bulge out...

Or they get the drop too long and your head comes off....

another salivating possibility...

Vincent M · Post by **Vincent M** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:50 pm

I think people are thinking lethal injection is where you just go asleep and I know that isn't the case

RenegadePaddy · Post by **RenegadePaddy** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:54 pm

Heh, true - then again, when it was frst invented the electric chair was touted as being a humane form of execution! :shock:

If you could choose anything, either CO2 poisoning (sleepy time) for a peaceful exit, or if you're a prankster, climb out of a tall building, wait for a crowd of morbid sods to gather to watch you jump, then do so.... with a grenade in your mouth *boom* *splat* Shower the grisly bastards with your entrails, go out laughing!

Anarkistsdream · Post by **Anarkistsdream** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:54 pm

Hey Paddy!

It was Oklahoma that had the firing squad kill the guy... Err, guy chose the firing squad...

He changed his mind at the last second, though... He was doing it on 'moral grounds'

Timothy McVey was gonna do the same thing, and for some reason the judge refused his request.

static_ice · Post by **static_ice** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:55 pm

yes lethal hurts much more than you think (but then again, how would we know? :lol:

)

actually I just thought of the ultimate combination: Novacaine (sp?) and ANYTHING! just numb yourself and nothing would hurt: the chair, the rope, a giant boulder, lethal injection...

static_ice · Post by **static_ice** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:56 pm

oh yeah lethal gas...

it wouldn't hurt but it would be "uncomfortable" to say the least

Puff · Post by **Puff** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:57 pm

Vincent M wrote:I think people are thinking lethal injection is where you just go asleep and I know that isn't the case

why have you survived it? :shock:

Anarkistsdream · Post by **Anarkistsdream** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:57 pm

static_ice wrote:oh yeah lethal gas...

it wouldn't hurt but it would be "uncomfortable" to say the least

Any sort of asphixiation would suck...

An interesting hypothetical

What method of execution would you pick?

An interesting hypothetical