Firing Squad........

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32027751
Ok it's better than the other botched methods they use but why can't the septics just own up and admit they are totally inept at execution and get some experts in?

[Jackdaw33]

Hanging, as practised in Britain in the 20C was extremely swift and never botched. See my post @ 9.28.

[Peter Pedant]

There is a case of the head being pulled off
when they got the weight wrong isnt there ?

[Jackdaw33]

I think that was a 19C case. In any case the culprit would die instantly.

[RATTER15]

I really dont understand the "botched execution" bit, surely a massive overdose of any general anaesthetic would be guaranteed instant death, there must be many drugs already on the market that would kill instantly with a massive dose. What's the problem!!

I don't agree with capitol punishment I hasten to add!

[ToraToraTora]

Yes ratter but they have had problems with those drugs, at best not working at all and at worse inflicting a slow painful death. Leaving aside the standard capital punishment debate, if a state has the death penalty then they surely must have an efficient method. The Rope+drop as others have said above is the best way any state has found full stop.

[Peter Pedant]

ah the problems with lethal GAs are .. legion Ratter

Humourless lawyers have been reporting the hapless but helpful doctors doing it to their licensing boards ( stateside GMC sort of - full of more humourless doctors who strike them off )

More humourless lawyers brought a case in the der daah European court.
( surprisingly not mentioned here: http://theweek.com/articles/544051/freemarket-case-opposing-death-penalty )
The case adequately accounts for companies suddenly deciding not to sell thio to America

so medical techs put up the drips - usually somewhere else than a vein - and they arent paid to do that I can tell you ! - in prisoners who may have no veins as they have been drug users

and the three drug cocktail - midaz / pav / potassium isnt something I would want used on me...

other than that..... yeah the system works quite well.
[Clayton doo-dah took 120 mins to die]

[Peter Pedant]

Altho none of the American sites admit there has been litigation this side of the Atlantic,
there has

and here is a bit of it

http://www.reprieve.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2010_11_22_Zagorski_Gov_Skeleton_Arguments.pdf

[retrocop]

Madame Guillotine was pretty quick,efficient and terminal!

[andy-hughes]

Peter Pedant - //There is a case of the head being pulled off
when they got the weight wrong isnt there ? //

There were numerous cases where the length of the rope was miscalculated and either the victim slowly strangled if the rope was too short, or was decapitated if it was too long.

From that grew the 'table' or lengths calculated on the height and weight of the victim.

It was said that by the end of his career Albert Pierrpoint could calculate the rope length by a glance through the spyhole of the condemned cell, and a quick sight of the prisoner.

Pierrpoint also perfected the use of a bolt through which the rope passed, which, when placed correctly under the jaw would cause the vertebrae to snap instantaneously causing instant death.

[ichkeria]

With the title and the picture of Mr Farrago I thought this was about UKIP setting up a special committee to deal with the sacking of their prospective candidates
State sponsored murder is a bad idea anyway ...

[-Talbot-]

Talbot - //Is there a 'non' cruel method of execution?.


Swiss clinic? //

Are you talking about voluntary euthanasia?

That's hardly relevent to the discussion is it?


Perfectly reasonable, if Swiss clinics can put people to sleep without too much fuss why can't this method be used on criminals?

Mikey asking TTT to change is avatar ...That's hardly relevent to the discussion i

[ToraToraTora]

quite Talbot but it does induce the unusual event of mikey asking for a picture of TGL!

[mikey4444]

LOL TTT !

[Pete65]

Roland Freisler was not hanged.
He was killed in an American air raid on Berlin in February 1945.
He was in the Peoples Court in Berlin when it was hit by bombs.
He is buried in Berlin but was so detested, his name was not put on the headstone.