Tennessee brings back the electric chair

[vegster]

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/10-brain-myths6.htm#page=6

Yuk ! Horrifying.

 

[Baldseagull]

The most humane method would be a massive dose of Heroin, it is not actually toxic, it just relaxes your brain to the point where it forgets to keep you breathing.
But given the death penalty is meant to be a deterrent, it is probably best able to do this by being an unpleasant way to end your days. I don't wish for the death penalty to return but I think some convicted killers of the sickest type, should be encouraged to find a piece of rope.

 

[symyjym]

How do you know that? Is there any evidence that someone shouted **** me that hurt! Just after?

I'm sure they try, but without having use of their lungs no sound would come out.

 

[AgerBomb22]

Spoken to my friends in Tennessee and pretty much all of them are against this.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Sadly you'll never see the death penalty in the UK again due to the 13th protocol European Human Acts Right which means you can hand out the death sentance. I say sadly as I do believe that there are some sick evil twisted beings out there who deserve it.

Reckon UKIP will ditch this too once we're out of Europe ....

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

i've always thought the guillotine was a pretty humane way to do the deed. it's probably just like the final scene in the sopranos....

Interestingly, the guillotine in not quite so instant as you might first imagine.
With the neck severed and the head in a basket you are still able to see and hear for approx 5 seconds until the lack of oxygen to the brain switches the lights out.

 

[jackanada]

Bolt gun. Smushed brain.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

It's Tennessee. If it went to referendum, drawing-and-quartering would win every time.

Proud citizen of Maine, where the death penalty was abolished in 1887. Since then, of course crime has run rampant here...

No, wait a minute, it hasn't.

Would that have anything to do with the fact Maine is the least ethnically diverse white state in the US?

 

[Triggaaar]

lets kill people to show that killings wrong...

What would we do with someone who locked someone in a cell for 5 years?

Those things can be planted by corrupt officers e.t.c.

Tricky to plant CCTV of someone murdering someone.

 

[martyn20]

What would we do with someone who locked someone in a cell for 5 years?

Tricky to plant CCTV of someone murdering someone.

Do you have 100% faith in our justice system? With the death penalty you have to be right every time, no errors at all, ever

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Not that many in this country I would have thought,

I believe that a referendum would produce a fairly close vote. Something around 60-40 against but could possibly be closer than this.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Like the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six? (an oldy but a goody)

...and not forgetting the Renault Five ( another oldy but goody )

 

[Questions]

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/10-brain-myths6.htm#page=6

Did anyone read this and then think of 'Carry on Dont Lose Your Head'


No ? Ok then.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Is this to do with Gove?

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Eyes rolling about the head, short sharp breaths before unconsciousness, sounds like it could be the ultimate final orgasm.

 

[User removed 4]

It's Tennessee. If it went to referendum, drawing-and-quartering would win every time.

Proud citizen of Maine, where the death penalty was abolished in 1887. Since then, of course crime has run rampant here...

No, wait a minute, it hasn't.

You've conveniently left out the socio-economic comparisons to other non death penalty , and indeed death penalty states.

 

[TheJasperCo]

For those pointing out it's ironic that state-sanctioned executions are used against convicted murderers, isn't that like saying prison is effectively state-sanctioned slavery? I think the death penalty is an appropriate consequence of barbaric crimes in my view.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Yep you would gradually fade away but not much faster than if you expelled your last breath and started the stopwatch.

No way, you're forgetting that everything has been severed - all the blood is pouring out of your head and probably a load of brain fluid. I'd imagine the trauma of being cut off from the rest of the nervous system would send you into instant shock and switch off the brain anyway.

 

[jackanada]

Eyes rolling about the head, short sharp breaths before unconsciousness, sounds like it could be the ultimate final orgasm.

La petite mort.

 

[jackanada]

isn't that like saying prison is effectively state-sanctioned slavery?

Racial profiling and the plea-bargaining system make it pretty close in the States. Though as the private prison companies are paid to take the inmates it's not just state sanctioned but state sponsored.