Tennessee brings back the electric chair

[Wrong-Direction]

So the corrupt cops would be hung 30 years after the innocent men were hung they lied about? How does that help the dead innocent men?

Revenge is better then justice.

 

[martyn20]

Revenge is better then justice.

WTF?

 

[Wrong-Direction]

WTF?

Haha nah I agree with you, just felt like starting a debate!

 

[John Bumlick]

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....

 

[Wrong-Direction]

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....

Yeah over before you even knew it begun! Blackout

 

[Brian Fantana]

"As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively."

 

[vegster]

I think this is very much a backward step, surely America's executions should be a microcosm of their current developments, bring back the gas chamber, but use, cheap and easily accessible Shale Gas ?

 

[Husty]

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....

You would be aware that your head was no longer attached to your body for at least a couple of seconds before you went, not sure I'd enjoy it.

 

[Husty]

Revenge is better then justice.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

You would be aware that your head was no longer attached to your body for at least a couple of seconds before you went, not sure I'd enjoy it.

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

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

I'd bring it back but its very hard to police it. Who deserves the death penalty? Is that person 100% without a doubt guilty of the crime?

 

[RexCathedra]

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.

 

[Husty]

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

No but plenty of evidence of eye movements and jaw contractions up to minutes after severing.

 

[symyjym]

You would be aware that your head was no longer attached to your body for at least a couple of seconds before you went, not sure I'd enjoy it.

More than a couple of seconds though, you only die when your brain runs out of oxygen. You are probably aware of what has happened for a minute or two.

 

[vegster]

I'd bring it back but its very hard to police it. Who deserves the death penalty? Is that person 100% without a doubt guilty of the crime?

And therein lies the dilemma. Better to sentence to life in prison rather than kill.

 

[Husty]

No but plenty of evidence of eye movements and jaw contractions up to minutes after severing.

To elaborate, you'd lose consciousness very quickly due to a substantial, rapid fall in blood pressure but you would have some form of conscious awareness for 1-2 seconds after the event. Unpleasant.

 

[Husty]

More than a couple of seconds though, you only die when your brain runs out of oxygen. You are probably aware of what has happened for a minute or two.

You'd lose consciousness long before your brain actually died though.

 

[TottonSeagull]

More than a couple of seconds though, you only die when your brain runs out of oxygen. You are probably aware of what has happened for a minute or two.

So you think that when your head is severed you are aware of it for a minute or two? What absolute twaddle! Death is instantaneous !!

 

[The Large One]

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

 

[symyjym]

You'd lose consciousness long before your brain actually died though.

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