He chose this method? Are people THAT scared of needles that they’d prefer getting shot?
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I don't think you understand how unreliable the other execution methods are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOn3wba8c-Y
Getting shot in the heart/head is pretty fast.
It's the shit chemicals being injected that don't kill you for an hour that scares people.
Potassium kills pretty fast
Rank Of Preferences of what I would most prefer to do after reading this, starting with most preferred!
- be shot by a firing squad
- die by lethal injection
- visit south carolina
Barbaric idiots.
Death penalties don't help to fight crime, as has been proven over and over again.
I've had several surgeries in my life that required a general anesthetic. There is no excuse or justification, other than sadism, for suffering here. Shouldn't have the death penalty in the first place.
Except for the fact they let him choose his method of executions. I mean, being against the death penalty in general is one thing, but the sentence was passed out and the convict chose that method.
Choose between three painful methods.
Of those firing squad probably least to be honest. The lethal injection and electric chair are just too slow and unreliable.
They shoot in the heart instead of in the head so ymmv
The sudden loss of blood pressure would make it pretty quick I think
Would that also cut off the pain from the spine?
There is no ethical, or painless, way to kill someone who doesn't want to die.
Giving them an overdose of opioids and then electrocuting them would be less painful.
I fould prefer this over drowning in lung fluid, or being slowly electrocuted also.
Heck, execution is preferable to how the average person lives their lives.
I remember seeing some war footage or something of a guy being executed from a meter away by a truck mounted .50 caliper gun. His head just disappeared. After my initial, holy shit! why did I just watch that, I thought, I can't think of a better way to go. Minus the buildup.
personally I don't believe in an afterlife. I do believe that once your organs cease to function your brains gets a cocktail boost that sets you into a fast dreamlike state. think of it like a naturally induced coma that you might never wake up from.
in this state is when you have your "afterlife". I believe it's an evolved trait that allows the brain to survive as long as possible after a traumatic death.
In my perspective, shooting a person in the head is just about the worst thing you can do because it robs them of those final moments where they could possibly live out an entire lifetime.
I would much rather die naturally, but will gladly take a slow painful death that will guarantee me my final moments instead of a "blip you're dead forever" moment.
I agree with this. It may even be a mechanism to send you off to the next realm or something.
You're entitled to your own personal beliefs, but you should know that your belief is inconsistent with the current scientific understanding of biology and consciousness.
No one currently understands consciousness.
What do you suppose is the case then?
The human brain is a biological machine comprised of a very large number of simple components that follow the laws of physics. Some combinations of those components interacting in a certain way results in what we consider to be consciousness, but it’s still just a chemical reaction based on purely physical processes. When a brain’s components stop interacting in that way, its consciousness ceases to exist.
I'd like to think there's more to it. I don't have a faith or religion but I have stuck with the idea that this can't be it. Or if it is....oh well.
I believe that as soon as you are dead, your consciousness ends until the next time it is back. And since over an infinite amount of time, anything is inevitable. I am very afraid to die, because I'm afraid I won't stay dead. But yeah, I don't see why they waste chemicals, or electricity when bullets are cheap and humane.
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