You Can Always Rely On The U S To Do The Right Thing.........

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/oklahoma-to-use-nitrogen-gas-to-execute-death-row-inmates-11290217
..........after all other alternatives have been exhausted! For a nation that has capital punishment they sure are terrible at carrying it out.

[Cloverjo]

OMG. Chilling to say the least.

[ToraToraTora]

They must know the best method but point blank refuse to use it.

[Cloverjo]

Any way they do it would be horrific. At least an injection is relatively calm, still chilling though.

[Jackdaw33]

Hanging is the quickest and surest method but they weren't any good at that either. They should have taken lessons from British hangmen who could dispatch a prisoner in under 15 seconds.

[ToraToraTora]

yes JD the British drop hanging is a very efficient way. One thing that always puzzled me though is why, whenever it comes up, we go on about how quick they were to get it done. Why is it relevant that it takes less than a minute to get the prisoner out of the cell and hanged. Personally I'd rather take more time and avoid a mistake.

[Jackdaw33]

They had it off to a fine art. Everything was prepared the night before. it was only a few steps to the gallows next door. The more quickly it was done the less chance of the prisoner resisting.

[jno]

Hanging is efficient if it's done efficiently, like anything else; Google Goodale.

[ToraToraTora]

Canadian MP? another jno riddle?

[Jahulaye]

Interesting way of execution, some may say it’s too calm for prisoners who have committed the most heinous crimes but I’m not here to judge these hypothetical situations.

More about Inert gas asphyxiation and it’s step by step way of killing a human being here but it isn’t anything alarming or gory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation


The most funniest from your link ttt was this sentence

“Pharmaceutical companies have restricted the supply of their drugs because they believe they should be used to treat the sick, rather than kill convicts.”

What a load of rubbish, are we to believe that big pharma doesn’t sell its drugs to the highest bidder whatever the circumstances?

This has nothing to do with big Pharmas newly grown halo and morals and everything to do with the scare of big lawsuits against the fda filtering to big pharma for its drugs being used for executions after complaints by prisoners families and prisoner rights groups.


http://solitarywatch.com/2011/02/09/death-row-inmates-sue-the-fda-over-execution-drugs/

^Funny paragraph from that link

“
Along with several other states, including Arizona and Tennessee, California ended up ordering sodium thiopental made in Britain, through a West London pharmaceutical supplier that doubles as a driving school,“

I mean really?

[Jackdaw33]

Try Robert Goodale.

[Jahulaye]

“Hanging is efficient”

At killing yes, but as not efficient at causing no pain or leaving a horrible vision for those watching.

If the rope is too short then you have the executed kicking and struggling for enough time to leave a visual scar on those that are watching and prisoner rights groups and vulture lawyer will be rubbing their hands in glee from the wings.

If the rope’s too long then instead of a hanging we have a complete decapitation, once again I point at prisoner family support charities and lawyers.

[ludwig]

I don't understand why they don't shoot them.

[ToraToraTora]

that's why I said "British drop" jahulay, there are tables to ensure the correct drop for the weight of the prisoner. Yes ludders for a nation in love with guns a bullet through the head would seem an obvious choice.

[jim360]

Sadly all the really good ways of killing people are long-since abandoned. I think "death by bees" was well worth keeping, or scaphism, or just a good old-fashioned beheading with a blunt axe. Alas, no more.

[ToraToraTora]

I've been watching Vikings jim and they tend to favour the "blood eagle"!

[ludwig]

// a bullet through the head would seem an obvious choice.//

100% effective, and after first being put to sleep, more humane than all the ghastly and unreliable electrification and poisoning processes they seem to favour.

[Jahulaye]

This Robert Goodale I’m guessing ttt.

It would be a hi tech execution no doubt, weight, top and drop calculated by computers etc.. but there is still too many variables to make it the problem free go to execution procedure as just one mistake one time and you should know by now the ending with courts, prisoner families rights groups, vulture lawyers, changes in the law, public backlash and large payouts.

[emmie]

i confess that i found it hard to stomach reading through the pages,

[Jahulaye]

Forgot the Robert Goodale link which highlights what I’ve been saying to a t.

http://www.britishexecutions.co.uk/execution-content.php?key=1307&termRef=Robert%20Goodale

[jim360]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_methods_of_capital_punishment#Ancient_methods

Always read this if I need to work up an appetite.