Why Do The U S Insist On Using Drawn-Out Execution Methods Instead Of Shooting Or Hanging?

[douglas9401]

Do they imagine themselves technologically benificent dressing it up as science?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alabama-nitrogen-hypoxia-nearly-ready-untried-execution-method/

[ToraToraTora]

jno: "Hanging was what lynch parties did." - no they did strangulation by rope. Proper hanging breaks the neck with a drop, the person does not choke to death.

[jno]

they're both hanging, TTT - "hang" bears its usual meaning. Even before the introduction of drops, the formulation I think was hanged by the neck until dead. If you had good friends, they'd pull your legs to hasten the process. (The old one of hung drawn and quartered meant only being half-hung before being hauled off to meet your death elsewhere.) Drops are comparatively new.

[ToraToraTora]

jno: "they're both hanging, TTT " - well they are both suspending a person with a rop round the neck but entirely different. Hanging as perfected by the Britch hangmen was designed to be as quick and painless as possible and it was and still is the best way to execute someone. The drop was precisely calculated using weight tables devised by William Marwood 1872.
https://vileeight.co.uk/products/1888-table-of-drops

[ToraToraTora]

aaarrgghhh *British!

[THECORBYLOON]

The heights in the tables were later reduced by about a fifth to reduce the risk of decapitation.

[Untitled]

it sounds lovely

[Canary42]

TTT is quite correct. And that is why a special knot is needed to snap the spine at the neck in a single jerk as the rope tautens.

[youngmafbog]

// designed to be as quick and painless as possible //

Far more than these scum afforded their victims.

There should be no last meals or requests. Did their victims get them?

[ToraToraTora]

canary: "TTT is quite correct." - NURSE! I'm hallucinating!

[douglas9401]

Your usual resting state then. ;-)

[sandyRoe]

If it's to be done it's best done quickly.
Firing squads seem the obvious choice. Some American states, being what they are, might offer places in the firing party to the highest bidder. I'm sure there'd be no shortage of volunteers.

[jno]

South Carolina have recently opted for firing squads, because they couldn't get the drugs.

[david small]

Drop hanging has been known to decapitate the victim.