States consider reviving old-fashioned executions

[koalabear]

With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers.

http://news.msn.com/us/states-consider-reviving-old-fashioned-executions

 

[subdued_passion]

I think the gallows would still be the most cost effective method. Also quite humane (provided you get all your calculations correct for length of rope, height of drop), well as humane as executions can be.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I think the gallows would still be the most cost effective method. Also quite humane (provided you get all your calculations correct for length of rope, height of drop), well as humane as executions can be.

3/4 inch manila rope, pre-stretch it, and pre-soak in shellac, let dry.

Build your scaffold with an 8 1/2 foot fall.

Place the noose knot beneath the contestants left ear.

 

[dolf]

what's wrong with the stuff that vets use? all the animals I see die seem unstressed.

 

[Adre]

I wonder of Old Sparky is still in working order.

 

[Brollyanna]

what's wrong with the stuff that vets use? all the animals I see die seem unstressed.

I think the manufacturers of those drugs won't (or aren't allowed to) sell them for execution purposes.

 

[koalabear]

I think the gallows would still be the most cost effective method. Also quite humane (provided you get all your calculations correct for length of rope, height of drop), well as humane as executions can be.

One well placed shot to the base of the brain, cost 54 cents if they reload.

 

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[subdued_passion]

3/4 inch manila rope, pre-stretch it, and pre-soak in shellac, let dry.

Build your scaffold with an 8 1/2 foot fall.

Place the noose knot beneath the contestants left ear.

Don't you weigh your victims before you measure the rope?

I wonder of Old Sparky is still in working order.

Sparky had to be put down because the prison guards would keep hankering for crispy pork.

One well placed shot to the base of the brain, cost 54 cents if they reload.

Yes, but think of all the chemicals and labour involved in the clean up afterwards.

 

[ryan8558]

Yes, but think of all the chemicals and labour involved in the clean up afterwards.

prison labor doesn't even make minimum wage.

 

[miles]

One well placed shot to the base of the brain, cost 54 cents if they reload.

HAHA!!

 

[koalabear]

Yes, but think of all the chemicals and labour involved in the clean up afterwards.

No need to blow their head clear off.

 

[sufisaint]

good razor sharp sword and a good sized basket is all that is needed.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Don't you weigh your victims before you measure the rope?

3/4 inch is adequate; I use it to hoist steers for butchering.

 

[Aphro]

3/4 inch is adequate; I use it to hoist steers for butchering.

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[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/ruinchan/sherlock/tumblr_ll0sj1XiOU1qcdks7o1_500.gif

I'm handy with a knife, too.

In fact, if you wanna discourage muggers whittle a stick of wood if you have concerns about your safety. They will avoid you.

 

[ryan8558]

Tough, why should they?

They shouldn't as far as I'm concerned. SP made a statement about the clean up afterwards and I was just pointing out that prison labor is not expensive. And as far as chemicals are concerned they can use soap and water.

Cleanup shouldn't be expensive.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Beheadings and firing squads. Are you chuckleheads more enamored with the terrorists or North Korea?

 

[koalabear]

Beheadings and firing squads. Are you chuckleheads more enamored with the terrorists or North Korea?

We forgot death by dog!

 

[miles]

What about those nifty cyanide capsules that kill you in seconds? They worked in all those WW II movies.

 

[oggbashan]

3/4 inch is adequate; I use it to hoist steers for butchering.

But the length of the drop is critical. It has to be adjusted to the weight of the person to be executed.

Too short a drop and the criminal strangles.

Too long a drop and the head is taken off.

 

[Sean]

I think the manufacturers of those drugs won't (or aren't allowed to) sell them for execution purposes.

Most of the manufacturers are in Europe and we won't sell them to the US to murder people.

 

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[Sean]

Murder is a legal term.

O RLY?