The electric chair [Archive]

Ins0mniac

07-10-2003, 01:43 AM

WARNING: Kind of gross subject matter

Looking at several web sites it seems to me that electric chairs are quite possibly a form of torture or at the very least, a very gruesome way to kill someone.

A lot of doctors claim the victim can be alive for up to 30 seconds and feel being burned alive, suffocated and have a heart attack at the same time.

Of course, due to all the muscles tensing nobody could say or do anything if they were concious. But sometimes people survived initial attempts.

Apparently it was brought in as a more "humane" way than hanging. I'd rather a quick snap to the neck over electruction any day myself.

Given that some people are later found to be innocent and that there are better alternatives I wonder why the U.S still uses electric chairs in some states?

here (Contains gross descriptions) (http://www.geocities.com/trctl11/chair.html)

kré

07-10-2003, 02:28 AM

meh

if you don't wanna get fucked up by the chair, don't do anything that would send you to death row...seems almost too obvious to me :confused:

dozer

07-10-2003, 02:30 AM

hehe, if only it was that easy,

becuase only guilty people get the death penalty rite?

kré

07-10-2003, 02:35 AM

don't give me that shit, i have total faith in the world's justice systems...

dozer

07-10-2003, 02:38 AM

personally i think they should just cut out the waste of time courts and let the cops dish out the punishment they see fit

MisterBishi

07-10-2003, 02:50 AM

I'm just reserving this post space so I can edit in my opinions after I've found them on Geocities.

Ins0mniac

07-10-2003, 03:29 AM

Originally posted by cray
don't give me that shit, i have total faith in the world's justice systems...

See, doesn't the fact that often the jury is divided almost 50/50 give you a reason to pause and think?

And people that have been ruled guilty have later been found to be innocent.

At least if you get life in prison you can be acquitted later if found innocent. And the true guilty can spend the rest of their life rotting in jail.

utopian

07-10-2003, 03:40 AM

I heard that it tickles. Can anyone confirm/deny?

dwarfthrower

07-10-2003, 08:39 AM

Originally posted by dozer
becuase only guilty people get the death penalty rite?

Not guilty in one case is not neccessarily innocent.

What goes around comes around, karma and all that.

Yeah it tickles, I've copped 240v from time to time. Leaves you with a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

pleed

07-10-2003, 12:15 PM

The electric chair is nothing compared to the gas chamber. All states in USA use lethal injection now though.

In the gas chamber, there used to be a chair that was backing a pole. When the gas was released, the inmate used to convulse and start frothing at the mouth, his lungs would expand so large that it would fucking hurt and you shit out your insides (that's why they stick a cork in your arse.)

A lot of inmates used to start banging their head on the pole to try and kill themselves.

Colonel Kurtz

07-10-2003, 12:20 PM

Lethal Injection

They give you three shots, the first one knocks you out, the next two kill you.

Just like going to sleep.

Personally I'd rather be dropped out of a plane at a stupid height and freefall........

Grumblefish

07-10-2003, 12:57 PM

Originally posted by dwarfthrower
Not guilty in one case is not neccessarily innocent.

What goes around comes around, karma and all that.

I hadn't realise that they'd gotten karma down to an exact science.

tikdoph

07-10-2003, 01:29 PM

I'd rather go the Breaker Morant way.

In front of a firing squad, shouting "SHOOT STRAIGHT, YOU BASTARDS!"

Colonel Kurtz

07-10-2003, 01:44 PM

Originally posted by tikdoph
I'd rather go the Breaker Morant way.

In front of a firing squad, shouting "SHOOT STRAIGHT, YOU BASTARDS!"
He said that in the film

In reality he said "Dont make a mess of it lads"

dwarfthrower

07-10-2003, 01:45 PM

Originally posted by Grumblefish
I hadn't realise that they'd gotten karma down to an exact science.

Meh, near enough...

Grumblefish

07-10-2003, 02:00 PM

Originally posted by dwarfthrower
Meh, near enough...

That's a joke, right? Karma would have to be the biggest crock of shit I've ever heard of. I do plenty of mean things, and I don't get punished. Look at Stalin, he is going to be post-humously remembered forever, or at least a bloody long time, and he also got to enjoy plenty of fame and fortune.

Oh, wait, it must've been Beria that forced Stalin to do those nasty things he has been accused of, and therefore karma really did work! Stalin is innocent!

dwarfthrower

07-10-2003, 02:09 PM

Originally posted by Grumblefish
That's a joke, right?

Got it in one. Hell, if karma had any basis whatsoever I'd have been squashed by a bus and reincarnated as a dung beetle a long time ago.

Fuzzy Dice

07-10-2003, 02:15 PM

karma

n : (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation

Grumblefish

07-10-2003, 03:44 PM

Oh no, a dictionary definition! How about you read the post I responded to, and see his likening to the concept of what goes around, comes around.

DrDivad

09-10-2003, 05:23 PM

i copped 22KV from teh electric fence at work the other night, fark me dead my hand was numb for hours!

that mofo hurts!