"By executing Brad Sigmon, South Carolina has also executed the possibility of redemption," said one critic. "Our state is declaring that no matter what you do to make up for your wrongdoing, we reserve the right to kill you."
People are downvoting you, seemingly not getting that you’re saying the deaths should be visceral not for the sake of spectacle, but so that people see and must confront how violent it really is and are thus hopefully repulsed by the practice… but you are also correct from the standpoint of minimizing the pain experienced by the person condemned to death.
This guy was dead 3 minutes after being shot.
A proper hanging that breaks the neck and does not kill you via strangulation kills you in under a minute, and its a far more simple procedure to calculate a proper drop height for a person than it is to administer lethal injection or electric shock in a way that actually minimizes suffering.
A guillotine is another very rapid and relatively painless way to die.
… Lethal injections are often poorly administered by unqualified idiots, and the cocktails they use often don’t render you unconscious… meaning you can be strapped in, physically paralyzed from one part of the cocktail, in excruciating pain for hours, but unable to express the pain.
The electric chair is also a horrifically painful way to die, it still to this day often requires multiple shocks to fully kill someone, over a long duration of time.
In practice, the whole point is to draw it out, to maximize fear and suffering, it’s not a bug. I’m surprised they actually allowed the firing squad to go forward.
I think they should all be firing squad or hanging. Make them violent again. So people take notice of them.
People are downvoting you, seemingly not getting that you’re saying the deaths should be visceral not for the sake of spectacle, but so that people see and must confront how violent it really is and are thus hopefully repulsed by the practice… but you are also correct from the standpoint of minimizing the pain experienced by the person condemned to death.
This guy was dead 3 minutes after being shot.
A proper hanging that breaks the neck and does not kill you via strangulation kills you in under a minute, and its a far more simple procedure to calculate a proper drop height for a person than it is to administer lethal injection or electric shock in a way that actually minimizes suffering.
A guillotine is another very rapid and relatively painless way to die.
… Lethal injections are often poorly administered by unqualified idiots, and the cocktails they use often don’t render you unconscious… meaning you can be strapped in, physically paralyzed from one part of the cocktail, in excruciating pain for hours, but unable to express the pain.
The electric chair is also a horrifically painful way to die, it still to this day often requires multiple shocks to fully kill someone, over a long duration of time.
In practice, the whole point is to draw it out, to maximize fear and suffering, it’s not a bug. I’m surprised they actually allowed the firing squad to go forward.