Posted on 08/28/2018 9:45:12 AM PDT by NRx
A collection of historic photographs and images related to execution by guillotine [CAUTION: Some images are graphic.]
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Suppose to be “understand why.”
Gruesome, just thinking about this gives me goose bumps and makes the hair on my back stand out. I give credit to the French. They have a certain panache for this sort of thing.
Back in frontier Texas, we either hung’em of shot’em. All we needed was handy - a rope or gun, a shovel, and an alibi. Then along came electricity and you know the rest of the story.
Oh the inhumanity. Wouldn’t want the perps to experience any discomfort now would we?
/s for those in Rio Linda
The brain may still be technically “alive” but you would not be conscious. The massive and immediate loss of blood would cause the subject to loose consciousness within not much more than 3 seconds. Actual brain death would result within 15-30 seconds.
There are documented cases of scientists addressing the beheaded victim’s head, and the head opens it’s eyes and looks at them, up to 2 or 3 minutes after.
That would be freaky for everyone involved.
Those are just the muscle spasms that sometimes occur with the bodies of the newly deceased. The subject of mechanical decapitation would loose consciousness within the first few seconds due to the massive loss of blood and actual brain death would occur with 15-30 seconds. I regard this as infinitely preferable to a method of execution that routinely takes 10-15 minutes and has on occasion taken over an hour.
After all of that, they still were able to vote Democrat.
He’ll never be the head of a major corporation
That’ll do, Austin.
A French doctor who tried to study whether one was conscious after beheading, recorded one case in which he called out the criminal’s name three times. The first two times the criminal (his head) opened his eyes and looked at him. The third time, he didn’t.
Ann Boleyn, Charles I, etc., were reported to have tried to speak after beheading. Charlotte Corday (who murdered Murat) looked at someone who struck her face while holding up her head.
French victims were sometimes asked to blink after beheading; and many did.
I would think pumping carbon monoxide or some other gas would be the painless way. Always heard that car exhaust was a painless way to go. You just go to sleep and never wake up. That’s why people use it to commit suicide.
Okay.
Back during the French revolution a doctor studied just that, and found that the severed head was conscious for several seconds after beheading.
That is a terrifying thought.
A shot of Propofol knocks you out in 10 seconds and then a drug could be administer to stop the heart. Much more humane and less messy.
That coffee shop that shows up on some executions must make a killing on execution day.
Heads, you lose!
Expect this during “The Reset” and afterward.
The Chinese PLA in the field use execution vans.
And our gov’t already have a medical code for guillotine executions...
https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/EIndex/B/Beheading
2018 ICD-10-CM External Causes Index › ‘B’ Terms ›
Beheading (by guillotine)
homicide X99.9
legal execution - see Legal, intervention
I don’t believe for 15 seconds the head is still alive. I think more like 3 or 4 seconds of rapidly dissapaiting consciousness.
I remember when I lost flow of oxygen to my brain it only took a moment or two before I dropped like a sack of potatoes and lights out.. This happened during a cardiac stress test when I went into Vtac.
Back on topic. I would rather face a firing squad while standing up un blindfolded with the proverbial last cigarette hanging from my mouth.
Do they make a Congressional model?
There was a conspiracy theory a few years back about the USGOV wanting to buy 300 or 500 guillotines, and the proof was a RFP or RFQ or whatever from the USGOV seeking tenders to build them.
It was said it was because Guillotines can kill mass amounts of people without using bullets, electricity, or gasoline.
A brain is not going to be conscious with zero blood pressure.
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