Posted on 05/05/2014 7:14:23 PM PDT by grundle
A quick, painless, gruesome way to carry out capital punishment
If I were governor of a state that executed prisoners I'd declare a moratorium for my entire tenure. I wish that the United States would stop imposing the death penalty. I nevertheless find myself nodding along to Sonny Bunch's case for reintroducing the guillotine, a response to the botched execution of a death-row inmate in Oklahoma.
He argues that America has made its executions bloodless to protect the sensibilities of those who support the death penalty, with less humane killings as a result. (The electric chair. The gas chamber. Lethal injections. All have had horrific problems.)
Bunch writes:
"The guillotine really seems to solve everyone’s problems: It was designed to deliver an efficient, quick, and painless death. It performs that task admirably. I understand the irony of a reactionary such as myself embracing the Terror’s preferred method of execution, but one must give credit where it’s due."
"If we’re going to do something—and a large number of Americans and American states are pretty committed to performing executions—we ought to do it right. And “right” in this case means a quick and painless death. I can’t really imagine any reasonable objections to a widespread adoption of the guillotine."
I can imagine one objection: that the guillotine is barbaric.
But to me, that's a point in its favor. Let's have no illusions about what we're doing when the state carries out the killing of captive prisoners. I imagine support for the death penalty would decline rather quickly once heads started rolling.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
OK, but in Ill-Annoy we have to get the death penalty back first.
I had one of those ;’)
It wasn't "botched", he is dead; it was successful.
The drunkard comes to the guillotine next. He also decides to die face up, hoping that he will be as fortunate as the priest. They raise the blade of the guillotine and release it. It comes speeding down and suddenly stops just inches from his neck. Again, the authorities take this as a sign of divine intervention, and they release the drunkard as well.
Next is the engineer. He, too, decides to die facing up. As they slowly raise the blade of the guillotine, the engineer suddenly says, "Hey, I see what your problem is ..."
I don’t see why a massive overdose of pure heroin is out of the question.
But the liberals don’t want efficient executions - then they’d have nothing to denounce as “barbaric”.
I’ve always favored doing executions during the Super bowl half time. Using the gillotine would be perfect. Line them up and do multiple executions like the hangings of old. Hold a national lottery for choosing executioners. Winner would also get to chose the background music.
Looks like all the shooters in your Firing Squad pic are using different guns! LOL.
Shotgun blast at the base of the skull upwards into the brainpan. Guaranteed instant death.
And in 1976, in UTAH!
Energy-efficient. Dems should love that. And, no heavy-metals cleanup issues.
Bring it to Capital Hill, park it right outside the Capital entrance one day, then over to the Senate Office building one day, then over to the House Office building......
:-)
“I bought a little plastic model guillotine, Revell, Aurora? ‘Chamber of Horrors’. Little guy, you could stand him up, slide him over to the blade, raise the blade, strike off his little head. Of course the real fun was sniffing that Testor’s glue and paint ...”
I had a friend with one of these, his mom did a GREAT job of painting it. Definitely not PC these days...it’s probably worth four figures built or unbuilt.
“Shoot straight you bastards, don’t make a mess of it.” - Breaker Morant
And the Phantom of the Opera, and Frankenstein’s monster too?
As the oldest, of course I scared my siblings at times but these things kept them out of my room!
There are better and more effective methods of capital punishment. If William Wallace can die in the following way, so can thugs in America. Walace was stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield. He was hanged, drawn and quartered — strangled by hanging, but released while he was still alive, emasculated, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts. His preserved head (dipped in tar) was placed on a pike.
Afraid I blew them up with fireworks, just before I discovered girls. ;^)
In a just world, yes. But there's that whole "cruel and unusual" thing in the way.
But of course!
I was also a big Charles Addams fan which I’m sure distressed my mom. My sense of humor was forever warped but I turned out otherwise alright (I think).
;’)
Interesting. I can hear him say “strite.”
However they did executions at time of the signing of the Constitution ought to still be valid today.
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