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i_agree_with_nick
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Report Foinavon • July 24, 2014 2:55 PM BST
Why don't they just string em up?
Simple solutions are the best.
Report Slicer • July 24, 2014 3:01 PM BST
The daughter of one of those murdered by the culprit said she didn't think it was barbaric and that he deserved to suffer. It is difficult for me to argue with that.

As an expert in forensics I can tell you that they were using experimental drugs because the American and European manufacturers of the drug of choice, Thiopentone, refuse to supply it for the purpose of execution! It is not easy to both this up. I could of sent him over in a couple of minutes!

I hope this enhances your knowledge of execution techniques!
Report ebulGery • July 24, 2014 3:20 PM BST
The sentence was death, not to be tortured to death

I find it ironic that a society that claims to be civilised and condemns other societies because they are backward
thinks torturing someone to death is ok, not with me

it degrades us, it takes us down to the perpetrators level

in this respect the US has the poorest values of any other society on earth
Report Burton-Brewers • July 24, 2014 3:20 PM BST
a bath and a toaster would have sufficed
Report Slicer • July 24, 2014 3:24 PM BST
I am sure it doesn't degrade us the way the murderer degraded his victims! And if you have watched any of the US prison programmes on the television, you would realise that some of the things these murderers do to their victims means they deserve a fate worse than death.
Report Slicer • July 24, 2014 3:24 PM BST
BB- you been watching Columbo again!
Report i_agree_with_nick • July 24, 2014 3:27 PM BST
I was invited to a WI do once. Now that was a fete worse than death!
Report Slicer • July 24, 2014 3:30 PM BST
I once spent 12 hours on a flight from Delhi to Heathrow sitting next to someone who had just eaten garlic and onions. There was NO fate worse than breath!
Report i_agree_with_nick • July 24, 2014 3:32 PM BST
Yes - the worst fate bar naan
Report Burton-Brewers • July 24, 2014 3:33 PM BST
no doctor my dad always tried to get me to have breakfast in the bath, took me years to work out what he was up to
Report Slicer • July 24, 2014 3:39 PM BST
Nice one nick!

BB-at least that was better than having an MP named on that missing list trying to get you to have breakfast in the bath. We would certainly know what he was up to!
Report i_agree_with_nick • July 24, 2014 3:41 PM BST
I once spent 12 hours on a flight from Delhi to Heathrow sitting next to someone who had just eaten garlic and onions. There was NO fate worse than breath!

In First Class ?
Report Burton-Brewers • July 24, 2014 3:41 PM BST
surely Cyril could only manage a shower Dr?
Report Slicer • July 24, 2014 3:43 PM BST
No Nick, in those days I could only afford business class. It was on BA!
Report Slicer • July 24, 2014 3:44 PM BST
BB- if the incentive was there, my guess is that Cyril would of tried!
Report ebulGery • July 24, 2014 3:46 PM BST
Whatever someone has done I do not think it justifies torturing someone to death

I rather thought humanity had moved on from that one, sadly it appears we have not
We are as nasty and brutal as we ever were, we always will be, we cannot change ourselves.
This confirms that belief.
Report i_agree_with_nick • July 24, 2014 3:48 PM BST
EG - the thread title is "Botched Execution".

There was no intention to torture him
Report Stevie Strikes • July 24, 2014 4:14 PM BST
Wouldn't the most "humane" method be to completely sever the spinal chord between the 2nd and third verabrae?  You'd just stop breathing and it would be over in a couple of minutes.  Surely you could do this by firing a blade in from behind, without the uncertainty of hanging or the mess of guillotining.
Report Tommy Toes • July 24, 2014 4:15 PM BST
You've been falling out with those parking wardens again, haven't you Stevie?
Report brendanuk1 • July 24, 2014 6:27 PM BST
Guilotine hasnt been bettered.

Funny how they dont give them a dose of morphine or something before. Reckon they are not too displeased that they have inadvertently tortured them. How hard is it to administer a faal dose of something Confused
Report brendanuk1 • July 24, 2014 6:28 PM BST
*fatal
Report sideshowbob • July 24, 2014 6:38 PM BST
they should put em in the cube. no, not the itv thing with philip schofield. the movie, the cube. where theyre all erm...in a cube. an that.
Report ebulGery • July 24, 2014 7:18 PM BST
i_agree_with_nick  • July 24, 2014 3:48 PM BST
EG - the thread title is "Botched Execution".
There was no intention to torture him


If it took 2 hours to kill him...I regard that as torture
and why this punishment at all...like the electric chair

Why not just hang him or shoot him, most other countries use this
Why the need to increase the time of carrying our the sentence... I assume to inflict pain....that is torture in my book
Report Burton-Brewers • July 24, 2014 7:29 PM BST
"There was no intention"


I'd do it in bigger letters for you if I knew how
Report call me a taxi • July 24, 2014 7:37 PM BST
Here you are Burt.

THERE

WAS

NO

INTENTION
Report Burton-Brewers • July 24, 2014 7:38 PM BST
Laugh ta
Report i_agree_with_nick • July 24, 2014 7:42 PM BST
Laugh

EG - have you started early tonight?
Report ebulGery • July 24, 2014 8:17 PM BST
No I stand by this....why is this method of execution used?...and I doubt this has only happened once
although it does not usually take 2 hours

If the intention is to prolong the death process to inflict pain..that is torture
Why does the US do it?

The  US condemn Muslim and African societies as barbaric because they do not like gays
They moan at China for locking people up for nothing
They moan at Russia for just about everything they do

and yet these countries do not see the need to inflict pain in carrying out the death sentence
so why does the US do it?
Report Burton-Brewers • July 24, 2014 8:32 PM BST
Laugh ffs
Report i_agree_with_nick • July 24, 2014 8:34 PM BST
Do you honestly think the US uses lethal injection as a method of execution because it is more painful and tortuous?

It is seen as the least barbaric and most humane method.

If the intention is to prolong the death process to inflict pain..that is torture
Why does the US do it?


Cry


The  US condemn Muslim and African societies as barbaric because they do not like gays
They moan at China for locking people up for nothing
They moan at Russia for just about everything they do

and yet these countries do not see the need to inflict pain in carrying out the death sentence
so why does the US do it?


No, Saudi Arabia behead their death sentencees in public and other Muslim countries stone women to death for comitting adultery.
Report sideshowbob • July 24, 2014 8:37 PM BST
its one of the few things they get right
Report i_agree_with_nick • July 24, 2014 8:56 PM BST
The  US condemn Muslim and African societies as barbaric because they do not like gays
They moan at China for locking people up for nothing
They moan at Russia for just about everything they do

and yet these countries do not see the need to inflict pain in carrying out the death sentence
so why does the US do it?



From wikipedia:

China commonly employs two methods of execution. Since 1949, the most common method has been execution by firing squad, which has been largely superseded by lethal injection, using the same three-drug cocktail pioneered by the United States, introduced in 1996. Execution vans are unique to China, however. Lethal injection is more commonly used for "economic crimes", such as corruption, while firing squads are used for more common crimes like murder. In 2010, Chinese authorities moved to have lethal injection become the dominant form of execution; in some provinces and municipalities, it is now the only legal form of capital punishment
Report ebulGery • July 24, 2014 9:31 PM BST
oh dear

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection

If it works as intended. Them it is a painless death.
The problem is the initial anaesthesia drug in some cases wears off before the person is dead
they then suffer a painful death

and yes other countries are adopting thisSad

so basically I have been defeated hereBlush......but I have expressed my concerns
Report ebulGery • July 24, 2014 9:38 PM BST
Yes stoning to death remains law in some Islamic countriesSad
it is a death by torture punishment..my concern about lethal injection

But nowadays it is very rarely carried our, once the sentence is passed it is not usually carried out
it is commuted

Where they have been carried out, this is not usually part of the legal process
Report mobo • July 24, 2014 9:52 PM BST
I would have trebled it to 12 hours
nah  make it a few days
the spanish were good at it a few centuries ago
and so were we
Report mobo • July 24, 2014 9:52 PM BST
I would have trebled it to 12 hours
nah  make it a few days
the spanish were good at it a few centuries ago
and so were we
Report i_agree_with_nick • July 24, 2014 9:53 PM BST
Hanging and electric chair are still retained in many of the 35 US states that have the death penalty but are not used as lethal injection is the primary method
Report ebulGery • July 24, 2014 9:57 PM BST
I watched an interesting program recently
about someone whose job it was to maintain and service electric chairs

When people challenged him on this, how could you do such a job?
he said the electric chairs I service have become so run down, the death process was extended
his comment was the punishment was death, not death by torture, which was in effect happening

Sadly he lost his job, because he was trapped into being a holocaust denier, someone showed him a part of Auschwitz
and said in your professional opinion could you gas people here, he answered honestly and said no
so they said well that proves the holocaust never happened...I think he had been set up myself

Yes electric chairs remain, although not usually used now, they must have found someone else to service an maintain them,
or they just don't bother
Report themightymac • July 24, 2014 10:04 PM BST
Pierrepoint himself, argued against the death penalty, at the end. His book is quite a good read.
Report ebulGery • July 24, 2014 10:08 PM BST
Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's last official hangman, always prided himself on doing a good clean job
it was always done quickly

He executed over 400 people, including those after the Nuremburg trials

I watched a program once, when the chap to be hanged, said I have always wanted to meet you, but not in these circumstances
bang he was gone

I don't know if that was in the book, or it was fiction, I thought it was a good line to go out on
I think I may read that mightymac, sounds interesting
Report ebulGery • July 24, 2014 10:12 PM BST
imagine going to the job centre and when asked what was your previous job
saying public executioner, but we have now abolished the death penaltyq1 so I am out of a job

have you got anything for me?
Report ebulGery • July 24, 2014 10:26 PM BST
It was quite a skilled job, he had to estimate the prisoners weight, so to attach the right weight to them,
and estimate the drop distance

if this not done right, the condemned is either strangled to death, very painful
or their head is completely decapitated messy.

Pierpont prided himself on getting this right, and the speed as well, a door opened in the prisoners cell
they were immediately hooded, hands tied and rushed to the execution trap, weight attached, then bang, before they knew what was happening,
the cell was next to the execution chamber, although the condemned never knew this this

He must have questioned himself at the end of his life, and capital punishment, his entire life devoted
to executing people, as you say mightmac
Report Alias • July 24, 2014 10:27 PM BST
The stuff they use to euthanise animals works more or less instantly, doesn't it? Surely they could use a similar concoction.
Report ebulGery • July 24, 2014 10:31 PM BST
This is why I question the current method of lethal injection Alias?????

Regretfully they have extended it on animals, my cat was injected to put him to sleep, he remained awake
they then shaved his paw, put in a tube and completed the process

I very near punched that VET...although it may be standard practice now
It used to be just a quick injection once
Report mobo • July 24, 2014 10:39 PM BST
make it last a long time
like ....................
Report ebulGery • July 24, 2014 10:56 PM BST
some of us have moved on from that

also the US remains a very lawless society, so a deterrent to murder, it does not work
Report Slicer • July 25, 2014 8:00 AM BST
I have just been informed of the drugs they used-midazolam and hydromorphone-NO WONDER!!!!!
Report i_agree_with_nick • July 25, 2014 8:13 AM BST
ebulGery
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I watched an interesting program recently
about someone whose job it was to maintain and service electric chairs

When people challenged him on this, how could you do such a job?
he said the electric chairs I service have become so run down, the death process was extended
his comment was the punishment was death, not death by torture, which was in effect happening

Sadly he lost his job, because he was trapped into being a holocaust denier, someone showed him a part of Auschwitz
and said in your professional opinion could you gas people here, he answered honestly and said no
so they said well that proves the holocaust never happened...I think he had been set up myself

Yes electric chairs remain, although not usually used now, they must have found someone else to service an maintain them,
or they just don't bother


I thought he serviced electric chairs
Report Alias • July 25, 2014 8:30 AM BST
also the US remains a very lawless society, so a deterrent to murder, it does not work


You can say that again. BOTH sides of the law. I'd hate to be at the mercy of the US justice system. Even worse, at the mercy of the "authority" in Guantanamo.
Report ebulGery • July 25, 2014 9:29 AM BST
I thought he serviced electric chairs

yes he did. He became seduced by the idea he was an expert on execution techniques.
He did not seem a bad chap, he got himself into something he should not have.
I have forgotten the name of the program. I should have left that bit out.
The point was death in electric chairs is not instantaneous, especially when they have not
been properly serviced.
Report ebulGery • July 25, 2014 9:32 AM BST
I believe the Holocaust did happen
Report Dr Crippen • July 25, 2014 9:56 AM BST
Death by lethal injection usually works fine.
Unfortunately the drugs they've always used in America are manufactured in the UK or the EU, and we have stopped supplying them to the States because we don't approve of the death penalty.

Now the drugs they are using instead aren't nearly so good at dispatching the victims.

So it's the do-gooders the UK who are to blame for the suffering.
Report ebulGery • July 25, 2014 9:57 AM BST
you appear to be right Dr Crippen

To me shooting is the best method, bullet through back of head or firing squad
and hanging is perfectly ok.
Report ebulGery • July 25, 2014 9:58 AM BST
why change?
Report Super Hans • July 25, 2014 10:04 AM BST
Why not hang them whilst in an electric chair facing a firing squad.

Surely the quickest method available.

Knowing the yanks would also be a top rated TV show.
Report Dr Crippen • July 25, 2014 10:24 AM BST
The guillotine is an excellent tool for an execution.

Great entertainment too.

Families sitting around eating pop and crisps until the victim arrives in a cart accompanied by boos and sneers.

Then the victim's crimes are read out. More boos and sneers.
Followed by the walk to the execution platform.
The victim's head is placed under the guillotine and the drums start to roll - they stop.
The blade comes down, the head pops into the basket and a great cheer erupts from the crowd.
Marvellous stuff, if they sold tickets they'd make a fortune.
Report David Fishwick Minibus Sales • July 25, 2014 12:57 PM BST
Plain
Report call me a taxi • July 25, 2014 1:36 PM BST
They should be placed in a room with nothing else in it apart from a rusty jagged edge knife.

Then play Leonard Cohen records 24/7 at full blast.

If he hasn't killed himself in 7 days, let in one male rat and one female rat, who are both hungry. 

He either kills them, or in two months, they will have multiplied, and they eat him.

All on pay per view of course.
Report Foinavon • July 25, 2014 1:52 PM BST
recommended reading
A Handbook on Hanging by Charles Duff

"All very proper to be read and kept by every family"

"Not very long ago hanging was very popular. A hundred and sixty years ago there were 200 offences for which a man, woman or child could be hanged" (in England).

"One could be hanged for cutting down a tree or associating with gypsies" Excited
Report Foinavon • July 25, 2014 2:05 PM BST
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handbook-Hanging-Being-Introduction-Execution/dp/075...
Report Ken Masters • July 25, 2014 2:39 PM BST
Excuse me dear, is this the "Where is Mc Moonbeam" thread?
Report Slicer • July 25, 2014 2:51 PM BST
Right forum, wrong muppet , you thread!
Report Stevie Strikes • July 25, 2014 2:53 PM BST
Laugh
Report ebulGery • July 25, 2014 10:19 PM BST
Super Hans  • July 25, 2014 10:04 AM BST
Why not hang them whilst in an electric chair facing a firing squad.


brilliant, you have found the answer Hans
Report ebulGery • July 25, 2014 10:20 PM BST
one of that lot should surely kill someone in less than two hours
Report Aunty Post • July 27, 2014 9:50 AM BST
"The guillotine is an excellent tool for an execution".

During "The French Revolution" whole families went to these spectacles.

Programmes were handed out detailing the order of the condemned, and apparently the stench and flies were terrible.

It was said that some heads were responsive for up to thirty seconds after the chop.

The guillotine was also used by the Nazis, on tens of thousands of people.
Report Mexico • July 27, 2014 10:02 AM BST
Portillo did a programme for BBC a few years ago regarding different execution methods.

Suggested using nitrogen as an alternative to the various current methods




http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/executions/
Report flushgordon1 • July 27, 2014 10:08 AM BST
THey euthanise dogs cats horses with an overdose of barbiturates basically ,why cant they do it with humans,
Or why not a humane killer deadbolt gun like they use in slaughterhouses or if their jewish or muslim why not just cut their throats , i mean they say it does not hurt the animals give them a choice and see how many take the knife.
Report Aunty Post • July 27, 2014 10:15 AM BST
I still come back to previous comment, that the condemned should be anesthetised first,
and then whatever most convenient, and reliable procedure be used to terminate their life!

I mean that the whole procedure could be carried out in the operating theatre.
Report flushgordon1 • July 27, 2014 10:25 AM BST
Were their victims given the courtesy of anesthesia before they were raped ,beaten,shot,stabbed,throttled etc?
Report Makybe_Diva • July 27, 2014 11:13 AM BST
"It was said that some heads were responsive for up to thirty seconds after the chop."

Surprised
Report Slicer • July 27, 2014 11:15 AM BST
And spoke more sense than some forumites on the Politics forum!
Report i_agree_with_nick • July 27, 2014 11:51 AM BST
This thread is on A Road To Nowhere
Report flushgordon1 • July 27, 2014 12:00 PM BST
Is it a new Springsteen song title.
Report call me a taxi • July 27, 2014 1:46 PM BST
flushgordon1
27 Jul 14 10:25   
Were their victims given the courtesy of anesthesia before they were raped ,beaten,shot,stabbed,throttled etc?


The luvvies won't like that one.
Report ebulGery • July 27, 2014 2:50 PM BST
I am not a luvvie but I don't
I believe punishment should deterrent not revenge

otherwise we will end up back at burning people at the stake if we are not careful
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