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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

why change?

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.

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.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handbook-Hanging-Being-Introduction-Execution/dp/0752460684

Right forum, wrong muppet , you thread!

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

"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.

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.

Were their victims given the courtesy of anesthesia before they were raped ,beaten,shot,stabbed,throttled etc?

And spoke more sense than some forumites on the Politics forum!

Is it a new Springsteen song title.

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