Never heard a complaint from the guillotine. That thing can chop all day every day for weeks. The French had a go at maxing it out. Didn’t even brake a sweat.
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djdarren@piefed.social 8 hours ago
After reading the news about Christa Pike, I found an article on Wikipedia listing a bunch of botched executions.
Since 2000, 5% of lethal injections have gone wrong in one way or another. That’s 17 botched injections in 26 years. That’s an unreasonably high failure rate for something that they have no intention of stopping.
tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
How don’t they have a backup method? There must be someone around with a gun? Double tap just in case, even if the chemical method seems to work.
If you must execute people, at least have the decency to do it properly.
Supercrunchy@programming.dev 3 hours ago
IMHO the entire injection procedure is to keep it “clean” and socially accepted. Very few people would be happy to see somebody being shot in the head, but seeing somebody “falling asleep” is much more “ok”. It looks less violent even though the end result is the same. Surviving a lethal injection and waking up again in that nightmare must be horrible.
The reality is that death penalty is cruel and more costly than keeping someone in prison for life, and this doesn’t even consider the human cost of executing an innocent. It just doesn’t make sense.
nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 3 hours ago
Dying slowly from an injection (or not at all) is more cruel that a bullet to the brain. You are right that it’s done because observers don’t have the stomach for an bullet to the head. But if you don’t have the stomach to carry out the sentence that you meted out, then you shouldn’t be meeting out that sentence.