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I unironically believe we should bring back firing squads, if we're keeping executions at all.
Lethal injection is so fickle and extremely painful/terrifying for the victim (look to doctor reports on the three drugs used -- youre basically paralyzed but in constant agony the whole time, but because youre paralyzed it looks really peaceful)
Firing squad, but it should be staffed by a random section of pro capital punishment voters.
“You want people to die for their crimes? Cool, you do it then"
Probably would just use ai no?
You mean robots?
I’m vehemently against death penalties, but if we wanted to make it “humane”, which is a gross misuse of the word, we’d just use nitrogen. There’s genuinely no reason for anything else besides intentional suffering and money
The problem with nitrogen is it's comfortable for the executioner and scalable. Historically that combination doesn't go well
Well this shit is clearly also not working. Hey here's an idea, let's not allow the state to execute citizens!
Yeah, carbon monoxide is already a popular home remedy for a shitty life so why not?
Firing squads ain't exactly instant, either.
Yeah but at least it doesn't look peaceful, which is appropriate for the barbaric act that every kind of capital punishment is.
Yeah it takes maybe a full second to die.
Tall that to the Chicago trauma team lol
Ugh, like a chemical bronze bull... yeah it's freaking horrifying.
I looked up this bronze bull of yours, and it's nasty.
(For others who didn't know, apparently this ancient Greek tyrant put people inside a hollow bronze bull, closed the lid, and lit a fire underneath, so that while the person inside cooks to death their screams bellow out of the Bull's mouth)
Yeah I felt pretty gross even mentioning it, but basically the "genius" of the device was making the suffering more palatable to those on the outside of it, so it reminded me of the mentality behind injections today.
According to anecdote and/or legend, the inventor was the first victim.
Yeesh. :(
"Palatable". I'm thinking, there was exactly one person in the empire who enjoyed employing the Bronze Bull, and one only. In some lead infused craze he's super giddy about roasting someone alive, but also- haha! So much fun, because it sounds like the screams are coming from the pig's face! LOOOL! So much fun for everyone, must have smelled fantastic. I mean that, human flesh probably smelled like any other barbecue, so you would not only get the visceral PTSD inducing horror of hearing someone cooking to death, but you will also forever connect it with the sweet smell of fried meat.
The old Persian "death by canoe" springs to mind, because it feels like that is what a psychotic child brought up in the most impossible of circumstances and cutthroat competition as the sole survivor of the dynasty would come up with. Like, some poor kid perpetually manipulated and gaslighted by all the people around them vying for their piece of the power cake as it were, until they were molded into these monsters. Kind of like Caligula, you know? Little Boot? And it always felt like, to me... That it was a punishment invented by either a maladapted child, or extremely traumatized older prince.
It's childish.
It's like, "Sire, what would you have done with these traitors before you?" "The most horrific punishment in the Universe!" "And what is that, m'lord?" "Well... What if.... We put them in a canoe, and then but another canoe on top, but also make sure their arms and legs are exposed to the sun, and then, and then, and then, then you force feed them milk and honey until they are about to burst and hit their bellies with rods, and push them out into the reeds, so that they waste away over weeks being eaten alive by insects".
My little brother could come up with some shit like this for a DnD campaign, it's just... Bizarrely childish, and childishly bizarre. Anyway that's my three dollars fifty cents.
Guillotine! It may not be pretty, but it is quite literally designed to stop human error. So far i have not heard of anyone surviving getting their head cleanly removed from the shoulders.
i can very much see firing squads go wrong - leading to a drawn out, painful death.