Just thinking about the Sadam execution today or tomorrow. I would have thought that there would be a better way of executing someone in a split second rather than hanging. Seems so archiac.
In light of all the recent issues with the supposedly more human ways, I am not so sure hanging is not as humane or more so.
From a fast/painless/ error proof method the Guillotine might be the winner.
I’m not sure that I’d characterize current Iraq as “civilized,” but hanging seems as good as any other method of execution. It should be accomplished in that split second- I don’t think they’re going to dangle him until he chokes to death.
I don’t think they’re going to dangle him until he chokes to death.
I was told that the knot is designed to break the neck instantaneously causing death. The trick is that the fall has to be long enough to cause enough force.
Bernie
I don’t think they’re going to dangle him until he chokes to death.
I was told that the knot is designed to break the neck instantaneously causing death. The trick is that the fall has to be long enough to cause enough force.
Bernie
Thats my understanding also, odd how most people think that people who get hung die by suffocation.
The breaking of the neck is only 1 of the possible causes of death. You can also have decapitation and/or blocking of the blood vessels in the neck.
Why do you think he deserves to die quickly? After all the people that he is directly responsible for their deaths. I hope he dies nice and slow.
Post: I don’t think they’re going to dangle him until he chokes to death.
I was told that the knot is designed to break the neck instantaneously causing death. The trick is that the fall has to be long enough to cause enough force.
Bernie
In a recent special that I watched on the Nat’l Geo Channel about a 16 yo girl who was hung for “crimes against chastity”, the Iranians apparently just hook the noose up to a crane and then hoist you into the air, so that you do die slowly of stangulation. So not everyone uses a gallows.
Ed
New Hampshire and Washington both still have hanging as a form of execution, however, lethal injection is an option that the hangee can opt for.
If you are looking for a merciful / painless method of excution, the French (who I give very little credit to) did develop the **guillotine **as a humane form of execution.
If you are looking for a merciful / painless method of excution, the French (who I give very little credit to) did develop the **guillotine **as a humane form of execution.
As I stated above, I think it maybe one of the if not the most humane form. Just make sure it is sharp, has more than enough mass, and a clean track.
Its got to be nearly instantaneous.
Ed,
That is pretty gross. I would not ever want to witness that and certainly do not condone that.
Bernie
The breaking of the neck is only 1 of the possible causes of death. You can also have decapitation and/or blocking of the blood vessels in the neck.
Casey,
I believe you are correct. Certainly there are several ways someone can die from being hanged. All of them are quite terrible in my opinion. My point was that death by hanging on the gallows is supposed to happen because the knot breaks the neck. Back in the 18th century in England they used to hire a guy to go around underneath the gallows and pull on the hanged peoples’ feet to assure that their necks were broken. It was an issue because they would hang a dozen or so people at the same time and because they were all falling the same distance and had the same length of rope not all of them were heavy enough to fall with enough force to break the neck. It was a nasty job because the guy would get urinated on when he pulled their feet. One of the perks though was that they would get their pick of trophies from the executed. Pretty sick stuff.
Bernie
Doesn’t it seem “more strange” that we, in America, seek executions that are painless to the executed?
They’ve killed enough people and caused enough damage to warrant a death sentence, and now we think it’s unfair if they feel some pain?
THAT seems strange. Actually it makes zero sense.
Sounds fine to me for a guy who routinely sent people through a human meat grinder to die.
In fact , I think, he should suffer a much more prolonged horrible death, he’s getting off easy in my book.
I agree…I think he should have died a much more horrible death…maybe having his skin slowly pulled off…and that would be the beginning.
I think I wrote this thread in a misleading way. I have no compassion for Sadam. I am merely questioning hanging as a modern day choice for execution. It seems archaic, but that may not necessarily be the case.
Saddam and his sons had a special way of executing the Kurds, it was to throw them into large woodchippers. They did this both dead bodies and also to ‘special enemies of the state’.
They’ve killed enough people and caused enough damage to warrant a death sentence, and now we think it’s unfair if they feel some pain?
THAT seems strange. Actually it makes zero sense.
You took the words right off my keyboard.
They’ve killed enough people and caused enough damage to warrant a death sentence, and now we think it’s unfair if they feel some pain?
THAT seems strange. Actually it makes zero sense
Actually, if you hold an organized government of the people to a higher standard than a mass murderer, and expect just a wee bit more from them, it makes perfect sense.