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Firing squad.

That hypothetical roller coaster of consecutive smaller loops

wackyteen posted...

Wasn't expecting CE to take us to the guillotine

I just think it is

a) The fastest / most painless
b) most reliable

Any argument of "so brutal, gruesome, bloody, barbaric" gets instantly voided. It's a death penalty, that's already the low point of the moral ground, so F anyone who wants this "pretty".

Karovorak posted...

I just think it is

a) The fastest / most painless
b) most reliable

Any argument of "so brutal, gruesome, bloody, barbaric" gets instantly voided. It's a death penalty, that's already the low point of the moral ground, so F anyone who wants this "pretty".

The other thing to consider being, it's brutal for the audience and cleanup crew. Probably relatively quick and clean for the actual condemned person.

Which is even more true of the explosion method.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfsMMVgIToA The Onion

The one question I have while reading through all of this is why are people even talking about being 'humane' about it?

Isn't death supposed to be a punishment worse than life imprisonment?

I would honestly pick any of those options, and worse, over spending the rest of my life in a 5 square meter room.

I will add that I am against death penalty btw.

Only humane death
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/cd6e20ac.jpg

Blood angel

Buried up to shoulders, head pulled off with a tractor and a rope.

Why do I have to make the death penalty legal when it's illegal where Iive?

haarlem1982 posted...

The one question I have while reading through all of this is why are people even talking about being 'humane' about it?

Isn't death supposed to be a punishment worse than life imprisonment?

Yes, exactly. This shit should have been outlawed decades ago--centuries, even--but if the best TC will allow us to do is choose how it goes down, we do at least want to make it as not-unpleasant as possible.

haarlem1982 posted...

The one question I have while reading through all of this is why are people even talking about being 'humane' about it?

Isn't death supposed to be a punishment worse than life imprisonment?

I will add that I am against death penalty btw.

These two statements seem wildly inconsistent.

divot1338 posted...

These two statements seem wildly inconsistent.

Can you explain why they are inconsistent?

I never gave the reason why I'm against it.

In my opinion death is an easier way out than a long prison sentence.

And also why I would pick a fairly gruesome death over being locked up for the rest of my life

divot1338 posted...

These two statements seem wildly inconsistent.

Not really. Death penalty is just more than about a single issue and single discussion.

You can discuss the goal of the death penalty (and therefore also the method) differently than the death penalty itself.

The how, when, if, why and so on are all different questions for different discussions or answers.

You can argue that the death penalty should focus a clean death for the executed to be swiftly over, or if his interests are not supposed to be taken into account because he already did a crime deserving death. In other words, what is the penalty actually supposed to be?

Then you can also discuss the morality of taking a live itself, or if this is some border no state should ever cross. Is taking someones life something that can be justified at all?

And the most important part for me personally (and many others, as far is I'm aware of) is the simple possibility of wrong use: Death penalty is wrong because it can hit the wrong people without the chance of reversing the decision.

The consequence of even a single person put to death unjust outweights just any other argument you could put in favor for me.

Yes, I actually share the opinion that there are quite some crimes (and therefore people) who are deserving of a death penalty. The issue are the wrongly convicted people who don't.

haarlem1982 posted...

Can you explain why they are inconsistent?

I never gave the reason why I'm against it.

In my opinion death is an easier way out than a long prison sentence.

If you ask people why should a death penalty be humane, then Im highly skeptical that youre against the death penalty.

And also why I would pick a fairly gruesome death over being locked up for the rest of my life

Wait. Do you think the convicted have a say in their punishment?

divot1338 posted...

Wait. Do you think the convicted have a say in their punishment?

Think the implication there is they could wind up with the death penalty. Which is troubling, but considering how many innocents have been sentenced to death, it isn't that troubling