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I think the guillotine is best, but a little messy. I believe it was being used in France into the 1950s.
I once had a private tour of the new Ohio maximum security prison in Lucasville about 50 years ago, before any prisoners were re-located there. I saw and went inside the execution chamber (electric chair then) and was disappointed there was no big knife switch like you see in the movies. Just a single button, like an electric motor starter. I do not know whether the chair was ever used there, as Ohio changed to lethal injection.
I once had a private tour of the new Ohio maximum security prison in Lucasville about 50 years ago, before any prisoners were re-located there. I saw and went inside the execution chamber (electric chair then) and was disappointed there was no big knife switch like you see in the movies. Just a single button, like an electric motor starter. I do not know whether the chair was ever used there, as Ohio changed to lethal injection.
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steelslaver;142047467 As far as public executions being a deterrent said:
That would be the execution part, private or public part has no effect what so ever on the 2nd offense part.
Back in the day we all got to see films with plenty of gore and horror caused by high speed, drinking and driving. Yet, most of us drove like maniacs anyway.
I have seen my share and have absolutely no desire to witness a public execution unless the victim was a family member and I get do the honors.
In fact the less publicity theses creatures get the better. They should be assigned a random number and that changes every year or so and their names should be erased from all history and publicizing it should be a crime.
Lot of them feed on notoriety and that should become impossible.
254v4h5, then u86b3n, then 343bf5 followed by 4h45434, instead of Charles Manson
Back in the day we all got to see films with plenty of gore and horror caused by high speed, drinking and driving. Yet, most of us drove like maniacs anyway.
I have seen my share and have absolutely no desire to witness a public execution unless the victim was a family member and I get do the honors.
In fact the less publicity theses creatures get the better. They should be assigned a random number and that changes every year or so and their names should be erased from all history and publicizing it should be a crime.
Lot of them feed on notoriety and that should become impossible.
254v4h5, then u86b3n, then 343bf5 followed by 4h45434, instead of Charles Manson
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"Too much" is still instantly fatal. Calculations are done before a government mandated hanging for weight and build, but nothing is 100% perfect. I'd rather err on too much than too little.
I like that idea, but keep it at three points. If you can't figure out what you're doing wrong in life after two tries, then you never will.
Some of you guys should defect to Iran and apply for a government job.
January 5TH, 1993, Washington State. Westly Allan Dodd, convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering 3 young boys, is hanged by the neck until dead. In this case, when you say, "He asked for it." you are correct. He did ask to be executed, and in fact waived his appeals, and he chose hanging over lethal injection. He said that if he ever got out, he would rape and murder again and he would, "Love every minute of it."
I for one am glad he is dead and his method of execution bothers me not at all. May he burn in Hell for all eternity.
I for one am glad he is dead and his method of execution bothers me not at all. May he burn in Hell for all eternity.
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MSgt. Woods, the official U.S. Army executioner who hanged many of the Nazi war criminals after WWII, preferred the short drop method. Most of his clients strangled to death. Turned out he lied when he claimed that he had been a hangman in Texas before the war to get the job. Woods met a fitting end himself. He was accidentally electrocuted. French MacLean. “American Hangman. Mastersergeant John C. Woods. The United States Army’s notorious executioner in World War II and N"urnberg”
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Do you think we're nuts? You can't buy Smith & Wessons there.
If you want to read an interesting book on executions read "88 Men and 2 Women" written by Clinton Duffy after he was warden at San Quentin.
I don't care what method is used, as far as I'm concerned if the monster is evil to the point of murdering innocent people then that person is a factory defect and needs to be returned to the manufacturer ASAP.
Don't worry, there's about 8 billion of us here now and we have the capability to make more.
Don't worry, there's about 8 billion of us here now and we have the capability to make more.
Years ago, on another board, someone found and posted the official US Army execution manual. They made quite a ceremony out of the occasion, at least when executing one of their own. Don't recall the date, but it was definitely post WWII/Korea. The details on the mechanics of the hanging process were interesting. Seems a lot of folklore about hangings aren't true.
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As I remember, the U.S. Army executed only one of its soldiers by firing squad during WWII. I think it was for desertion, and it did not work out very well for the Army. Quite a few soldiers were hanged for various infractions. There are several interesting books about executions and executioners. One of the best was about the famous British hangman named Albert Pierrepoint. He performed most of the British hangings in the British Isles and Ireland between 1930 and the 1950s when the British ceased capital punishment. He also hanged numerous Nazi war criminals. Unfortunately, I don't remember the book's title. When he wasn't out executing people he ran a famous London Pub. The book is very graphic about exactly how he performed his duties. He apprenticed under his father and uncle, both of whom were also British official executioners.
This is he book referred to above. [ame]https://www.amazon.com/Executioner-Pierrepoint-autobiography-Albert-PIERREPOINT/dp/1858820618[/ame]
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As a result, they brought in the UK hangman, Albert Pierpoint. He once (in civvy street) executed three men in under 15 seconds using the same gallows with three ropes and trapdoors. He basically took over the rest of the N'burg people left to be executed. He was a publican in civilian life running a pub in London that I did have a few drinks in when a grad student at the Univ London in the early 1960s. Dave_n
this is not a subject to be spoken about with gentleman, such as our selves. Shame on all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've hit the red triangle button. Now bring it on I am ready...
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