Sykasa
I'll be honest, i never thought about HOW death sentences are executed, mostly because i live in a country where death sentences are seen as barbaric and are not possible thankfully. But now that i think about it, a "mutli-drug cocktail" sounds like one of the worst ideas, next hanging and guillotine.
Jun 26, 2023 at 10:05amWeb
Show threadDeceptichumJun 26, 2023

Being drawn and quartered or golden bulled sounds like one of the worse ideas.

Hanging, rifle line, and the guillotine are slightly better as they’re less violent and more ‘matter of fact’.

A multi-drug cocktail sounds like one of the most humane methods, medicinally and painlessly ending a life. Sadly they’ve fucked up even that by not doing it properly.

Show threadGraceGHJun 26, 2023
The problem is you can't get any actual doctors to help make it medically sound on account of that whole "do no harm" thing they're supposed to uphold, so you end up with quacks that use a functionally random set of drugs that make it appear to the crowd as a painless way to die when in actuality its one of the most brutally painful possible ways to die.
Show threadDeceptichumJun 26, 2023

Death can be a freedom from harm, ex. Euthanasia.

So if they were going to die anyway, a doctor could rationalise it as helping them have the least suffering.

Show threadpineapplefriedriceJun 26, 2023
The issue with things like hanging is that there's more room for political abuse because it's so theatrical. Even if a lethal injection took place in a town square, it would have nowhere near the same capacity for terrorism and suppressing dissent.