Your preferred method of execution?

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Which way?

  • Firing squad

    Votes: 14 43.8%
  • Lethal injection

    Votes: 10 31.3%
  • Electrocution

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Hanging

    Votes: 1 3.1%
  • Gas chamber

    Votes: 1 3.1%
  • Surprise me (ISIS style)

    Votes: 6 18.8%

  • Total voters
    32

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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The crazy thing is a lot of this stuff still goes on in the world. Even the US government does some torture though not quite AS bad as these. I do recall an execution involving basically scalding someone to death in a jail shower though, that would be a brutal way to go as well.

Then there's the crazy stuff ISIS/islam does.
 

Starbuck1975

Lifer
Jan 6, 2005
14,698
1,909
126
Monty Python Meaning of Life was the first thing that came to mind. I would post the media but it has nudity
 

Darwin333

Lifer
Dec 11, 2006
19,946
2,329
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The crazy thing is a lot of this stuff still goes on in the world. Even the US government does some torture though not quite AS bad as these. I do recall an execution involving basically scalding someone to death in a jail shower though, that would be a brutal way to go as well.

Then there's the crazy stuff ISIS/islam does.

Yeah I remember that case and I dunno bud, I'd take a good beheading over being boiled (or is it broiled?) alive any day.

Now the buried up to the neck thing and rocks chucked at me, I'm not so sure about that bullshit.
 

Darwin333

Lifer
Dec 11, 2006
19,946
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I'm telling your wife that you're cheating.


Assuming that the executee is guilty....If it's me, lethal injection. If it's some gangstalker, ISIS all the way.


If it's you then we are going to tell your wife you are cheating and let her choose your method of execution. May God have mercy and all that stuff.
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
65,894
14,296
146
If it's you then we are going to tell your wife you are cheating and let her choose your method of execution. May God have mercy and all that stuff.

Cheating on the wife?

there are only two appropriate methods to deal with that

1. nail his balls to a barn wall...set the barn on fire, give him a VERY dull knife.

2. nail his nuts to a stump...push him off backwards. (no knife)

Or at least, that's what my wife says is appropriate... :D
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,448
2,873
126
You gotta admit, Kim Jong-Un having his general executed via Anti-Air barrage is pretty cool.
 

bradly1101

Diamond Member
May 5, 2013
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www.bradlygsmith.org
Other:





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Dr. Strangelove was the best movie. Ice Station Zebra was excellent too.
 

bradly1101

Diamond Member
May 5, 2013
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www.bradlygsmith.org
I'd say lethal injection is probably the most calm and less painful way to go. You basically die in your sleep. They even sedate you before they give you the actual injection!

I've always had mixed feelings about capital punishment though. I don't like the idea of the government directly killing it's own citizens, but on the other hand, there are people out there who simply should not be part of society, like mass murderers, child molesters, etc. But then do you trust the government to decide who these people are that should die. They often punish people based on their own agendas and not based on what they did. Take Edward Snowden for example, he's a good guy as far as the people and ethics is concerned, but as far as the law is concerned he would get death penalty.
They can't get the good drugs anymore. Something about doing no harm by pharmaceutical companies who cause addiction, injury, and death with other products. Gotta love them.
 
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Darwin333

Lifer
Dec 11, 2006
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Cheating on the wife?

there are only two appropriate methods to deal with that

1. nail his balls to a barn wall...set the barn on fire, give him a VERY dull knife.

2. nail his nuts to a stump...push him off backwards. (no knife)

Or at least, that's what my wife says is appropriate... :D

Ouch... Although it's better than the woman who cut off her mans pecker and then made him eat it!
 

Darwin333

Lifer
Dec 11, 2006
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They can't get the good drugs anymore. Something about doing no harm by pharmaceutical companies who cause addiction, injury, and death with other products. Gotta love them.

No kidding, the irony is absurd. I read somewhere that inert gas is a rather peaceful way to go.
 
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BudAshes

Lifer
Jul 20, 2003
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I think we should just take people up in a plane and huck them out over the ocean from about 10k feet. No mess, no fuss.
 

GagHalfrunt

Lifer
Apr 19, 2001
25,284
1,997
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I think we should just take people up in a plane and huck them out over the ocean from about 10k feet. No mess, no fuss.

And it gives them plenty of time to think about how they wound up getting in that situation. And hey, if they survive, let them go free. Make it like a game show.
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
Jan 12, 2005
32,653
10,830
136
We confiscate loads of opiates why dont we just whack a ludicrous amount of that into people rather that paying to incinerate it plus buying drugs to kill people
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
59,391
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They should bring back outlawry. Let nature follow it's own course.

Woody Guthrie said:
I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.
 

GagHalfrunt

Lifer
Apr 19, 2001
25,284
1,997
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We confiscate loads of opiates why dont we just whack a ludicrous amount of that into people rather that paying to incinerate it plus buying drugs to kill people

Screw that. Rope off like a 20 square block area of Detroit and dump all the would-be snuff monkeys from the entire country into it armed with knives, crowbars, machetes, whatever. Set up thousands of cameras, helicopters, drones, and record every second. Last man standing goes back to jail and lives out his life in peace, the rest are given a fighting chance. If you sell the TV rights the government could make millions on it. It would beat the shit out of Survivor and Big Brother in the ratings.
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
Jan 12, 2005
32,653
10,830
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Screw that. Rope off like a 20 square block area of Detroit and dump all the would-be snuff monkeys from the entire country into it armed with knives, crowbars, machetes, whatever. Set up thousands of cameras, helicopters, drones, and record every second. Last man standing goes back to jail and lives out his life in peace, the rest are given a fighting chance. If you sell the TV rights the government could make millions on it. It would beat the shit out of Survivor and Big Brother in the ratings.
But... Isn't that just Detroit without TV rights?
 
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Darwin333

Lifer
Dec 11, 2006
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We confiscate loads of opiates why dont we just whack a ludicrous amount of that into people rather that paying to incinerate it plus buying drugs to kill people

I thought about that too, isn't a heroin overdose a rather painless way to go? Don't they just go to sleep/pass out and never wake up again? If so we confiscate an absurd amount every year, guess the lethal dosage and give them 50X that.
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
Jan 12, 2005
32,653
10,830
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I thought about that too, isn't a heroin overdose a rather painless way to go? Don't they just go to sleep/pass out and never wake up again? If so we confiscate an absurd amount every year, guess the lethal dosage and give them 50X that.
It must be pretty pleasant as everyone I've reversed from it was really pissed at me for ruining their high rather that happy I'd saved them!

You kind of get high, your breathing slows until it stops then you die. If it doesn't work you just get high.
 

snoopy7548

Diamond Member
Jan 1, 2005
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Amazing that we have had the technology and medicines to put people under for MAJOR surgeries in which a crazy amount of pain would otherwise be endured for quite a while now. Yet we can't seem to get it right when trying to kill people in a, at least I hope, a merciful way.

Why don't they just put you to sleep with anesthesia and amputate your head? Or something...