Which way would you choose to be executed?

Based upon the execution in Utah that just happened, where he chose to be executed by a firing squad, I was wondering if for some reason you were sentenced to the death penalty, and had a choice, which method would you choose?

Here is an article about all 8.

http://civilliberty.about.com/od/capita ... xecutions/

I was torn between lethal injection and the firing squad. I heard the lethal injection hurts like heck and takes a minute. The firing squad would be over within seconds.

If I wanted painless and quick, I would go for the guillotine.

I think it shows a little old school class to be shot by the firing squad. I would be smoking w/o the blindfold looking the shooters in the face.

Little Known Fact: The press likes to make a big deal that one of the shooters has a blank, but most shooters can instantly tell if they are shooting a blank or a real bullet.

pinedust wrote: If I wanted painless and quick, I would go for the guillotine.

The french believed that the brain would see & understand for 6-8 seconds, that why they would grab the head and show it to the crowds, to futher torment the beheaded.


Besides think about it 1 .306 can take down a 6-7 hundred pound elk. 1 Shot 1 Kill. Yes, I always run up and double tap the elk JUST in case.
He was tired to a chair (still target) and had 4 rounds put in his heart, thought a target.

SS109 wrote: I think it shows a little old school class to be shot by the firing squad. I would be smoking w/o the blindfold looking the shooters in the face.

Little Known Fact: The press likes to make a big deal that one of the shooters has a blank, but most shooters can instantly tell if they are shooting a blank or a real bullet.

I wondered about that. How can they tell? If they have the same ammount of gun powder, then won't it feel the same?

I voted other, cuz I'd choose to be executed by old age.

The Viking wrote:

SS109 wrote: I think it shows a little old school class to be shot by the firing squad. I would be smoking w/o the blindfold looking the shooters in the face.

Little Known Fact: The press likes to make a big deal that one of the shooters has a blank, but most shooters can instantly tell if they are shooting a blank or a real bullet.

I wondered about that. How can they tell? If they have the same ammount of gun powder, then won't it feel the same?

The bullet adds a certain amount of mass which impacts the recoil felt by the shooter.

TPP wrote:

pinedust wrote: If I wanted painless and quick, I would go for the guillotine.

The french believed that the brain would see & understand for 6-8 seconds, that why they would grab the head and show it to the crowds, to futher torment the beheaded.

In fact, a French doctor did a study where he called the name of the person to the "head" with closed eyes and noted that the eye's responded to the name and that went on for 6-8 seconds before the brain dies of oxygen starvation.