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Thread ID: 137588 2014-07-26 02:46:00 Nearly 2 hrs to die. Cicero (40) PC World Chat
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1380112 2014-07-26 22:33:00 What a wonderful world we live in when the killer gets more sympathy than the victim.

I say, "Let the bastards rot in hell.............................................. slowly!"
Zippity (58)
1380113 2014-07-27 00:38:00 My point isn't about the bugger who died, but about the inability of the yanks to knock someone off.

As PC said, they do with dogs every day.
Cicero (40)
1380114 2014-07-27 01:22:00 Well, lawyers protested about the old drugs, so they found some that cut the lawyers revenue stream off. Sadly, those drugs came from Europe and the EEC pulled the pin because people were dying from the injections. The substitute mix has (apparently) successfully restored the lawyers revenue stream, because if the ultimate deterrent is a bit too deterring, human rights are involved. Dogs, cats, horses and criminals are entitled to a swift, painless and dignified exit. People with agonising terminal illnesses can just wait and suffer, (the official viewpoint) and money is no object in prolonging their suffering
Mix politicians, bureaucrats, and the legal system ~ stuff will happen.
R2x1 (4628)
1380115 2014-07-27 05:50:00 Cic - my comments were NOT directed at you :) Zippity (58)
1380116 2014-07-27 08:26:00 Cic - my comments were NOT directed at you :)
As I thought Zip.;)
Cicero (40)
1380117 2014-07-27 10:28:00 A whole bunch of 7.62mm bullets to the heart will do it in an instant.Nah it doesn't quite work like that, to the best of my knowledge... a few bullets to the heart is about the same as a fatal heart attack, and the victim goes through incredible pain for 2 - 3 minutes before his brain ceases functioning and then death occurs. Better to do a well aimed shot through the head for it to be instant. Greg (193)
1380118 2014-07-28 09:24:00 Nah it doesn't quite work like that, to the best of my knowledge... a few bullets to the heart is about the same as a fatal heart attack, and the victim goes through incredible pain for 2 - 3 minutes before his brain ceases functioning and then death occurs. Better to do a well aimed shot through the head for it to be instant.
Fair comment but the head is a smaller target than the trunk, there may be some bullets missing the head as a target. I think the firing squads the poms used to execute 5 of our soldiers in WW1 aimed at the heart. Be pretty untidy a fusillade of bullets to the head might fit the unusual bit of cruel and unusual criteria for executions.
prefect (6291)
1380119 2014-07-28 14:13:00 The guillotine is pretty efficient. R2x1 (4628)
1380120 2014-07-29 00:33:00 The guillotine is pretty efficient.
Yes, although it may allow for a short post decapitation interaction with the subject.
Quite common during the French revolution apparently.
science.howstuffworks.com
KarameaDave (15222)
1380121 2014-07-29 00:55:00 Yes, but that was learners on their first execution, 2nd time on the guillotine there's no blinking fuss. ;) R2x1 (4628)
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