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Title: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: TomSea on December 07, 2018, 01:23:15 am
The great state of Tennessee has recently had 2 inmates choosing the electric chair over lethal injection, the article seems to indicate they have no other choices such as hanging or by firing squad:

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Tennessee inmate chooses electric chair over lethal injection
    6 December 2018

An inmate in the US state of Tennessee is to be executed by electric chair after arguing that a lethal injection would involve suffering.


David Earl Miller, who has spent 36 years on death row, is among an increasing number of inmates attempting to avoid lethal injection following several botched executions.

Another Tennessee inmate, Edmund Zagorski, was electrocuted last month.

Lethal injection is the state's main method of execution.

More: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46465038 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46465038)

Poll will be added.

Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Wingnut on December 07, 2018, 01:28:27 am
Firing squad.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: XenaLee on December 07, 2018, 01:30:10 am
You know that lovely stuff they shoot into your veins right before they're going to operate or perform a medical procedure?  I would want THAT.  Whadda way to go!  Painless... and feeling sooooo good (at least, physically).
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Gefn on December 07, 2018, 01:32:49 am
Death by chocolate

I’ve never been to Tennessee
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: XenaLee on December 07, 2018, 01:36:25 am
Death by chocolate

I’ve never been to Tennessee

Death by decadence? 

Like this.... pecan pie cobbler....

https://www.aol.com/video/playlist/PL10490/5c002bd90153012b23e2ff09/ (https://www.aol.com/video/playlist/PL10490/5c002bd90153012b23e2ff09/)

(Sorry, Tom.  Couldn't resist)
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: mystery-ak on December 07, 2018, 01:42:33 am
sleeping pills with a bottle of champagne...
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: corbe on December 07, 2018, 02:03:21 am
   Working in the Electronic field most my life and being shocked more times than I care to remember comingled with my fond memories of my drug years, I went with the dope option.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: the_doc on December 07, 2018, 02:06:29 am
sleeping pills with a bottle of champagne...

Sounds about right to me.

Seriously, I am appalled that this question exists in today's USA.  A big dose of Fentanyl will put you out painlessly and permanently.  Heck, even a small dose often does it accidentally.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 07, 2018, 02:08:06 am
My option isn't there.  I want to be blown up with a nuclear device. 
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Wingnut on December 07, 2018, 02:10:00 am
Upon further reflection, I want to go out like Hatchet Jack.


(https://external-preview.redd.it/eAGzxfi1BSfunjLGrx2eoJE5HNViQko2WmujJ6WZ00k.jpg?width=800&auto=webp&s=2f88155d91740545d3f27569bedc1c33c2480c43)

Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: HoustonSam on December 07, 2018, 02:13:59 am
Nitrogen asphyxiation.  I really don't know why this has not become the standard method of execution, it is likely completely pain free, with no unusual sensations until the loss of consciousness.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 07, 2018, 02:15:04 am
Nitrogen asphyxiation.  I really don't know why this has not become the standard method of execution, it is likely completely pain free, with no unusual sensations until the loss of consciousness.

I think the first attempt at this lead to choking and puking.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Sanguine on December 07, 2018, 02:44:38 am
I think @the_doc is right.  Fentanyl.  I wonder if also that would make some pre-fentanyl abusers think before they use it?
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Wingnut on December 07, 2018, 02:53:16 am
I think the first attempt at this lead to choking and puking.

I'm gettin' worried about Fred here, he's lookin' a little thin in the skin!

10-4. I'll drop the dolly off at a choke-and-puke, and then I'll get right back on the job.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on December 07, 2018, 03:37:40 am
Xenia Onatopp

(https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/films/2016/04/19/bond2_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpg?imwidth=480)
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Ghost Bear on December 07, 2018, 03:39:17 am
Smothered to death by... wait, I have to choose from those two options?

Never mind.   *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: the_doc on December 07, 2018, 03:42:07 am
I think @the_doc is right.  Fentanyl.  I wonder if also that would make some pre-fentanyl abusers think before they use it?

Good point.  The lethality certainly should give narcotics addicts pause before knowingly using it for a high.  (Unfortunately, a lot of weaker narcotics are laced with fentanyl.  A narcotics-naïve user--for example, someone with only a little experience with Oxycontin--will die from fentanyl-laced Oxy.  Caveat emptor.  [I think that's Latin for "know your pusher and be sure you never make him mad."])   

As I recall, the lethal dose for fentanyl is frightfully close to the effective dose for achieving significant pain control from it.  By the same token, the lethal dose is probably just above the euphoria-inducing dose for addicts.  I suspect that fentanyl is one of the main causes of the 200 or so narcotics overdose deaths we have every day in the USA.

(As an aside, it occurs to me that some folks might have discarded the fentanyl idea for executions because death is likely not instantaneous, even in absolutely lethal doses.  [Then again, so what if that's true?])
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Frank Cannon on December 07, 2018, 03:43:34 am
I'd go with an injection of Aids or Syph. Death sentence? You bet. Fast acting? Not at all.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 07, 2018, 03:51:34 am
I'm gettin' worried about Fred here, he's lookin' a little thin in the skin!

10-4. I'll drop the dolly off at a choke-and-puke, and then I'll get right back on the job.

Heh.  "Smokey and the Bandit."  Jerry Reed said it.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Gefn on December 07, 2018, 04:01:05 am
My option isn't there.  I want to be blown up with a nuclear device.

Kittens and donuts. Kittens can kill you with cuteness.

@Cyber Liberty
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: 240B on December 07, 2018, 04:04:35 am
Erotic asphyxiation -- I want to go out hanging by a belt in my closet
With my hand on my dick
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Cyber Liberty on December 07, 2018, 04:04:57 am
Kittens and donuts. Kittens can kill you with cuteness.

@Cyber Liberty

 ****cute kitty 888heartkitty
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Wingnut on December 07, 2018, 04:07:38 am
Erotic asphyxiation -- I want to go out hanging by a belt in my closet
With my hand on my dick

In a Bangkok hotel room?
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Frank Cannon on December 07, 2018, 04:08:30 am
Erotic asphyxiation -- I want to go out hanging by a belt in my closet
With my hand on my dick

(https://media.giphy.com/media/ADr35Z4TvATIc/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: corbe on December 07, 2018, 04:10:49 am
Erotic asphyxiation -- I want to go out hanging by a belt in my closet
With my hand on my dick

   You're still in love with that thing after all these years @240B ?
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Wingnut on December 07, 2018, 04:13:39 am
   You're still in love with that thing after all these years @240B ?

Don't knock it till you try it.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Frank Cannon on December 07, 2018, 04:17:23 am
Just as I thought. Lethal Injection is winning 8:1 because everyone here is a junkie and loves needles.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on December 07, 2018, 04:47:22 am
Erotic asphyxiation -- I want to go out hanging by a belt in my closet
[snip]

There was a thread the other day about how Elon Musk was going to transform the world.  My bet is that he's dead within two years.  This was one of the ways.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: dfwgator on December 07, 2018, 05:05:35 am
NISUS: Good. Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each. Next. Crucifixion?

MR. CHEEKY: Ah, no. Freedom.

JAILER: Hmm?

NISUS: What?

MR. CHEEKY: Eh, freedom for me. They said I hadn't done anything, so I could go free and live on an island somewhere.

NISUS: Oh. Oh, well, that's jolly good. Well, off you go, then.

MR. CHEEKY: Naa, I'm only pulling your leg. It's crucifixion, really.

NISUS: Oh, ho ho.

MR. CHEEKY: Heh heh heh hehh.

NISUS: I see. Uh, very good. Very good. Well, out of the door. One--

MR. CHEEKY: Yeah. I know the way. Out of the door.

NISUS: Line on--

MR. CHEEKY: One cross each. Line on the left.

NISUS: Line on the left.

MR. CHEEKY: Heh heh.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Frank Cannon on December 07, 2018, 05:10:29 am
There was a thread the other day about how Elon Musk was going to transform the world.  My bet is that he's dead within two years.  This was one of the ways.

My money is him getting run over by one of his poorly made self driving cars.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: 240B on December 07, 2018, 05:26:25 am
David Carradine ref
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: mountaineer on December 07, 2018, 03:43:31 pm
  A big dose of Fentanyl will put you out painlessly and permanently.  Heck, even a small dose often does it accidentally.
In my region, that usually happens in the front seat of a car with crying children in the back.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Frank Cannon on December 07, 2018, 03:52:58 pm
In my region, that usually happens in the front seat of a car with crying children in the back.

Ah. You live in South Philly.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: mountaineer on December 07, 2018, 07:26:51 pm
Ah. You live in South Philly.
Nope, Appalachia.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: mirraflake on December 07, 2018, 07:52:31 pm
After watchng the electrocution scene in the move The Green Mile = nope.

Had a dog put down last year. Vet went with the blue juice. Doggie just fell asleep then it's heart stopped.  No pain.
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: aligncare on December 07, 2018, 07:58:54 pm
Erotic asphyxiation -- I want to go out hanging by a belt in my closet
With my hand on my dick

Is there anything you would not say here in public?

Signed,
Curious
Title: Re: If you were on death row and were to choose your mode of execution, what would it be?
Post by: Gefn on December 07, 2018, 08:01:56 pm
After watchng the electrocution scene in the move The Green Mile = nope.

Had a dog put down last year. Vet went with the blue juice. Doggie just fell asleep then it's heart stopped.  No pain.

There was an electrocution scene in OZ that was Yeech.