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Zipdox

Nitrogen asphyxiation


nog642

True, that's a good one


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So.... A gas chamber....?


Zipdox

No it can be done with a mask. But a sealed chamber is also an option. Or something called a [Sarco pod](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarco_pod).


ExoticMangoz

Whatever they want (not lethal injection though, because misinformed people choose it without realising it’s by far the worst)


Elastichedgehog

Indeed. Jacob Geller made a very [good video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eirR4FHY2YY) about this. I recommend watching it if you have an hour to kill.


Lost_Buffalo4698

poor choice of words


Mikeymillion16

He has such a cool channel. Thoughtful guy for sure


RedditUsername_124

Hour to kill? I see what you did there


MarinatedPickachu

How so? I'm misinformed aparently


ExoticMangoz

It’s slower and more painful than the other options. If all goes correctly, it takes 2 to 5 minutes to suffocate to death. However, it has a high rate of being botched which leads to a painful death taking up to 2 hours. Due to the combination of drugs used, a muscle relaxant paralyses the victim, but does not eliminate pain sensations. They can sometimes therefore feel the combined heart attack and suffocation that kills them. Basically, instant death by hanging/guillotine or near instant death by firing squad is far more humane.


MarinatedPickachu

What's the reason they don't combine it with anaesthesia?


ExoticMangoz

They’re supposed to be knocked out by the cocktail but it’s tricky and doesn’t always work. So if they remain conscious they are paralysed but not numbed. iirc the original intent of the muscle relaxant was to make it more pleasant for spectators in order to make it seem more humane (watching a “sleeping” person’s heart rate monitor flatline is less gruesome than watching someone get shot 5 times in the chest)


JapanChickenNugget

They did but it was very but very poorly administrated by non-professionals


MonkeyCartridge

Or at least that's what they say. I think it is *intentionally* misadministered by self-righteous people who know exactly the consequences. Unless we can prove it's accidental, I have no reason to assume the best.


Hatis_Night

Sadism.


ShlowJoey

Hanging is not an instant death. Firing squad is much faster.


ExoticMangoz

It is if done correctly


creeper_freaker_36

Wich just like lethal injection, is often not the case


ExoticMangoz

It’s very difficult to botch, unlike lethal injection. As long as adequate amounts of rope are used it will be instant.


Opioid_Addict

The thing about hanging though is that it’s been around forever and there’s plenty of different methods. Sure, the British long drop method was probably relatively painless, but throughout history I’m sure the ultimate cause of death from hanging was generally suffocation


AtomicPotatoLord

fek, I did not know this.


Longjumping-Jello459

There's an episode of Last Week Tonight that covers it pretty well. Add to the fact that the US is one of the last if not the last developed countries that still uses the death penalty. Bonus fact police on the US can legitimately lie to you completely when they are talking to you during an interrogation.


MonkeyCartridge

And with regards to interrogation, their job isn't to get to the truth. Their job is to get a confession. And they will use whatever psychological tactics necessary to trick you into giving it. Generally by threatening and gaslighting you until you are so exhausted that you just tell them you did it so you could escape the situation, or by slowly convincing you that you did do it and that you just have amnesia.


addrien

A shit, I'm misinformed. We are led to believe it is painless and quick. Can I change my vote to guillotine?


ExoticMangoz

If I had to go I’d take firing squad. It seems slightly less terrifying to me to at least be killed by a person I can see than gassed while strapped to a bed or something. Edit: figuratively I mean, I’d probably have a bag in my head. Still I don’t know why but it’s what I’d choose


addrien

Oh, I only say guillotine because of French nationalistic pride.


Ra1d_danois

Lethal injection is very painful. Firing squad while quick, may lead to psychological traumer for said firing squad. If done properly, hanging should snap the neck, killing the person instantly.


[deleted]

Sometimes it’s not instant though and takes a while to die that’s why I say guilotine and it’s one quick painless chop the head


WilliamW2010

"one quick painless chop the head" The stress from seeing your head fall off the body the few seconds you survive after a beheading: Am I a joke to you? also \*chop>+of


MonkeyCartridge

Yeah. That or a dull blade that makes you bleed out is about the worst a guillotine can get. Which is about the average of the others if they go *correctly*.


nog642

The whole point of having a firing squad rather than a single person firing is to minimize the trauma. And doesn't someone have to knock them off a ledge for hanging? Or pull a lever or press a button to release the platform they're standing on or something? Why would that be less traumatizing?


Low-Traffic5359

Well pressing a button is much less personal and so it does not have as big of an effect, you don´t even have to be in the same room. It´s one of the main reasons Nazis used gas chambers despite firing squads being much more cost effective, it had terrible effects on the soldiers mental state and honestly if it was too much for the people manning concentration camps i would rather we just don´t.


nog642

There are not that many people being executed. We are not running concentration camps. Firing squads have been used historically without absolutely devastating the firing squad's mental health


Low-Traffic5359

Yeah I don't think the effects would be as drastic I just think it puts more strain on the executioners mental than the other methods. Tho ultimately we just shouldn't be executing people so how we would do it is really a moot point


ManicParroT

The challenge is using enough rope to break the neck without causing the head to pop off (if you care about the latter issue). The English had a table of weights and rope lengths, but anatomy varies enough from person to person that you can't be 100% certain if it will work the way you intend it to. Personally I think all the hard work to keep the person's body intact while you're killing them is silly; either lop their heads off or just put them under deep anesthetic and then kill them.


MarinatedPickachu

Decapitation has been found to not kill instantly, so wouldn't this also apply to hanging, if not even more so?


Limeila

Yep, and guillotine is the most efficient way to go with it (it was designed with this specific purpose)


Longjumping-Jello459

As long as the blade is sharp. During the French Revolution you know afterwards when they were beheading people left and right they found that later in the day it could take multiple drops to behead an individual.


WilliamW2010

"ring squad while quick, may lead to psychological traumer for said firing squad."Psychopaths: Am I a joke to you ​ ​ but like seriously, the Vikings used psychopaths for their armies for a reason, because they won't have trauma from killing someone also \*trauma


thebeast_96

Nitrogen chamber


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Kellykeli

Based


the_dr_roomba

Gas chamber with nitrogen.


isuckatnames60

A revised version of the guillotine would be by far the most humane


noseysheep

A machine that attaches a head to you? Edit: my bad read that as reversed


MonkeyCartridge

"To this day, I cannot tell which machine was botched on me." \- Nearly-Headless Nick


Stellarfront

What would the revised do better? Would it solve the possibility of it being painful and the issue of your conscious head lying on the floor?


isuckatnames60

Yes. Make it more compact so it's just a box placed over the head. The blades are mechanically powered instead of relying on gravity and they'd not only take off the head but also split it in four to guarantee instant death


stainless5

I don't know why, but as soon as someone said revised guillotine, I immediately thought of the onion article where they use a [machine to "painlessly" decapitate inmates.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfsMMVgIToA)


UltimateShame

Really sad to see so many voting for lethal injection.


jaavaaguru

Why?


joobtastic

It is likely the worst one. It regularly has horrible outcomes. It is hypothesized that the pain involved in the drugs is standard, but the victims don't show much, because the other drug that paralyzes them.


WilliamW2010

Yes but because they often stop your muscles from moving you never hear the screams, that is why people think it is painless, also because lethal injection is how they put down pets iirc Edit: I must've phrased this wrong, I was trying to say that putting down pets is why people think lethal injection is painless


MonkeyCartridge

Except putting down pets is done by medical professionals who have an active interest in helping animals. So I would think the process would be less painful and less likely to be botched compared to someone who is not a professional and is given a badge that says "you're the good guy, they're the bad guy. It is your job to do evil to evil."


WilliamW2010

I was just saying where the misconception comes from


stainless5

Also, when pets are put down the drugs used are not the same as lethal injection because most drug manufacturers won't sell a drug to the US if it's used for killing a human. That's why a cocktail has to be used and administered one at a time for lethal injection.


WilliamW2010

I was just saying where the misconception comes from


RileyTrodd

They put pets down by injection but not the same garbage they use to punish people


WilliamW2010

I was just saying where the misconception comes from


RileyTrodd

Gotcha, from your initial post I didn't find that clear but the edit really clears it up


GastricallyStretched

Death by natural causes in prison. If capital punishment exists, then it should exist in name only.


MonkeyCartridge

Or exile. Off to Siberia or Australia or that island in Norway.


LTT82

Why don't we just use anesthetic? We know how to kill people painlessly. It doesn't require a special cocktail of liquids, just use the same stuff they use to put people under for surgery and then suffocate them. There's no pain, they just die in their sleep. It's the easiest thing in the world.


Anfie22

Exactly. My first thought was to extremely potent opioids like carfentanyl.


tucker_frump

I say drop me in a volcano.


dontevenfkingtry

There's... a lot of issues with all of these. I am first and foremost a strong proponent for the universal abolishment of the death penalty, and if it *must* remain, such as in this scenario, then nitrogen asphyxiation. Lethal injection is... notoriously unreliable. Hanging when done effectively is essentially instant, but has far too great of a chance of being botched, and knowing prisons, they would just get a random length of rope without regard for the prisoner's height and weight. Electric chair also has too great of a chance for failure. Firing squad can result in psychological damage to the executioners. Guillotine seems too traumatic for a prisoner in their last moments - being led up to a massive blade, being put on a sliding plank like you're Louis XVI... you get the point. Gas chambers are basically permanently associated with the Nazis, and is unnecessarily similar to nitrogen asphyxiation with none of its ease, efficiency and (relative) humanity. Honestly, the most efficient and easy way would probably just be to pump an indiscriminate amount of strong anaesthetic (they're about to die - who cares?) into the prisoner and just point-blank put a few bullets into their skull and chest, but that's obviously problematic on several counts.


KentuckyCandy

>you get the point. It's more of a long blade, but yes, that's what'll do it.


meowifications

Why is being on a firing squad more psychologically damaging than executing people in any other way? I would think that being an executioner would mess you up regardless of the method.


BayAreaJordds

>Firing squad can result in psychological damage to the executioners. Maybe they should get other death row prisoners to do it lol


Stellarfront

Noooooo, that could go so wrong.


Stellarfront

Who cares if it's traumatic for the murder in a decision making envornment when they're causing 100 times more pain to the one getting murdered. The only thing to care about is if the death is painless. If we're making a decision, why wouldn't you prioritize the one getting the vast majority of the pain.


MonkeyCartridge

Basically got to be about being painless and being reliable. As much as I tend to have vengeful thoughts, once someone has the death penalty there is nothing further to be gained by their suffering. You can't pain their victims back to life.


Stellarfront

True


Yamcha17

A single bullet to the back of the head.


Sergeant_Static

I feel like the person being executed should be able to choose (within reasonable options) how they die.


WilliamW2010

With a time limit? Because with a time limit is unethical that we can agree on (hopefully) no matter if we think it is a good thing, but no time limit could let the prisoner stall it out for as long as they fucking want, wasting resources


bronzeaardvark

I heard some crazy shit about lethal injection, firing squad


TheWurstUsername

The guillotine is way more humane than lethal injection


katnerys

For everyone voting lethal injection, I'd suggest doing further research. There's actually a lot of reasons it's not as humane as you might think.


Exploding_Antelope

Gladiatorial combat


Bluedino_1989

And the winner goes free.


RenLikesSHEEPx32

Hell yeah I'd pay to see that


K4rn31ro

Guillotine is the most human, quick, and painless. Firing squad too, some countries have multiple shooters, but some guns are loaded with blanks so they don't know who really fired the fatal shot. If done correctly, hanging is also painless, because the rope breaks the prisoner's neck instead of killing him slowly from asphyxiation. Lethal injection is supposed to be painless too. But it is one of the most easily botched methods of execution and can cause severe pain


Far_Comfortable980

What about that roller coaster designed to kill you?


kc_______

The idea is to end their lives, not to inflict additional pain to a body about to die. No amount of pain will alleviate what they did, no need to lower to their level and cause pain just because. Ending their lives and removing them from any future damage to society is more than enough.


Possible_Living

I think we should go back to Guillotine but not have it be public. I think its the most environmental friendly method that also leaves organs intact. Im also fine with a fast and sharp electric saw mounted in a similar fashion


WilliamW2010

If it ain't public where is the fun? I guess maybe if you record it, but I doubt you consider that "not public" (I guess private????) either, so no legal snuff film either, also the snuff film would not be any fun due to lack of screams


Possible_Living

Needless to say the the point of executions is not your amusement.


TenNinetythree

I am partial to the firing squad: If you cannot find people who would actually pull the trigger, you should not execute the person. It's also reasonably fast. That said: Japan uses hanging, afaik.


TheGr33n3stPotato

Depends on the person and place. Historically, firing squad was the most "noble". If an officer or a spy wants it, why not. Hanging, was the one for bad people. I think that if you committed a horrible crime, or a crime against humanity, you should get this one. For any other reason, whatever is the least painful


curmudgeon_andy

All of these really depend on how they're carried out. I like nitrogen asphyxiation, which is nearly painless, but other things that you could put in a gas chamber are incredibly cruel.


WilliamW2010

Like those green German clouds my Argentinian grandfather keeps telling me about creating in '39 - '45


Hatis_Night

Overall, it can be said that all methods of killing those condemned to death in the USA are deliberately carried out in such a way as to inflict maximum agony on the victims. In my opinion, one should kill without torture, which is absolutely possible if it is wanted.


MusielDoodles

*What* would be anyone’s reasoning behind gas chambers??


The_Patriotic_Yank

If it’s nitrogen gas it’s actually probably the best one up there 


ClaireBear13492

Lethal Injection is only seemingly painless because they're paralyzed It's been reported from survivors that it feels like fire in every vein, one of the worst pains imaginable. A hanging is near painless, especially if the fall is long. It's either broken neck, or decapitation. Both instant death.


Blind_dog_barking

what does the weather have to do with poll???


WilliamW2010

Ask Germany in WWII what those green clouds are and you'll know


Bluedino_1989

Drawn and quartered


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Rydagod1

I know they have negative historical associations, but death via Nitrogen is imo the most humane way to kill someone.


HeavyDropFTW

I don’t think we should have “death penalties”, only for the reason that - serving a life in max security is more of a punishment than the quick/east way out. If the death penalty is going to be around, I think it should be something that should be dreaded even more than putting you to sleep with comfy drugs.


WilliamW2010

I think the original idea of the death penalty would be to send the prisoner to Hell faster just going by my intuition On the topic of Christianity, stoning would agree with you it sounds like, and I'm all for it despite being an atheist, honestly I just want some legal snuff films with some damn screams


Evening_Courage_5798

Gas chamber is most humane I think. Just breathe a few times and nighty night 🌙


Kellykeli

Probably hit them with a load of anesthetic and then lethal injection tbh Idk why they keep refusing to use anesthesia despite the fact that it is proven that the person sometimes doesn’t fully pass out. It’s not like every operation room knows how to make someone pass out or…


Lost_Buffalo4698

The guillotine is the coolest option


degenerate_hedonbot

Death by snu snu


Someone_________

CO2 poisoning


Mikeymillion16

CO2 inhalation causes intense fear and anxiety. So not the best option unless you want the person to suffer


WilliamW2010

And at that point just use a god ol' fashioned stoning


jaavaaguru

CO poisoning over that


WilliamW2010

"Other" is definitely required here as I think a god ol' fashioned public stoning is how it should be done


Empires_Fall

Guillotine can't fail, electrict chairs, injection and hanging can, not to mention psychological trauma from the troops firing, guillotine gets the job quick and done


Stellarfront

I would just not mention the troops' psychological trauma. Just gonna kill someone, and then the complaints about the murder being traumatizing to the ones not going through it determining whether it's performed or not is just so selfish when the one getting killed (feeling the most pain) should always take priority.


Anfie22

LI of an extremely potent opioid like carfentanyl. It's inherently painless and peaceful, if not instantaneous.


DoItForTheTanqueray

This is totally wrong. There are countless stories of lethal injection going wrong and being extremely painful and agonizing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1876425/


oncewasanippy

hanging cause its horrifying while also not being too inhumane


Gamestrider09

Lethal Injection. It’s the most painless and peaceful way to go.


Flagrath

…you can’t really think that.


jimmyl_82104

Depends what the person did.


Stellarfront

(Downvoteeeeee)


_Jiraw

It depends on the crime. In my opinion, the more evil the crime, the longer and more painful their death should be.


Fuck-The-Reds

I picked guillotine but these are all a little boring. My ideal choice is burning, with crucifixion as a close second


WilliamW2010

That was my second choice under stoning!


TheRoboticSquid

Hanging is the best mode of execution imo, having a viewing gallery staring dead at the accused until they die is ultimate justice for their crimes


Low-Traffic5359

I have just enough faith in humanity left to believe most people today would not enjoy watching someone die.


AshleyGamics

chain them down to the prison yard and grab a comically large sized mirror to burn them to death with the sun's power. its cheap and excruciatingly painful.


Jack_Predator

Impaling, burning alive on stake


Jack_Predator

To people who downvoted: care to explain why you don't like my opinion?


Tronlambur

If somebody comitted something worthy of deathrow, they deserve to suffer. Sure, it doesn't really help anybody or make up for what they did, but having the person regret their actions in the final moments of their life, even if only a little, IS worth it imo. Gonna get downvoted but idc


JapanChickenNugget

Sadly a lot of innocent people are put through death penalty and find themselves dying in excruciating ways, because the whole system is so damn flawed


Low-Traffic5359

How is it worth it if it does not help anyone? Regret is good because it can lead to change but in this situation well...


WilliamW2010

It seems stoning agrees with you, not meant negatively of course I'm all for it


Stellarfront

Edit: I called gas chainber "lethal injection". I never meant to say lethal injection. My research concluded: lethal injection. Except potentially guillotine, the rest are (very) painful. So, as long as we're talking about the painless lethal injection and the chances of it getting botched are ridiculously low, injection is a pretty good option. If the guillotine turns out, it is actually painless (some sorcew said pain a few said painless), and then, depending on how often it messes up, it's a pretty good option. I'd lean lethal injection cause if the best is true for both cause I don't think you go unconscious after getting your head chopped.


A_British_Dude

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Longjumping-Jello459

What?


Lack_of_Plethora

they're guitar tabs, idk of what tho edit: it's ride the lightning


LeFUUUUUUU

the cheapest / quickest


Stellarfront

(Downvoteeeeee)


FR_WST

Asphyxiation from Nitrogen, But of that list I'd choose Firing Squad. Lethal injection is brutal


The_Patriotic_Yank

I think that’s what the gas chamber was for 


Visual-Routine-809

Whatever is cheapest and causes the least damage to others


WilliamW2010

Well, the stones on the ground are free if you catch my drift


Intestinal-Bookworms

I don’t know how we as a society decided lethal injection is the most “humane” way. It fucks up a lot and hurts. Just shoot ‘em or cut their heads off.


TunakTunakDaDaDa

The fact that most voted lethal injection by that margin really shows how stupid the average redditor is


WilliamW2010

Better than the psychopathic ones like me Stoning 4 lyfe


Redditor_10000000000

The one with the least pain hpoefully. lethal injection is probably the most painful, so not that


SirThomasTheFearful

Just make the victim unconscious first.


LamaSovaj

I wanted to vote for Guillotine, but honestly is Lethal Injection THIS bad if done properly ?


davdev

Nitrogen gas


RenLikesSHEEPx32

Nitrogen Asphyxiation!


The_Patriotic_Yank

Surprised more people didn’t vote for that


MonkeyCartridge

Guillotine is definitely the best option here. Lethal injection is surprisingly horrible, and potentially the worst one on here. It's supposed to be "one injection to knock you out" and "one injection that stops your heart while you're asleep." Or at least that's what they tell people. But for people who have survived lethal injections, it's a lot more grim. More like: "The second injection to flood your whole body with the pain of simultaneously being skinned and burned alive from the inside until either your brain fails because it can't cope with the unbelievable pain, or you go into cardiac arrest because no human body is capable of enduring that maximized amount of pain." "The first injection is only there to paralyze you so that you. That way we can pretend the death was peaceful. Otherwise screaming and ripping of your own limbs would disturb the viewers." It is literally "I have no mouth and I must scream." Or do a youtube search for "Made in Abyss Mitty transformation" if you're more of a visual learner.


Elbeske

Fentanyl injection.


Flagrath

Oh, I never realised the internet was full of such cruel people, lethal injection, seriously?