What happens during an execution on the 'Electric Chair' ?

[daletiger35]

Ain't no reason not to still use it.

[6587567651]

I love how this moron babbles on about how "inhumane" it is to allow the prisoner to piss all over himself.

You wanna talk about about inhumane? I'll tell what's inhumane: Strapping a guy in a freaking chair and killing him with electricity! Now THAT'S INHUMANE!

This guy is a freaking psychopath. Or a very sick individual. More likely both, though.

[fluffycheep]

This guy is so matter of fact. Ruthless human being!

[MLFreese]

This guy is a badass.

[harpstrings1060]

Was this guy born with a heart? if he was, who took it out? :-(

[jony1495]

pls tell me this is a joke u sick bastard

[blindowls55]

huh huh huh huh huh. drip pan.

[crissy214]

put them in a diaper

[DAngelo136]

@crissy214 They do...the condemned prisoner is issued an adult diaper. In Great Britain, after a particularly grisly execution by hanging of a woman who may have been mestruating at the time, the practice of issuing a set of absorbant "knickers" was established. There is no easy or absolutely "clean" way of killing a human being.

[StyrbjornStarke]

Helluva job but somebodys gotta do it

[TheEliteNinja2012]

Dear Fred A. Leuchter,

You are on sick, sick, motherfucking piece of shit.

Sincerely,

Humanity

[curandero88]

no volume, damnit

[TheSchemer1]

Id rather be shot in the head thanks very much.

[jrwel14]

freddie knows nothing. He said that he helped 3 states with their execution facilities. 2 never heard of him and the 1 in Missouri was never built.

[knutgordon]

@jrwel14

It quikly become clear that freddie was not a "manufacturer of the electric chair" nor "gass chambers expert" by any stretch of imigitation He did build some lethal injection machines though, that said machines turned out to be defective should come as no surprise.

[electroexecutoide]

@jrwel14 The Missouri lethal injection system was built by Leuchter; Bill Armontrout and Paul Delo confirm this in The Execution Protocol - a film/documentary by Stephen Trombley.

[hollymatterson]

"The electric chair is a very inhumane thing."

Well, murder is a very inhuman thing too, Pee Wee Herman guy in the video. When someone in your family gets murdered you will have a different outlook.

[MikeB4242]

He is out to make execution more humain because as a young man he, himself was executed

[Sunduals]

I cant hear a fucking thing this guy said, and I have the volume all the way up.

[MSM4U2POM]

@Sunduals

"I can't hear a fucking thing this guy said" etc.

Lucky for you. Fred Leuchter once turned up in court pretending to be a 'gas chamber expert'. He couldn't answer the most basic questions, and the judge described his knowledge as 'little better than a common tourist'. That's the kind of towering intellect you're not listening to.

[Banjerman07]

@electroexecutoid Ive done alot of reserch on this guy, for a paper in a college class. He did say that during a execution, the chair needs to reach 2,000 volts to kill. He set the one in Tennessee to kick on for 1750 for 20 sec and then to kick off and then kick back on for 15 seconds with 2100 volts i think. Hes been regarded one of the best enginers to work in the particular field of execution. He seems to really know what hes doin, i wonder if he ever gets any contracts with prisons now?

[knutgordon]

@Banjerman07

Problem was that he was not an engineer, he had a degree in art. Leuchter signed a consent agreement admitting that he had misrepresented himself as an cheief engineer toward the correctional facilities.Out of work in the death cell business since then. The electric chairs of decades past were largely old homemade affairs "rehabbed" by quacks like this guy and it showed -sometimes you could obtain equally humane results by simply setting the condemned on fire.

[electroexecutoide]

@Banjerman07 Leuchter hasn't had any work in this field since he basically denied the holocaust. Even though he wasn't qualified in "execution technology", as he puts it, nobody is. Consultant anaesthetists could easily devise and conduct a flawless and humane lethal injection, but they aren't allowed to.

Throughout the 100+ year-long history of electric chair executions, nobody has ever known what they're doing. The fact that states vary so much in their methods proves this.

[myastroflight]

Thousands of people make things that they know kill people.

This guy is no different. He just makes stuff. At least his stuff is has only one purpose.

What about a car manufacturer who puts a car on the road that he KNOWS has a serious fault and will kill people, and does, or a drug company that puts out drugs that kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and it's covered up.

THEY are the bad guys.

[jimmyreed112]

@myastroflight youre a cretin! do you realise how stupid what youve just said is? if a car manufacturer put a car on the road with a serious fault then they would get sued by a lot of people. ever heard of toyota? if a drug was killing hundreds of thousands of people than a; we wouldve heard of it and b; they would make no money

[Charbok001]

@electroexecutoid Hmm...

And what happens if we reduce the time of the first shock? and then decrease the current to 500V and 3 amps?

[Charbok001]

@electroexecutoid

So, all the juice thrown to Daryl Holton, wasn't enough to kill him?

I think he died in the autopsy.

Yeah, they should raise the current to 10 amps, and 2,500 volts that will be lethal.