Death Penalty Methods - Hanging

This will be the first of my videos on the methods of execution still practiced in the United States. Later I will take up the possibility of a truly painless execution method which has never been - and may well never be used in the US, and the shocking (to some) reason why.

http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?pi=0&ps=20&sf=&sa=0&dm=0&...

The music background, titled "Decay," is by Kevin MacLeod through incompetech.com. The photograph, Gallows," is by Jaime Pérez, under Creative Commons license at flickr.com

My thanks to both for making their work available.

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• death penalty
• hanging
• broken neck
• strangulation
• pain
• suffocation
• agony

[wollin20]

The "funny" thing is that being killed is not in itself (whatever the method) considered as "crual" in the USA...So killing is not crual! Cool to know!

[Largo64]

@wollin20 To my way of thinking, inflicting death on a sentient person is always cruel.

[Largo64]

Respond to this video... Yesterday a likely innocent man was executed by the state of Georgia. Once a person is convicted, the burden of "proof" shifts from the state to the defendant, and appeals cannot present new evidence. They can only try to prove that the original trial was deficient in some way. Troy Davis' lawyers were unable to do that. He was killed because being correct was more important to the SCOTUS than being right. To the court, life is less important than procedure.

[schmui]

@GuyofHimLand "Yeah if you're innocent you're screwed, but it cost more to keep them for life than kill them :)"

this sentence plus even topping it off with a smiley is already fucked up. besides that, what you're saying is completely false. you would know if you didn't only listen to the republican version.

i'm pretty speechless. i just hope you and your kind become infertile soon, so the rather moderate prediction the movie "idiocracy" made won't come true or even be exceeded.

[bekaybe]

top 10 execution countries: China, Iran, North Korea, Yemen, USA, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Bangladesh, Somalia. I'm just thankful I don't live in any of these backward countries.

[wollin20]

@Largo64 That's what I ironically meant: I totally share your opinion.

[wollin20]

@Largo64 You are so sadly right!

[Largo64]

@GuyofHimLand Your belief that execution costs less than lifetime incarceration is simply wrong. In California the death penalty is likely to come on the ballot again because the cost of executing prisoners is so much MORE than keeping them for life. California, like most other states, is nearly bankrupt, and we simply can't afford state revenge anymore. Please read the rest of this comment section.

[GuyofHimLand]

@Largo64 Yeah if you're innocent you're screwed, but it cost more to keep them for life than kill them :)

I saw your deleted video, but I did some research on the state of texas's death penalty. Hanging isn't cruel unless its too low, we use the long drop they get decapitated from too much pressure, so it is unusual. And if they used more harmful or executions that cause more pain, crime rates may decrease more quickly. The electric chair is not cruel whatsoever in my belief but it is unusual.