ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die in the 1988 murder-for hire slaying of Elizabet…
The button that activates these execution methods - lethal injection, electric chairs, etc - are not placed so the executioner can see or hear the event. It’s abstracted to a single switch
In firing squad executions, it became common to randomly assign only a couple weapons with live cartridges, the rest with blanks, because it turns out to be very difficult to look at a human being and fire, and the possibility of one having a blank round meant they could walk away and tell themselves their gun just went click
These days though, with how frothing chuds are, I’m sure you’d find volunteers, which is fucking grim
Funnily enough america and Nazi Germany encountered similar situations where they figure out people have a hard time shooting other people and switch to “cleaner” methods of murder. Nazi Germany was on a larger scale, but the same logic had the Holocaust evolve from machine gunning people to the gas chambers. Now america has their own gas chambers.
In a weird way, our fucked up execution methods were an attempt by past progressives to make executions less gratuitous, and every single thing we’ve come up with in order to do that has been worse (from a “causing unnecessary pain” standpoint) than firing squads and guillotines.
Ya I feel super ignorant, but I sorta wonder why Amerika doesn’t do a firing squad anymore.
Guilt.
The button that activates these execution methods - lethal injection, electric chairs, etc - are not placed so the executioner can see or hear the event. It’s abstracted to a single switch
In firing squad executions, it became common to randomly assign only a couple weapons with live cartridges, the rest with blanks, because it turns out to be very difficult to look at a human being and fire, and the possibility of one having a blank round meant they could walk away and tell themselves their gun just went click
These days though, with how frothing chuds are, I’m sure you’d find volunteers, which is fucking grim
Funnily enough america and Nazi Germany encountered similar situations where they figure out people have a hard time shooting other people and switch to “cleaner” methods of murder. Nazi Germany was on a larger scale, but the same logic had the Holocaust evolve from machine gunning people to the gas chambers. Now america has their own gas chambers.
The Nazis got their gas chamber idea from the Americans. Gas chamber executions were very common in the early 20th century in the US
In a weird way, our fucked up execution methods were an attempt by past progressives to make executions less gratuitous, and every single thing we’ve come up with in order to do that has been worse (from a “causing unnecessary pain” standpoint) than firing squads and guillotines.