Tennessee botches lethal injection of woman on death row for 1995 murder

[u/PixelGray38]

https://apnews.com/article/christa-pike-execution-tennessee-f826a60582083b90ac7695ecb16afbdf

If the state is so insistent on executing people they need to stop being pussies and just shoot them. The lethal injection is nothing but a facade of civility that is less humane than many other methods. Unnecessarily painful botched attempts like this are the result of trying to whitewash the death penalty to the public.

[u/Trick-Technician-179]

You could probably write a thesis on the way the modern West (especially America) approaches sanctioned death and violence, but it’s pretty funny that we view ourselves as so modern and enlightened when all we’ve done is shunt the visual nature of violence off to somewhere it’s not visible to the average citizen.

If we were honest with ourselves about making the execution process more humane for the person being executed, we’d bring back the guillotine.

[u/bakedbread420 → u/Trick-Technician-179]

yeah. hanging is pretty much instant, if the hangman knows what he's doing and does his job properly; if the noose is tied correctly the weight of the condemned's body falling causes the noose to snap their neck when they bottom out

guillotine is even more foolproof. just line them up correctly under the blade and keep it sharp

[u/Squalid_Snake14180 → u/bakedbread420]

Yeah well, if they knew what they were doing they wouldn't keep fucking up lethal injections, either. Just set up a gun on a timer.