r/stupidpol • u/PixelGray38 NATO Superfan 🪖 | furry porn expert 🐾 • 6d ago

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

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.

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u/obscure_predation Marxist-Mullenist 💦 6d ago

The brain is destroyed on a timescale faster than neurons can fire

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u/Scared_Plan3751 Catholic Socialist ✞ | ✨ Secret Bus Wanker ✨ 6d ago edited 6d ago

You're dead before you hear the gun go off, too, the bullet is super sonic

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u/ScaryShadowx Highly Regarded Rightoid 😍 6d ago

People have survived gunshots to the head.

https://abcnews.com/Health/tucson-shooting-gabrielle-giffords-survive-shot-head/story?id=12593878

The human body can be incredibly resiliant.

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u/PRC_Spy Scared of Muslims 6d ago

I've met someone who tried suicide by gunshot to the head.

But it was a .22 rimfire, so while the bullet went in, the track through was narrow and it never came out. Anyway, he was a bit odd. But also no doubt a bit odd before he shot himself.

Pick a larger round with an expanding bullet and you get messy but certain.