If you had to be executed.....
 

OK, this is a morbid topic I admit but living in Texas where executions are a common thing it has crossed my mind from time to time. The question is, if you had to be executed for whatever reason what method would you choose and why? This isn't about the morality of of the death penalty or if one is innocent or guilty. This is strictly a scenario where you have been sentenced to die and given a choice of any method that has been used historically. Some examples: Drowning, burning at stake, ingesting poison, stoning, decapitation, hanging, firing squad, electric chair, gas chamber, lethal injection. I know, it gives me the willies too but for some reason it crossed my mind and I made a choice. For me, I would choose hanging. The medieval methods, (burning etc.) would just be too horrific. Firing squad is too bloody. Electric chair seems too much like being cooked. Gas chamber makes me nauseaous and lethal injection seems too clinical. I've read that if the noose is positioned right you expire quickly and without pain. Dunno, just seems like the way to go if I had to. Sorry if this topic offends anyone but if you don't cross the line from time to time how do you know where it is?

If I'm gonna go, I'm going out in style. Drawn and quartered, people loved that shit. Yeah, it's gonna hurt like hell but I'll be dead soon after so it's no big thing.

I'm a wussy so I'd take the lethal injection. By the way my last meal would be pussy.

I'll take decapitation. I hear that you are actually still aware for about 3 seconds.

I wonder what I would be thinking...

Probably "Shit! That hurt!"

Hanging, with no hood, with a very large public gathering. I'd want them all to remember the angry look in my eyes before I go.

Given the fact that my neck is damn near 19 inches around at the base though, it sure would suck if it didn't snap clean on the way down...

Lethal injection for me, I'd like them to use some alcohol swab at the injection point, wouldn't want a dying man to get a last minute infection now...

Let us not forget having your intestines slowly hand cranked out of a small hole in your belly with a winch. It gives you a lot of time to curse your enemies and divulge all manner of secrets. It would only last for 25 to 30 feet. I suggest not eating 24 hours before the procedure.

Couple of good suggestions from a Harry Harrison Trilogy. The Orm-Garth, or viper pit. The bloody eagle, where you are put face up on a log, and your ribs are seperated from your sternum one by one, leaving you alive for awhile with your organs exposed. The last is like giant hamburgers, where one end of your intestines is nailed to a post. The faster you walk, the quicker your impending death. Also the more pain. I would prefer to jump out of a plane. I have been bungee jumping and skydiving once each. What a rush. And a 12,000 foot fall should guarantee no pain on landing.

i would want to go out braveheart style. it might be painful as hell, but it would be a long time before anyone forgot it.

There was a soldier in WWII that fell out of a plane during transit with no parachute. He fell something like 20,000 feet and lived for quite a while in the hospital after they found him. He died later but survived the initial landing. In Guiness Book of World Records.

Lethal injection for me. I don't know anything about it, but it seems like it would be the least painfull way to go.

There should be a poll for this thread.

Lethal injection. I'm a wuss.

Lethal injection. Leave a nicer corpse.

Well Redjake, I'll take my chances.

If you want to live from a fall, then grab the grass. When you first hit, all of your bones shatter. You die when you bounce into the air, and then all of your bone splinters puncture your vitals. This was explained to me by an Air Force major with over 7,000 hrs as a flight navigator (mostly A6's).

Lethal injection in my sleep. No pain for me, please.

whatever is the quickest and most painless way.


or maybe-
to suffer long and watch the faces of those who have initiated the execution so that I remember them in passing.

I'd definitely take lethal injection. Hanging could also be quick..unless they wanted to torture you and place the knot in the front so your neck does not break. You would eventually suffocate. I'd like to go in a fast painless way.

one of the fastest, cheapest, and most painless methods is a large caliber bullet in the base of the brain at point blank range while kneeling.
it has worked for China and they save that much more money by having the condemned dig their own grave.

I'd accept the specific method dictated by the will of the people as expressed by law.

Shot out to the vacuum of space, sliced up Cube/Resident Evil style, or frozen with liquid nitrogen and then shattered in a thousand pieces.
These are three of my favorite things.
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/too many movies

Man, I would go out guns blazing. It would be some dramtic scene where I would kiss the beautiful girl and pull out the two Desert Eagles and run in wasting as many guys on the bad guys sideas I could before going down in a hail of fire. And as I lay on the ground the girl comes and says some cheesey line and I'll look up and cough and moan a bit and have the Leader of the bad guys walk up and finish me. I love it when the bad guys win.

Or maybe I'd go down in a huge fist fight... Either way, I want to go down fighting.

Firing squad.

I'll shoot myself in the face.

Out of a plane or Braveheart style.

Right on, Speed_Gibson.

I'd want a professional sharpshooter to put a 762 round right through my medulla oblongata. Nearly instantaneous. (messy but moot).

Rev a F-15E up to after-burner, place it in front of my mother-in-law strapped to a pole and then send me down the #2 engine. Fast AND vengeful.

if it came right down to it, i'd want to be put in a guillotine, face up, so i can see the blade coming, and if i work it just right, perhaps look up at my body before my brain ceases function.


if i'm gonna go, it might as well be interesting.

One word - Explosives

I wanna leave a big 'ol mess.

that brought to mind this little item (270 GIF linked due to size) from my Fark Archives dated 9 April 02 when I saved it.

Crucifixion.

are you that into pain? Death (frequently suffocation) can take days in some cases with that method, and it is that much more painful when you have spikes through the wrists directly below the hands supporting your increasingly heavy weight.

I'll pass on lethal injection. It can cause horrific pain if not done properly.

Read somewhere that its actually a 2 stage process. They first inject a total muscle relaxant into you. Relaxes everything. You can't even scream if you want to. The next chemical that they inject, might actually cause you excruciating pain. But no one will know, because you can't even move an eyelid or make a noise. So everyone is thinking that you're dying a nice peaceful death, but you're actually burning up inside.

Nice eh....


I'll take a shot to the base of my brain.

don't they say that you don't even hear the bullet that kills you? i'm not that into pain so i'd prefer to go that way, dead before you even know it...

put me in a large cage with several hungry wild boars

give me the chance to kill with my bare hands... and then keeping replacing the boars... eventually i would tire, then fall, and then be savaged to death by the boars... who would devour me very quickly.

i want no anaesthetic... i want no last meal...

yall may feast on the boars that i kill...

Hell yea,
I wanna leave a mark on the world. or a stain or whatever.

I was going to say lethal injection -- now I'm not sure. Are sleeping pills allowed?

No, but there's the religious aspect of it.
And that it was very common before christ, but now its not used as much.

To go out in explosive high fashion one could always pick the method in Running Man - your large intestine trailing behind you while you steer a fully gased up jetliner into a building. (the main character did some have cause though as the Network Exec in the targeted office was responsible to an extent for both his wife and daughter dying)

it is a bit painful to think how badly they f*cked up that story on the big screen.

yes it did fall out of favor especially after the Roman Empire crumbled due in no small part to many things that may very likely bring the US down as well.
Peter had an interesting death as he felt he did not deserve to be crucified like Jesus and was hung upside down.

drunk, stoned, and on a bucketload of downers - surely its got to be a pretty painless way to go.

either that, or drowning. apparently (how they know, i dont know), but its meant to be a pretty pleasant way to go, with the mind hallucinating before you die.

either way, neither of them are high on my 'to do' list at the current moment.