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.

One hit of LSD, decapitation by a guillotine with my head dropping directly into a catapult, which immediately launches me into a giant vat of multicolor jello.

Yes, I've honestly come up with this before reading this thread.

You'd be knocked right the fuck out on impact. No need to worry about living or dieing, because you would be a vegatable anyways.

"death by snew snew..." <- to all the futurama fans around the globe :)

Somehow i dont think that that will ever happen so i think i will go with the whole bottle of sleeping tablets if i were forced to chose a fate.

lol!

Exactly what I was thinking.

I've always said I don't want to get old... So I've thought of skydiving w/o a parachaut (sp?) once I turn 50 or so.

So.. I'd say that's the way I'd like it If I had a choice.

the nazi's used to gullitone ppl like this if im not mistaken

lets not forget the ways ppl were killed in the movie 'seven'
eating till your stomach exploded
fuked with a knife
skinned alive(and still alive)

ill take the injection...im a wuss....last way i wanna go is to be buried alive with lots of air

I'd want to go out in a huge explosion. I'm talking like a 2000 pound bomb is detonated with me standing next to it. I wonder if you even know what happened...

probably a sniper shooting me in the forehead from far away so i dont know that its coming but its gonna kill be instantly.

Slim Pickens style from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

I think that if I had a choice, I would like to bleed to death. I wouldn't want to drown or burn, as I think that would lead to a panicky death. I know this sounds morbid, but I kinda want the time to have my "final death thoughts"... getting shot by a sniper in the head and not even knowing that I am dead would kinda piss me off. And yes, I realize that makes no sense :D

"In my sleep, like my grandfather. Definitely not screaming and yelling like his passengers."

I think I would like to embrace death the same way I embrace life. Probably involve lots of drugs and alcohol. Also would love to be surrounded by hot women wearing little to nothing gyrating and dancing around to cool music.

Y'know- like a normal Saturday night.

John Belushi/Chris Farley style? (admittedly more suicide than exectution though) Second part not quite the same though as there was only callgirl that was with Farley before he died who was the last person to see him alive.

Dr. Strangelove, anyone?

I'll take sexed to death, preferably by 5 or 6 gorgeous women. Failing that i'd take a single woman. If that doesn't work then I guess the bullet in the base of the brain thing. But I'd really prefer the sex...

I have thought about the parachute death as well. Just close my eyes and let myself go. I would have my last thoughts of my life pass through my mind. There is so little time to think, so the most important thoughts in your head would surface. Prolly think about my family and friends. I would think about what I have achieved in life and prepare myself for the what I will achieve in death. Since I am probably going to hell anyways, I would mentally prepare to pull out some kung-fu on would be demons, devils and what not. lol

I would go with lethal injection the easy way out. The guillotine has always scared me. And I wonder when your head drops in the basket if your eyes are open do they stay that way or do they close? Hanging isn't for me either just couldn't do it. I'm not really sure what my last meal would be. I will have to think about that.

What are the choices? Do I have pick from "traditional" methods?

If I had to pick a modern execution, it would probably be the electric chair - without a hood preferably...the goal being the most violent, blood-curdling, gruesome, way I can go...I mean if you know you have to die...go out with a "bang" right?

I don't even want to think about it!

Well as far as lethal injection goes, I don't see any way that anyone could know for sure. That really goes for all methods of death actually. I mean its not like people survive to tell what it was like. Unless you count those that have been clinically resuscitated, and as far as I know, that's never happened with lethal injection.

About the parachute thing, that has always actually scared the fuck out of me. I would never ever do that for one simple reason. You have time to change your mind. You get halfway down and think "Oh fuck what have I done?", but you can't go back then, and that would be the absolute worst feeling imaginable. Also, I don't know whether or not any of you are familiar with "Dead" Mike Vederman or not, but his story is incredible. He was skydiving when his parachute completely malfunctioned and he ended up freefalling approximately 180 feet.....onto concrete. He broke damn nearly every single bone in his body, and lost a shitload of blood, and about twenty pounds of fat and muscle. But he actually made a full recovery. True story. But still, fuck the freefalling thing.

Also a note on the guillotine. In medieval times they conducted experiments with the condemned. They asked each person that was to be executed to try to give them some sort of facial sign to indicated that they were still concious after being decapitated. While I personally think I would have tried to muster a sly wink, the most they ever got were heads whose mouths would slowly gape open. Now I don't know about you, but that would freak me the fuck out. So apparently, either you do remain conscious briefly, or that was just some strange reaction.

All that being said, my response is I would bite the bullet.

From your mouth to God's ears my firend...

I would want to b executed like a rat get eat up by a bigo pussy

firing squad- to the torso, so I know I am dead, but not so painful or prolonged as some of the others....

If I'm gonna die, i'm going to have fun while doing it. I would want go skydiving just without a parachute. I've only gone skydiving once before but I had a great time, so if i'm going to die, I'm going to at least have a little excitement while doing it.

Gladitorial combat.

Nobody should just lay down and die.

I'm with ripsaw, I want to go down swinging a broadsword in the middle of a massive melee on a grassy battlefield. Let me take some people out when I finally take a flail to the side of the head. Man, that would be great.

I know that's never going to happen, so I've always wanted to jump off a very large cliff, that few seconds of freedom, where you're really flying with no worries in the world, till you hit the ground. "I don't know what could be better than/ A swan dive into the asfault."

I want a crowd tho, give the masses something to talk about.

I'd want to die fighting; I can't imagine "letting" myself be executed and have my life end by choice. Whether it be by fists or guns, I'd have to give the best struggle I could to avoid death.