You see stories of people getting accidentally electrocuted in everyday life and dropping dead instantly, why aren’t electric chairs engineered with that amount of power?
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The electric chairs that were used are 2000 volts. They deliberately put the electrodes on your head and leg. Your body and your brain run on electricity. The second the switch is turned on and you get the juice, your brain is completely overwhelmed by the high voltage and current and you immediately cease to be a thinking entity. Your brain is off for all intents and purposes. After that, it’s just a question of how long it takes to stop the heart. But it really doesn’t matter how long it takes, because your brain is not active. Its’ fried.
If you really wanted to kill people faster, you would put the electrodes on each arm, insuring a direct path through the heart. When you see people who have been shocked and they instantly go limp, you know the shock went through their heart and stopped it. The problem with this method is that before your heart actually stopped, it would be extremely painful, since your brain would still be active. At least for a moment. So scrambling your brain, seems to be the most humane way to electrocute someone.
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