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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Oh no! We accidentally melted this serial child rapists face off totally by accident! Anyways… Whos next on the list? And could somebody please get the hose?
I joke, but the cruelty was kind of the point. Electrocution replaced hanging in 1888 as it was more ‘humane’, or at least that was the excuse given. The very first electrocution was a horror show and it certainly wasn’t the last example of cruel and unusual punishment via electrocution. The fact that it was widely adopted after the first botched attempt tells you what you need to know. To answer your question, they don’t kill people instantly because they’re not supposed to. Making it more instant would be a waste of electricity.
You’ll never find an assisted suicide method that uses electrocution despite how ‘humane’ it is supposed to be. Oxygen displacement is generally considered painless and peaceful.
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