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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Electric chairs were incredibly effective, provided that the equipment and training was performed to specification. So now ask yourself….at what prisons are death row guards and executioners trained to a high standard? And who has the most engineer qualified electric chair?
The same problem exists with lethal injection or hanging. If the people doing the job are not properly trained and drilled with the appropriate materials, it turns into a shit show more often than it should.
The electric chair should be reserved for people like Bundy, who bragged and lied about why he drug young girls into the woods before strangling them and ineffectively mounting them with his tiny organ. They did the procedure right in Florida. They taped his mouth. They taped his eyes. They stuffed all sorts of cotton balls up his butt. They wet the sponge on top of his head, strapped the contact to the top of his head, and they let him have it with all sorts of juice. He didn’t last long and mess was minimal.
All that said, i am opposed to the death penalty in most cases because the system of justice in this country has been fucked up since the founding. Prosecutorial misconduct, police misconduct, inaccurate eye witness perceptions, and various other issues have convicted far too many people of capital crimes for me to be satisfied with a jury deciding a particular loser should bite it.
unfortunately, the extreme exceptions make me reluctant to advocate a total ban.
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