They hang you old school style:
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/201 … 3000c.html
Really nasty way to go. If your body weight doesn’t snap your neck, then you slowly choke to death.
IMHO, if you gotta execute someone, lethal injection should be the way.
Because their is a good chance they might have executed people by accident…
I always thought that a bullet in the head or heart is the fastest way to kill someone, drugs are unreliable even for the death penalty:
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/some-ex … executions
Lifelong hard labor remains preferible to the death penalty, in my opinion, but if you really want to kill criminals, firing squads are the most safe and efficient option.
The most effective, IMO, is old time head removal. I even enjoy the command: Off with the head!
Actually, I’m with the group of people that think the current lethal injection system kinda sucks and there’s probably a better way to do it. However, I will definitely agree that it’s a better method of execution than hanging.
From that deathpenaltyinfo advocacy site: http://deathpenaltyinfo.org/causes-wrongful-convictions
That data is not at all what I would have thought. I would not have figured erroneous eyewitness testimony would be far and away the leading cause of issues. That’s pretty disturbing.
If I recall, one of the newer and relatively safer methods being proposed by some is nitrogen asphyxiation.
I found it more disturbing that “false confessions - resulting from mental illness or retardation, as well as from police torture” exist at all, personally.
It is very disturbing, but I knew about the problem before.
Actual police misconduct is (probably … I would hope …) rare, but is inevitable in an imperfect system staffed by people. All you can do is have procedural safeguards to defend against it. More disturbing is the the fact that there’s data indicating the police may be provoking false confessions without even intending to. See this article: http://www.apcj.org/documents/4_1_Newri … onohue.pdf
Common police interrogation techniques may cause problems. Let alone when a cop decides to push the line. The real problem is in the US, interrogations don’t have to be recorded, so cops can play loose with the rules.
http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/01c1e76 … enDocument
And here’s a source that claims
I tried to find the actual reference behind that, and didn’t have any luck. But that’s a disturbing thought, that detectives might not be nearly as good as they think they are. (A similar thing happened with arson investigations, a lot of what used to be considered known and accepted science has been shown to be junk recently.)
…And be assured that even our beloved EU is NOT blessed with a ‘perfect system’, hrrmph :roll: .
Wow, that’s quite gloomy. Of course, in the US, we have similar problems with lack of adequate funding for public defenders … but some of these countries seem to have bigger problems than that.
