Poll: If you were sentenced to death, what method you choose?

[Macgyvercas]

Apologies if this has been done, but it's kinda late, and I don't feel like searching.

So I was doing some research on the Dugard kidnapping so I'm not completely left in the dark when it comes up at work, when I noticed that her kidnapper had been given 431 years in prison. Now, that makes very little sense to me. I mean, if you're going to give someone a prison sentence of almost 6 times longer than the average human lifespan, why not just give them the death penalty and not waste my tax dollars.

But anyway, that got me thinking: If I was sentenced to death for whatever reason, how would I want to go? According to Wikipedia, the methods that are used legally are decapitation, electric chair, gas chamber, hanging, lethal injection, firing squad, and stoning. So, how would you want to go?

As for me, I would pick firing sqaud. And I would also request that I be standing, unblindfolded, facing the sqaud, and that ALL of them fire live rounds. Because if I'm going to go out, I might as well go out like a badass.

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

Being put in an endless battle that I cannot win.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Being put in an endless battle that I cannot win.

Against robots, zombies or aliens?

 

[evilneko]

Death by running off a cliff while being chased by a bunch of topless women.

 

[Dango]

Being sent on a secret mission behind enemy lines that guarantees death.

 

[Laser Priest]

I choose sepuku.

And then I have myself resurrected.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Death... by Snoo-Snoo!

In real life, I'd choose... no, that's still right.

 

[edgecult]

That's an easy one. Fired man cannon style into the sun. -firm nod- ..... tsk.. otherwise.. I guess firing squad.. (preferably 1 sniper 1 round and I can't see him.. standing over some kind of kiln so I'm cremated right afterwards -shrug-)

Or what the guy above said. Snoo snoo works well for me too

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

But anyway, that got me thinking: If I was sentenced to death for whatever reason, how would I want to go? According to Wikipedia, the methods that are used legally are decapitation, electric chair, gas chamber, hanging, lethal injection, firing squad, and stoning. So, how would you want to go?

Other: Death by cardiac failure due to taking a drug to speed up my heart (such as cocaine), then having a drugged out sex-scapade with a number of strong, handsome men who would literally fuck me to death.

Or if that isn't allowed...

Other: Morphine Overdose.
The shit they use for lethal injection is NASTY. It is actually very painful (I've read).

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

So I was doing some research on the Dugard kidnapping so I'm not completely left in the dark when it comes up at work, when I noticed that her kidnapper had been given 431 years in prison. Now, that makes very little sense to me. I mean, if you're going to give someone a prison sentence of almost 6 times longer than the average human lifespan, why not just give them the death penalty and not waste my tax dollars.

The problem with the death penalty is that in the US it ends up costing more to execute someone than it does to keep them in prison for life, because on death row they get an almost limitless amount of appeals which cost taxpayer money for the court to go through. That is my one and only reason for being against the death penalty at the moment, because honestly, some people just deserve a long and painful death.

I'd also like to say that giving someone multiple consecutive life sentences has always seemed quite silly to me, and I usually make sure to point this out in any criminal justice class I have to try and find out a compelling reason for that kind of sentencing. So far not a single professor has been able to give me a coherent response on it.

On topic: Firing squad definitely. And my last words in that case would be something like "take a couple steps closer so you don't miss boys."

 

[Macgyvercas]

But anyway, that got me thinking: If I was sentenced to death for whatever reason, how would I want to go? According to Wikipedia, the methods that are used legally are decapitation, electric chair, gas chamber, hanging, lethal injection, firing squad, and stoning. So, how would you want to go?

Other: Death by cardiac failure due to taking a drug to speed up my heart (such as cocaine), then having a drugged out sex-scapade with a number of strong, handsome men who would literally fuck me to death.

Or if that isn't allowed...

Just for sheer creativity (and because this made me laugh), I will allow it.

So I was doing some research on the Dugard kidnapping so I'm not completely left in the dark when it comes up at work, when I noticed that her kidnapper had been given 431 years in prison. Now, that makes very little sense to me. I mean, if you're going to give someone a prison sentence of almost 6 times longer than the average human lifespan, why not just give them the death penalty and not waste my tax dollars.

The problem with the death penalty is that in the US it ends up costing more to execute someone than it does to keep them in prison for life, because on death row they get an almost limitless amount of appeals which cost taxpayer money for the court to go through. That is my one and only reason for being against the death penalty at the moment, because honestly, some people just deserve a long and painful death.

See, i don't agree with that. We need to follow what Britain does. You get one appeal and that's it. (Again, information taken from Wikipedia. Take as you will).

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

Against robots, zombies or aliens?

Fool! Against hordes of Vikings...or people from Denmark...LET'S INVADE DENMARK!!!

 

[Macgyvercas]

Against robots, zombies or aliens?

Fool! Against hordes of Vikings...or people from Denmark...LET'S INVADE DENMARK!!!

How about ZOMBIE VIKINGS!!!!!

 

[DatCracker]

I'd like to be set on fire by lions with flame throwers strapped to their backs.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Death by running off a cliff while being chased by a bunch of topless women.

Which begs the question: Why are you running?

OT: Riding a shark that swallowed a time bomb.

 

[JLML]

Incineration. As in, being burned to death. What, I like fire. I spend a lot of time playing with it, and i don't find it to hurt THAT much to get burned. Might as well die epically. With fire.

 

[Megahedron]

I always thought having a bunch of endorphins injected directly into my brain would be pretty cool (or as someone suggested above, heroin OD), otherwise maybe some skydiving without a parachute or the old "Euthanasia Coaster."

Legal methods, I'd have to go with decapitation just for the history and feeling like a rebel. If they were willing to shoot me in the head during a firing squad I'd go with that, but for some strange reason it has to be in the chest.

 

[trooperpaul]

I want to die in a space-shuttle explosion.
HA! It's a win-win situation. Either I live forever, or we get a working space program. Some things are worth dying for.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Death... by Snoo-Snoo!

In real life, I'd choose... no, that's still right.

Stupid sexy ninjas. Okay, apart from that I'd want to die jousting on Polar Bears, just because I can.

 

[Randomeaninglessword]

I'd choose the firing squad, it seems to be fairly quick compared to some of the others, and I've heard a lot of nasty stories about stuff like gas chambers and lethal injections(improper measurments prolonging death, being paralyzed but still feeling pain, stuff like that).