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My friend showed me a few old videos of beheadings and hangings. I know this isn't the best thing to be watching but I am a curious person ...so naturally I have some questions about this subject. I noticed that a lot of the prisoners looked a bit out of it before the execution. I was wondering if they are given any medication or drugs prior. I was also wondering why they video tapped such actions. Is this used as a deterrent or perhaps used in anatomy classes?
Side note- These were mostly historic type films and not those middle eastern ones that are going around. Thank you for any answers I may receive in here.
Mny where from pure fear like experienced i combat by mnay. As for why;I guess the same re4ason mnay were public exhabitions;put fear oif the consequences of the action.
It isn't possible to answer your specific questions because you have not identified any specific executions. We would need the who, the where and the when before anyone could begin to research the issue.
This thread may be of some interest to you, it is about executions: The Bloody Codes
I have the same sort of curiosity regarding something which Iran did in December of 2000. I came across a short article in the paper which reported that the Iranians had saved up six months worth of criminals and was staging their punishment in the Tehran soccer stadium. The majority of the criminals were thieves, so the majority of the action was their getting their hands sliced off.
The article was frustratingly short on details, there was so much I wanted to know. What was the atmosphere like? Was it somber or were people cheering the mutilations? Was food sold in the stands. Was the event broadcast on radio or tv with play by play...or blow by blow I suppose...announcers? ("There's the snap! And its a handoff!") Was it a free event or did you have to buy a ticket? Were their good and bad seats price scaled by their closeness to the action? Were their scalpers selling at premium prices to latecomers? (Scalpers...there may have literally been scalpers, probably the half time show.)
None of these things have I ever managed to learn. I have this vision of a stadium full of bloodthirsty fans waving those giant foam hands around.
The article was frustratingly short on details, there was so much I wanted to know.
Welcome to journalism in the 21st century. When I see coverage that leaves me feeling that way, I conclude that there was nothing to see here, folks, somebody just misunderstood or misinterpreted some rumor and built a story about it for a stringer for some local paper in Pakistan, and a junior intern in London was assigned the task of finding oddball stories that they could sell to Shep Smith for his Around the World in 80 Seconds.
Welcome to journalism in the 21st century. When I see coverage that leaves me feeling that way, I conclude that there was nothing to see here, folks, somebody just misunderstood or misinterpreted some rumor and built a story about it for a stringer for some local paper in Pakistan, and a junior intern in London was assigned the task of finding oddball stories that they could sell to Shep Smith for his Around the World in 80 Seconds.
My friend showed me a few old videos of beheadings and hangings. I know this isn't the best thing to be watching but I am a curious person ...so naturally I have some questions about this subject. I noticed that a lot of the prisoners looked a bit out of it before the execution. I was wondering if they are given any medication or drugs prior. I was also wondering why they video tapped such actions. Is this used as a deterrent or perhaps used in anatomy classes?
Side note- These were mostly historic type films and not those middle eastern ones that are going around. Thank you for any answers I may receive in here.
Prurience, pornographic fascination is not just about sex.
My assumption is that these videos were large made for the consumption of macabre minded degenerates and mental midgets, much like the photos that were made in decades past of mobs of grinning whites posing with the hanging, burned corpse of a lynch victim and then these photos were sometimes made into post cards.
In other words, you do not disagree with anything I said. You just object to me naming the most flagrant example of it. Right? The truth is fine, as long as it doesn't step on any of your pets.
In other words, you do not disagree with anything I said. You just object to me naming the most flagrant example of it. Right? The truth is fine, as long as it doesn't step on any of your pets.
~Yawn~ I know you from other threads, sorry, don't do flame bait anymore.
Executions and punishments were the biggest show in any European city during the XIXth Century, it was a big show with reserved seats, hired balconies and cheering crowds.
~Yawn~ I know you from other threads, sorry, don't do flame bait anymore.
Welcome to journalism in the 21st century. When I see coverage that leaves me feeling that way, I conclude that there was nothing to see here, folks, somebody just misunderstood or misinterpreted some rumor and built a story about it for a stringer for some local paper in Pakistan, and a junior intern in London was assigned the task of finding oddball stories that they could sell to [American media outlets].
Do you have any objection to any of the content of that statement, when it does not step on the toes of your favorite network? If you do, please present your argument. Nothing in my original post addressed any poster in any insulting or contemptuous manner. Yours did. You have no-one to blame but yourself if such a posting environment infiltrates the forum.
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