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How do you know you're not still aware and in pain for several minutes when your head has been detached?
Do you really stay conscious after being decapitated? - HowStuffWorks
To determine whether decapitation, a common method of euthanizing lab rats, is humane, the researchers connected an EEG machine to the brains of rats, decapitated them and recorded the electrical activity in the brain after the event. The Dutch researchers found that for about four seconds after being separated from the body, the rats' brains continued to generate electrical activity between the 13 to 100-Hertz frequency band, which is associated with consciousness and cognition, defined as "a mental process that includes thinking" This finding suggests that the brain can continue to produce thoughts and experience sensations for at least several seconds following decapitation -- in rats, at least.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/sci...apitation3.htm
Perhaps most famously was the study conducted by a Dr. Beaurieux in 1905 of the head of executed criminal Henri Languille. Over the course of 25 to 30 seconds of observation, the physician recorded managing to get Languille to open his eyes and "undeniably" focus them on the doctor's twice by calling the executed man's name
Implications of Consciousness after Decapitation - Do you really stay conscious after being decapitated?
Perhaps most famously was the study conducted by a Dr. Beaurieux in 1905 of the head of executed criminal Henri Languille. Over the course of 25 to 30 seconds of observation, the physician recorded managing to get Languille to open his eyes and "undeniably" focus them on the doctor's twice by calling the executed man's name
This story is probably false like others of the same type. Just a few seconds without oxygen and your brain is put to sleep.
I agree the guillotine is the best option and is humane. Cheap, reliable, painless and quick. The use of gasses and drugs spares us the violence and the sight of blood while it puts the sentenced through horrible pain. The horrible vision of seeing a head violently detached from the body would cause the opposite effect because it would be a formal warning to potential criminals while not making the sentenced suffer.
I hate to know a man, who in 1999, shot and buried a woman alive suffered during an execution. This was the Oklahoma "botched" execution. I don't the skinny about the cases in the other states. I understand an experimental drug Midazolam was used. My thoughts are why was protocol changed ? Why wasn't the usual sodium thiopental used? Never heard of the previously used drug combination going awry. That is the biggest issue to me. We're they experimenting in secret? I really don't care if those people who commit heinous murders suffer or not.
The "suffering" in the OK case was probably extended for 43 minutes because they tried to stop the potassium infusion used to stop his heart, when the man started reacting or struggling. Just my opinion, but they shouldn't have tried to save him while they were trying to kill him.
Lethal injection is the humane way to execute, better way to go than how some of their victims went. Maybe murderers should be given the same death they gave to their victims.
Lethal injection is the humane way to execute, better way to go than how some of their victims went. Maybe murderers should be given the same death they gave to their victims.
Law and the constitution prevent the state from inflicting "cruel and unusual punishment" in executions. The old methods (hanging, firing squads) were fine but Americans like to complicate things - from voting machines (instead of x's on paper) to drug injection contraptions, pivoting beds, and push button curtains in the death chamber.
There have been experiments done with asking the condemned to blink eyes, stare at something, respond to name being called, that seem to indicate that death is not instant.
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This was the Oklahoma "botched" execution. I don't the skinny about the cases in the other states. I understand an experimental drug Midazolam was used. My thoughts are why was protocol changed ? Why wasn't the usual sodium thiopental used? Never heard of the previously used drug combination going awry. That is the biggest issue to me. We're they experimenting in secret? I really don't care if those people who commit heinous murders suffer or not.
