I just saw something on TV that people being executed by electric chair HAVE to wear a mask .. is that so that the guards don't have to face dying people or what?
2006-07-15 19:42:18 · 13 answers · asked by Gahhhhhh 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Because they don't have the guts to watch the people that they condemn. If you are going to kill someone for the state, have the guts to watch
2006-07-15 19:54:26 · answer #1 · answered by Ferret 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Electricity running through a person tends to make their face contort... and often glazes the eyes. The mask is for the witnesses, not for the gaurds or the person being executed.
2006-07-16 02:47:49 · answer #2 · answered by Talisman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe so. If I am correct, and you have to ask an expert, it is a gruesome experience on their face. Someone once told me eyes either roll in the back of their head, some pop out, and with that much electricity, you're actually being cooked. That is what I think happens, but don't swear me to that...
2006-07-16 02:47:46 · answer #3 · answered by linus_van_pelt68 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it it quite logical that a person who is goin to be hanged or executed in a few moments would reflect on the pat and would feel for it.knowingly or unknowngly their facial expressions also change hence.due to this change the executioner may consider going back on what he is supposed to be doin meanin that the human in him will show some mercy for him and let off......
another factor is that he is covered with a black cloth symolising shame for the act for which he has been convicted....
i suggest u ask a lawyer too abt this.
2006-07-16 02:54:51 · answer #4 · answered by chaks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They aren't called guards they are called officers and it is so the person dying doesn't see who did it and also so any family, press, or victims watching do not have to bear witness to anything uncomfortable for them to see as the party dies.
2006-07-16 17:36:43 · answer #5 · answered by I KNOW I KNOW 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it was the electric chair it is because blood and other stuff comes out of there mouth and because it looks terrible.
2006-07-16 02:45:56 · answer #6 · answered by Questions&Answers 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the eyeballs pop like cherry bombs.
2006-07-16 02:49:41 · answer #7 · answered by Huevos Rancheros 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are to cheap to just clean up the room so they keep all the parts that explode in one bag!
2006-07-16 04:50:14 · answer #8 · answered by grim reaper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like it. Our country likes to dehuminize death.
2006-07-16 02:46:16 · answer #9 · answered by chill'n 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tradition, I suspect but if it was on Haloween eve. then the question is answered.
D.
2006-07-16 02:46:52 · answer #10 · answered by Dan S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋