If you were terrified of needles....?

Question

and you had to choose between the electric chair or lethal injection, which one would you choose?

Fear of Needles Leads Condemned Man to Choose the Electric Chair

Electric Chair Execution Set Tonight

Thursday July 20, 2006 8:01 PM


By KRISTEN GELINEAU

Associated Press Writer

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A convicted killer who chose the electric chair because he was apparently unnerved by the prospect of lethal injection awaited execution Thursday.

Answer 1

the electric chair

Answer 2

I'd opt not to get myself into a situation where I had to choose the electric chair nor lethal injection. There are so many ways to live without committing crimes and crime goes against my belief system, so it's not a possibility. I don't understand how anyone on death row can keep living know they are going to die, nor do I know why they keep living. If there ever was a reason to kill oneself, it would have to be as one awaited that final moment in prison. I know there could still be a pardon and maybe he/she would die right before the pardon came down, but most people on death row are guilty, and what a sad way to live. I also know of a few who have been wrongly accused and awaited death knowing they were innocent, praying innocence could be proven
and released. If I were in that situation, I'd just have to tell the warden he had to make the decision because either of the two choices leads to death. By that time one's fear of needles would be irrelevant compared to the fact that I was innocent and going to die.

Answer 3

After the prisoner has been restrained, two intravenous (IV) tubes are inserted by the execution team, one tube in each arm. The intravenous tubes are threaded through an opening in the wall that leads to the anteroom, where the executioner is located. Once the IV tubes are inserted, a saline solution begins flowing into them.
The drugs are administered, in this order:

Anesthetic - Sodium thiopental, which has the trademark name Pentothal, puts the inmate into a deep sleep. This drug is a barbiturate that induces general anesthesia when administered intravenously. It can reach effective clinical concentrations in the brain within 30 seconds, according to an Amnesty International report. For surgical operations, patients are given a dose of 100 to 150 milligrams over a period of 10 to 15 seconds. For executions, as many as 5 grams (5,000 mg) of Pentothal may be administered. This in itself is a lethal dose. It's believed by some that after this anesthetic is delivered, the inmate doesn't feel anything.

Saline solution flushes the intravenous line.

Paralyzing agent - Pancuronium bromide, also known as Pavulon, is a muscle relaxant that is given in a dose that stops breathing by paralyzing the diaphragm and lungs. Conventionally, this drug takes effect in one to three minutes after being injected. In many states, this drug is given in doses of up to 100 milligrams, a much higher dose than is used in surgical operations -- usually 40 to 100 micrograms per one kilogram of body weight. Other chemicals that can be used as a paralyzing agent include tubocurarine chloride and succinylcholine chloride.

Saline solution flushes the intravenous line.

Toxic agent (not used by all states) - Potassium chloride is given at a lethal dose in order to interrupt the electrical signaling essential to heart functions. This induces cardiac arrest.

I prefer lethal injection...with the electric chair...they aren't sure if the volts will stop your heart...and they might have to hit you with the volts more than once.

Answer 4

lethal injection whatever that is im just dont want to go into the electric chair

Answer 5

im terrified of needles, but i'd still do the lethal injection...i think that the electric chair would hurt way worse than a needle. ((and trust me, i am so deathly scared of needles))

Answer 6

lethal injection because they give you a needle to sedate you before you get the main one that shuts down your organs.i would not like to be fried

Answer 7

lethal injection

Answer 8

lethal injection

Answer 9

lethal injection anyway

Answer 10

Injection
I think being terrified of needles wouldn't matter at that time---everything would be over soon anyways.