It is said to be fast, efficient, but specially... painless
2006-07-22 09:21:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
I think it an oxymoron to use execution and humanitarian in the same sentence.
2006-07-22 09:34:57 · answer #1 · answered by norsktjej1964 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is no humanitarian execution method. Some are faster, some are painless; all are efficient. (Have you ever seen an executed person come back to life?)
Some found the guillotine to be too graphic a method of execution; that is why other means were developed: electric chair, lethal injection...
As for the rationale of executing a person: check out how many dead convicts were posthumously found to be innocent.
What are excuses worth to their families at that point?
2006-07-22 09:32:28 · answer #2 · answered by circle_sabine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to put "humanitarian" and "execution" in the same sentence, but I think I get your drift.
Interestingly enough, the guillotine was developed as a more "humane" method of execution. It was something of an improvement over burning at the stake or hacking a head off with an axe.
As technology has evolved, Western society has attempted to clean up the execution process by using various contraptions to "do the deed." The electric chair was devised as a "more humane" method of execution, although I would personally find it difficult as an inventor to spend lots of time coming up with a better way to kill people. That would take quite a bit of moral yoga.
I think these new devices of execution are somewhat symbolic of our unease with the death penalty. My thinking is, if you're going to kill somebody, just do it as cheaply as possible. The end result is a dead body. Either quit executing people, or just beat them to death with a club. Perhaps stoning? Anyway, that's my "modest proposal," with apologies to Swift.
2006-07-22 17:29:52 · answer #3 · answered by Dave1001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really. It is better than some methods, such as beheading with and ax. But if the blade is not sharp or the person is not positioned correctly it can be a very messy business. As far as painless...well I don't believe that there has ever been someone executed in that manner who could still communicate well enough to tell us if it hurt or not.
2006-07-22 09:29:25 · answer #4 · answered by arcticheart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No execution method is 'humanitarian'
The guilotine was a nasty public way to die , but by all accounts it was very swift and relitively painless
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I have not tried this myself
what a horrible thought ;((
2006-07-22 09:51:25 · answer #5 · answered by sweet-cookie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No method of execution would be humanitarian, but if anyone murders me or the ones I love, any method would be acceptable.
2006-07-22 09:43:41 · answer #6 · answered by lighthouse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it is not. No executions are humanitarian. The state should not be in the business of killing people.
2006-07-22 09:25:28 · answer #7 · answered by Paul P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think so, they really should bring it back, it would be a lot cheaper than the electric chair. I'd love to see pedophiles, murderers and rapists 'get the G'.
2006-07-22 09:45:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Empirically it has not and will not be.
I second the opinion that killing never was and never will be humanitarian.
2006-07-22 11:25:35 · answer #9 · answered by margot 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋