what do you think the most humane way of a death penalty?

Question

I think its beheading by a swift strong stroke with a sharp object, not by slicing the throat.Cos the person wouldnt fell any pain, it will be so sudden.Dont u think so.

If someone rape and kill ur children, i just cant think how 'humane' u can be by forgiving him.Still lock up for your whole life can be very degrading, think of being lock up for more tahn 30 years.

If someone rape and kill ur children, i just cant think how 'humane' u can be by forgiving him.Still lock up for your whole life can be very degrading, think of being lock up for more tahn 30 years.

Answer 1

I think if it is a male, you should sit him down on a stump, nail his balls to that stump and then push him over backwards.(this punishment mainly for sex offenders) Take a mans balls away, he will eventually shrivel and die. If it is a female , lock her in a mall with great batgain prices for top name brands for 24 hours with no money or credit cards. She will eventually die form depression.

Answer 2

The guillotine is faster, no doubt about that, but it's so gruesome that the mental anguish to the condemned before the execution would be inhumane. The most humane way would be to place a person heavily under sedation, like one undergoes for surgery, and to simply stop the heart while the person is "asleep". This isn't the same as lethal injection, which paralyzes the body before death actually occurs, while the person is still conscious. Lethal injection is not so humane as some think it is.

I agree with another answerer: the death penalty is barbaric. I am opposed to it, and it's sad and sick imo that so many so-called Christians relish the idea of a good, bloody, nasty execution.

Answer 3

There is nothing humane about the death penalty. I find it curious how so many so-called "Christians" can so callously believe that killing an unborn child or putting another person to death is 'humane' or morally correct.
I walked away from organized religion decades ago, but I seem to remember one of the Christian commandments being, 'THOU SHALT NOT KILL'. I don't ever recall their being any disclaimer that says, "Thou Shalt Not Kill unless you want to get rid of a life forming inside its mother's womb; or unless you want to punish someone else for their vile crimes; or unless you're the Commander-In-Chief with a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein who also covets all that OIL swimming underneath his country's sands."
The death penalty is nothing more than the invention of our own hubris and megalomania, where we feel we have to prove that we are superior to someone else.
If we were truly a compassionate, civil society we would work on preventing crime, rehabilitating criminals, and abolishing the death penalty. Of course, there are those who will say some criminals can't be rehabilitated (they're usually the same cretins who are so rigid in their own evil beliefs that they, too, can't be rehabilitated into accepting forgiveness and love as solutions to society's ills). Just the fact that you can actually believe a "swift strong stroke with a sharp object" is "humane" reveals some twisted psyche of a sick, demented mind. -RKO- 08/05/06

Answer 4

I don't know or care what the most humane way to administer the death penalty is, but in my opinion the best system they ever had was public hanging. Today, people have no need to fear consequences of their violent behavior. I can appeal my death penalty at least 7 times at taxpayers expense and then I will die of a relatively painless lethal injection and never knew I had died. Public hangings allow other people to see first-hand what will happen to you if you commit a crime serious enough to get the death penalty. That's a pretty good deterrent to do what he did. People that are opposed to the death penalty would change their mind about it if one of those thugs killed someone in their family. Like another answerer mentioned, what about the victim? Did they get to choose to die painlessly?

Answer 5

There is no humane way, nor should there be. In spite of this, a lethal injection by ways of "surgical" anesthetic should be used. Problem is medical societies say they will prosecute any anesthesiologists who assists. They say it violates the Hippocratic oath. The anti-death penalty folks are only using this ploy to get rid of the death penalty. I say, give the prisoner the choice, as a few states do. It should only be done to "look humane". For the sake of victims family, not for the condemned.

Answer 6

Well, actually, if you were guillotined, you'd feel your head hit the bucket and you'd be conscious for awhile. There has been some verification of this, and "experimenting". I think it'd be terrifying to know you had been beheaded and not even be able to scream. But.....
Doesn't a "humane" death penalty seem to be an oxymoron? I mean, if you're going to kill someone, shouldn't you be figuring out the most AWFUL way to do it you can imagine?

Answer 7

The death penalty should be called the easy way out. Punishment should fit the crime, criminals should die the same way they killed their victims. And capital punishment should be expanded to cover more than just murder. Beheading is a good idea though it is humane and it would act as more of a deterrent than lethal injection.

Answer 8

After some guy maims rapes and kills a little girl, why is the humanity of his death a question? Seems like the inhumainty would be a given.

Answer 9

I agree. Beheading is quick; it's gross enough to deter other people; and I think it would be really cool to have those last few moments of consciousness with my head apart from my body.

I disagree with the death penalty, though. I don't think anyone has the right to take another person's life, except in self-defense.

Answer 10

I am a Christian but I do believe in the death penalty and I do not think that it should be humane. Take the BTK killer, I don't think that he should be given a sedative and then have a lethal injection given to him to stop his heart.He was anything but humane to his victims. the problem with society today is that we don't want to appear to be inhumane. We are too soft on these people.

Answer 11

Lethal Injection.