Is death by hanging more humane than electric chair?

Answer 1

Death in general is not humane.

Answer 2

If done correctly, the neck is broken instantly, severing the nerve cords in the top vertebrae and causing paralysis and unconsciousness, resulting in asphyxiation without pain. This ensures a relatively painless death (There are never any guarantees though).

I highly doubt that anyone now-a-days knows how to do it, as it was considered a skill back when it was popular to do it, as morbid as that may seem. Anyone who goes through it today, will probably choke and suffer a long and slow suffocation.

And an electric chair is bad, mmmkay? Have we not learned enough from watching The Green Mile and Monster Ball?

Answer 3

If hanging is done properly it would have to be more humane.
I mean, if the spine is severed on the initial drop. If you have ever been hit by more than 120 volts then you know what I'm talking about. Several inmates have survived electrocution, but I've never heard of any one living through a hanging. Well, excepting Clint Eastwood.

Since everyone else bypassed the actual question and went straight to politics, I may as well share my opinion. I think at this late stage in our democratic country we have to consider just how many innocent men have been put on death row, by corruption and sloppy investigating. For this reason I think we should abolish the death penalty altogether. No mistake, our justice system is failing.

Answer 4

Long drop - yes, as it results in unconsciouness at the end of the drop (within one second of falling through the trapdoor). Short drop - no, as there is strangulation and pain from the neck being crushed by the rope, lasts up to 3-5 minutes.

Answer 5

If completed good putting is plenty extra humane interior the experience that the neck could be broken with the aid of the drop and the guy killed virtually promptly. the electrical powered chair is a especially barbaric technique with the aid of assessment. i think of the united kingdom ought to convey back capital punishment. extra helpful no longer enable me make the checklist of crimes or we would ought to hire an entire military of hangmen

Answer 6

I don't know if either form of death is humane. Each form causes distress and of course death, but the length of time to obtain it is not always the quickest.

Answer 7

Unless the hanging will take place at Home and in the Garden, your question belongs in another category. Try it in the "Society and Culture" categories.

Answer 8

They don't need electric chairs. There should be electric bleachers.

Answer 9

I think neither one is humane,but if your talking about execution for a murderer,I would like to see them get the same treatment their victims got.

Answer 10

yes,i think electric shock is more pain than hanging