How would you like to be executed?
Well known visitors to death row John Albert Taylor and Gary Gilmore both got to choose how they met their demise and as regular readers will know, they both opted for the firing squad over a lethal injection.
And that got me thinking…if you really had to pick your own ticket to ride, which would you choose?
Cast your vote in our ridiculous and completely hypothetical survey:
“How would you like to be executed?”
Select your answer by clicking one of the options in the list below, then refresh the page to update the results graph.
The results so far:
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July 15 at 12:45 pm
I can’t believe no one wants to be burned at the stake. If you take a couple of lungfuls of smoke as soon as they light the twigs you’ll soon be dead anyway.
October 18 at 2:14 pm
By many primary source accounts in history that does nor occur at all. The couple of lung fulls of smoke refers to house, factory fires that contain chemicals, ect. Burning at the stake would be awfull. Also the fuel is twigs ect so it would start very slowly
December 28 at 6:30 pm
You ought to put some links here to explain some of the execution types. For example what is “Pressed” ?
September 2 at 3:43 pm
“Pressed” is where they stratch you out on the ground, tied by your limbs, and slowly lay weights onto you body until you can’t breathe. Not nice.
May 13 at 7:27 am
I’ve had a fasination with hanging ever since my mom got me a record of the soundtrack of Disney’s Robin Hood. I was about five. I would play it over and over. I then would act out scenes with my brother. The guillotine would be my second choice. At about the same age, I was watching a movie about the French Revolution at my friends house. It showed the blade falling, but did not show it hitting the person. I asked my friend what happened, he said “They’re killing the King.” Made me wonder about that. How? Now I know it’s quick and almost no pain.