Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Oklahoma INCREASING De@th Penalty Despite BOTCHED Executi0ns | The Kyle Kulinski Show" video.

  1. Way back in the 90s the discussion about the death penalty came up at work and someone mentioned a British documentary where a couple of film makers just looked at the facts. They did not go either pro or con on the subject just what the facts were. Where the methods came, how long they take, how many are botched and in what way they are botched. I found it at the video rental store (it was the 90s) a few weeks later. What stunned me was how little I actually knew about the subject. Like how long various techniques take. It was a long time ago but I remember a couple of things. 1) The worst was electrocution which most people have the idea that its a pulse of volts and bang no heartbeat. More often than not the person does not die from the voltage but from the internal damage done from burning which can take almost an hour in some cases. 2) The cocktail being used at that time (mid 90s) for lethal injection was developed by 2 Nazi doctors who experimented on mentally retarded orphans. The information was recovered in the aftermath of WW2. 3) If hanged and the hangman got the drop right and the knot in the right place it was near instant from the neck being snapped. If not the person could either strangle slowly taking up to several minutes or be decapitated as happened in Iraq with Saddam Hussein's half brother. 4) Stoning, which is still practiced in a few countries can take hours. 5) Beheadings are either instant or so ugly it can't be described. 6) The firing squad is either instant or so ugly it can't be described. The ugliest fact however was during first 90years of the 20th century less than 10% of all people formally executed by "the state" (as in any nation, state or jurisdiction) were charged with a crime and given a trial. Over 90% of all the people formally executed in various nations and states were never charged with any crime let alone given a trial. They did not go into how many people were later found to be innocent.
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