Comments by "Wobbles And Bean" (@WobblesandBean) on "Firing Squad - Worst Punishments In The History of Mankind" video.

@graftongodofmemes Any kind of withdrawal, really. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
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It's really not, though. Not in the sense that most people think of when you hear "firing squad", a guy against a wall with a bunch of dudes carrying muskets. Accuracy wasn't exactly a priority, and musket bullets don't have the same power as our modern day firearms. The likely scenario would be that the bullets would hit non-lethal areas, shatter bones, rupture organs, and cause a great deal of pain before death occurred several minutes or even hours after the fact. And as you saw here, not even a shot to the face was a guaranteed death. It was oftentimes quite brutal.
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@Fatal_Inertia You are correct. If your head is suddenly and cleanly severed but the brain is intact, you will still remain conscious for several seconds until the blood drains from your cranial arteries and you lose consciousness. I often try to imagine what it must be like, it surely would have been terrifying to those who experienced it.
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@ShadowGaming-ft4fh It's also not nearly as consistent or painless. It may be instant, but it sure isn't dignified or harmless as lethal injection. Frankly, I think it's ridiculous that the US is being prevented from giving lethal injections by other supplying nations refusing to sell the drug to them. It's a more dignified death than many of them deserve, although I will concede that there are plenty of oopsies where an innocent man was sentenced to die. In many ways it's actually cheaper just to house a prisoner for life, than it is to put him to death, when you count for the cost of all the legal workload on the courts as the prisoner burns through all of his appeals.
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