You're being executed tomorrow

[Paul Kersey]

Which way don't you want to go out? I'll get the ball rolling with the death by a thousand cuts. I won't post pictures here but if you go to google or wiki, you'll see some photos from the turn of last century when the Chinese were still using this for corporal punishment. I've read that if your family paid some bucks, the executioners would show 'mercy' and either stab your heart first or slash your throat. I've also read that beneficiaries of this punishment were also strung out on opium. Notwithstanding, I wouldn't want to go out in this way.

 

[Gough]

I'd cancel the newspapers.

 

[BALKAN]

The Brazen Bull would be a pretty shitty way to go out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull

The bull was made entirely of bronze, hollow, with a door in one side.[3] The condemned were locked in the bull, and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until the person inside roasted to death.

 

[Paul Kersey]

The Brazen Bull would be a pretty shitty way to go out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull

**** me.

 

[JuddsABlue]

I remember reading a scientist/doctor whatever said the best and most humane way to execute someone is the guillotine which they obviously dont do anymore. Yes you seperate the head from the corpse but its quick and painless

Aside from the obvious torture ones like the bronze bull (which is so insanely ****ed up who thought of that) I'd hate the firing squad. First of all you're trusting someones aim (pretty sure theres only 1 bullet in a firing squad? Maybe its the other way round and one gun is empty) but either way, the waiting and anticipation would be horrible, especially not knowing theyre just gonna shoot around you're heart and you'll bleed out in agony

Also for those who have watched The Counselor (about how somebody dies in it, no plot spoilers)

Spoiler

Getting that throat cutting string thing would be mighty shitful as well. Someone loops an ultra strong wire around your neck which has a motor that tightens until its fully retracted, cutting through your throat and eventually chopping your head off but the whole thing takes a few minutes before it gets deep enough to kill you

 

[LukasTheGreat]

Anything on this list:

 

[jonesy03]

Would delete my search history, that's for sure

 

[MisterMarcus]

Scaphism....

The condemned was forced to ingest milk and honey to the point of developing a severe bowel movement and diarrhea, and more honey would be rubbed on his exposed appendages to attract insects. He would then be left to float on a stagnant pond or be exposed to the sun. The defenseless individual's feces accumulated within the container, attracting more insects which would eat and breed within his exposed flesh, which—pursuant to interruption of the blood supply by burrowing insects—became increasingly gangrenous. The feeding would be repeated each day in some cases to prolong the torture, so that fatal dehydration or starvation did not occur. Death, when it eventually occurred, was probably due to a combination of dehydration, starvation and septic shock

Sounds a wonderful way to go

 

[Paul Kersey]

Holy ****.

 

[BALKAN]

Jeez talk about overkill.

 

[GROTTO]

Anything on this list:

Geez some of those methods are sick.

A few of them have been used in movies, but I reckon you could make another Saw movie with some of those techniques.

 

[Hot Pocket]

The yanks used to use white phosphorous in grenade form against Chinese and Korean villages in the Korean war.

When the Chinese would capture American soldiers, as payback, to execute them they'd place these grenades inside the mouths of the Americans and pull the pin. These don't explode as such, and if you want to know why it's so ****ing brutal, do a quick wikipedia search on white phosphorous. It literally keeps burning until it runs out of air, so if it begins in your mouth it just burns holes straight through, right down to your feet. From the inside.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Drowning would be a pretty shitty way to go. Anything quick and painless is the way I want to go

 

[Northworth]

Genghis Khan was once offered a bribe not to sack and destroy a village - he was offered by the "mayor" Genghis' weight in silver..... instead Genghis offered HIM his weight in silver by melting it down and pouring it down his throat

 

[Hot Pocket]

Anything asphyxiation related would be bad I reckon, drowning would indeed suck. But it is meant to get euphoric before the end.

If you ask me a huge smack OD probably wouldn't be the worst way to go. Or getting directly hit on the head by a meteorite you didn't see coming.

 

[JuddsABlue]

Scaphism....



Sounds a wonderful way to go

Why arent people just getting out and running away? Surely a spread to the back is a better way to go?

I guess theyd be chained to the bucket but still, Id imagine I'd just throw a massive fit in the hopes of getting my throat cut

I guess they could break your legs and hips to make moving really difficult

 

[Paul Kersey]

The Judas Cradle? **** me. Look out, here comes the executioner behind it too.

 

[MisterMarcus]

Why arent people just getting out and running away? Surely a spread to the back is a better way to go?

I guess theyd be chained to the bucket but still, Id imagine I'd just throw a massive fit in the hopes of getting my throat cut

I guess they could break your legs and hips to make moving really difficult

The quote talked about them being tied to a couple of logs, or tied to a boat if they were being pushed out into a lake.

Probably be better to try to tip the boat over and drown......

 

[Roobs321]

The old punishment for patricide (tied into a sack full of snakes, which is weighted and thrown in a river) would be a disturbing few minutes. Imagine killing some bloke and then in the court proceedings DNA testing shows he is your estranged biological father. Oh **** no!

But the one that gives me chills is being flayed alive. The Chinese used to do it a lot (and still do in some cases to animals), and Martyrs is a famous example. No thank you. Additionally, to be flayed and beheaded would be like the ultimate debasement, its the way some arseh*le victorious warlord would naturally treat his defeated commander opponent. You know, just to rub it in and be a campaigner.

I imagine feeling the initial bite of a shark, the shock and horror of knowing what is starting to happen, would also be awful (the water element doesn't help either). Being eaten in water just seems even further from our human comfort zone than say a land animal.

 

[Roobs321]

Jesus, lethal injection is kind of like a pardon+parole+win the lottery in comparison to these executions.

Maybe the arts industry back then was torture. Like a whole employment sector paid to think up creative ways to punish victims.

 

[Hot Pocket]

Rather die from a shark than a croc. At least the ocean makes noise.

 

[Northworth]

did anyone see the tv movie about John Adams? They showed a depiction of tarred and feathered - I never really considered that before - it always just evoked a smile at the silliness of it... but having hot melted tar poured all over you - you would be begging for a quick end

 

[raskolnikov]

Crocs or being set on fire would be my most dreaded way to go out of all the remotely possible ways to die.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Crocs would be much better than most, if not all, of those ways our sicko forefathers came up with.

 

[Gough]

The whole concept of state sanctioned murder appalls me, old testament justice just seems so primitive.