How it would Feel: The Electric Chair 

It is not the voltage that kills, rather it is the amperage. Throw in clothing and shoe partial insulating drops amperage quite a bit because of I and R over E

I got 5200V DC from an old Korad Laser system off one of the amplifier flashlight cables. It felt cold like being tossed whole in ice water a smell of grilling porkchops and then it all went white. Woke up to paramedics working on me. The shock caused my heart to stop and they watched me overnight at the hospital. 😮

​@@michaelfercik3691apparently it's both (for DC at least) at least that's what I heard today

Smart answer but it all depends on how much sweat you have on your hands , the more sweat the lower the skin resistance is the more current passes your body barrier. You are wrong about voltage! the higher the voltage the higher the Electro motive force, so the lore current will flow. Suggest you rake a look at Ohms Law rather than repeating what you think you know is correct. Very high voltage and low cullet can kill or cure . Hence Cardiovascular re start units HIGH VOLTAGE LIMITED CURRENT.@@michaelfercik3691

If you keep copping 26,000 volts as an electronics engineer, then perhaps you should find a new profession. 🤣

is being a cop hard?

Invalid analogy. When you got tased the current wasn't passing through your brain.

All you cops are good for is writing tickets

@@casinosnoopy9900 blud got arrested yesterday

@@casinosnoopy9900 ok i have a chalange for you: whenever or IF you get attacked or robbed or whatever i want you to NOT CALL THE POLICE DO NOT CALL THEM and see how you do without THEM since theyll just "write you a ticket" DO NOT CALL THEM WHEN YOU GET SHOT OR WHATEVER let me know if you handeld it good or bad and if YOU caught the bad guy :) cya on the other side

When you read or listen to accounts of people that miraculously survived contact with high voltages in accidents its pretty common to see that while stunned and confused by what was happening and not able to act the sense of pain wasn't dulled at all.

Exactly. The idea that a person is conscious after that first massive surge of volts is ridiculous.

100% agree.

Totally... I always say that rope is cheap and reusable...

​@MrChekaManwrong. In recent years with people who were convicted on shoddy evidence by over zealous prosecutors, cops, and shoddy legal help, caution should be taken before you possibly execute an innocent person. DNA evidence has also been used to free innocent people.Sometimes vengeance isn't the best course.

​​@MrChekaManwhat if they're wrong? People have been exonerated decades after conviction due to new evidence and/or new methods of investigation. Under your proposed solution, they would have been executed. This is why we have a Constitution.

This is also why it takes so long to carry out. They want to make absolutely certain that this is the right person before they send him to meet his maker.

😂❤

Thank you. No, sadly Stinney has not been exonerated, though a gravestone to him in someone's garden says he has. His conviction was found to be unsafe and today he would have received a retrial, that is all. Though the entire process was utterly flawed, Stinney's interrogation, trial and fast tracking to the electric chair was all perfectly legal, this is what is so bad about it. I am actually not interested in his guilt or innocence. To me it's utterly irrelevant. They executed a child for God's sake and some people today still try to defend it. This demeans the memory of those little girls who never received justice and detracts from the tragedy of their deaths. Chinese diplomats often listen bewildered as their American counterparts lecture them on human rights. Once or twice they point out the hypocrisy, but often don't bother because they know that the people they are talking to won't recognise it. My side of the pond we have our shameful history too, so I'll try not to go on, sorry.

​@@pauldh62I'm not going to argue with you, but you need to spend some time on Google. George Stinney, Jr was exonerated 70 years too late.

@@pauldh62 …what?

@@WilDBeestMF He shouldn't have been needed to br exonetated at all. To put a child to death is irredeemable. You are probably right - fresh research, fresh evidence etc and yes look at the evidence, sure he didn't do it. There is a basic question here. How can a so called civilised society put to death someone of 14 years,?

I remember getting a decent 230V shock as a kid. Had an old stereo unit that was slightly unplugged, and I happened to put my finger right onto the live pin. Now usually, this wouldn't be a problem as here in New Zealand, we have plastic insulation on half of the pins. This stereo unit was old though, so it didn't have that, and insulation on plugs wasn't enforced until around 2009 if I remember right. After the jolt, I remember feeling my heart pounding in my chest and just feeling like my life flashed before my eyes. It felt like something changed inside my body. I have to say though, I was unbelievably lucky that I was laying on my bed at the time and not touching the floor, otherwise I would've died. Thank goodness for isolation. Now thinking about what inmates must feel when they get 2500V 5A (10,000W!) makes me feel like the shock I got was nothing - as it's 4X the power of a standard electrical outlet!

Good old Lonestar State . These people are right in their punishment !

Yes he got his desert

@@ClarkeRaglin-yj5nj then everthing happend the wax it should be.

Agreed. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.

And what about George Stinney jr who was 14 years old, innocent and fast tracked to the electric chair. How do you feel about him? When you have such a system, such abuses occur.

Awesome sculpture now get in

You're describing Vietnam interrogations......

@@sidgreenblatt5998 it happened......

We dont get to abandon the constitution because of that

@@mam362 No one is abandoning the constitution when you remember and speak of the pain and anguish that the victim and their families experienced.

@@1952creswell No, you're just abandoning your humanity. I get it; the brutal if not barbaric nature of criminal violence can trigger calls for an eye for an eye response. Then again, getting cutoff in traffic can also spark an urge for lethal retaliation. However, our justice system doesn't operate under emotion alone, and it shouldn't. As it stands, state sanctioned death, even if done quickly, remains highly controversial. People can debate this, but torture is absolutely morally indefensible.

@@sjones1017 Sympathizing with the victims of crimes is abandoning my humanity??? You must be living in an alternative universe. You would feel a lot different if it was your relative who was killed. In your world the only sympathy you can extend is to the monster that deserves what he got.

⁠ the left wing extremists responding to your comment have ruined many of our major cities. their politicians claim to be tough on crime, yet they sympathize with the criminals and demonize the innocent victims. leftist extremists are despicable people.

Hydrocodone is mostly an attitude adjustment with Tramadol being a pain blocker for spinal nerve pain. 20 mg or less Hydrocodone per day is not addictive, or very slight with-drawl. 27 mg twice a day will become addictive. More than that guarantees sever addiction that is the same that heroin addicts go through for 3 to 6 weeks. This has been proven and backed up by several blind clinical trials.

Sounds like gabapentin. 👍

hydromorphone (dilaudid) is a narcotic pain reliever....unless you're saying something else was used but didn't name it.

​@@TheRealBambihoovesno, gabapentin is still very much & commonly used.

Do you get the electric shocks they literally make my legs give. I've arachnoiditis + more. Hope your doing ok.

Except that not all people on death row committed horrible crimes. When I was in law school, the local prosecutor had a division in her office that did nothing but DP cases. At one point, that office had put so many people on death row that 25% of the inmates were from that one city. Yes, they committed murders, but they were not serial killers or sadistic killers.

@@ELSapp I don’t particularly care if you murder one or one hundred. If you kill someone in cold blood you deserve to die, and you don’t deserve to die humanely.

Some of them were later proven innocent.

"Give me revenge daddy state"

@@1337Shockwav3 A failure to impose credible and acceptable retribution for violent crimes leads to serious issues in society. Do you want to return to the bad old times of vigilante posse lynchings, blood feuds/generational vendettas between family groups and regular duelling?

Albert Pierrepoint in England dispatched about 500 people via the noose. He was excellent at his craft, getting it done within 10 seconds of the condemned entering the scaffold. The British government enlisted Pierrepoint at the of World War II to hang German war criminals. He retired in the late 1950s and opened a pub.

I am definitely going to do more ancient methods. This one and so many others were very creative, but so brutal!❤️

@@JadeExplainsDeathI thought you did that one?😊

I'll try. This was a method of execution so cruel even medieval authorities rarely used it. The condemned had almost inevitably experienced the foreplay of the rack days before to extract a confession. He, and I think it invariably was a he that this punishment was reserved for, would be put on a flat piece of wood with cylinders underneath to act as wheels. He would then be dragged through the streets of London, across all the bumpy cobbles to the Fields of St Giles. There he would be slowly hanged until unconscious, cut down and revived with a cold bucket of water in the face. Once fully conscious he would be tied down to a flat wooden structure. The executioner would make an incission in the lower part of his trunk, pulling into view the lower part of the colon. He would cut this and tie it round a stick then carefully wind in the colon and as much of the lower gut as he could. At a certain point he would cut off the gut from the stick and carefully unwind, cutting off segments and roasting them in a preheated wok for the condemned to smell cooking. It was said a skilled excutioner could keep the condemned conscious even at this point. Finally the victim would be cut in four, legs first. It was rarely used, reserved for acts of high treason. Elizabeth I used it to dispatch Catholic Lord Babbington who walked into a plot laid by Lord Walsingham to ensnare Mary Queen of Scots. Crowds had standards and did not like it, often turning out of sympathy for the accused. King James II used it quite frequently and we all know what happened to him.

@@pauldh62 Wow, I wouldn't know what would be worse, the extreme pain or the fact your smelling own intestines cooking, also in some cases the quartered part is done by tieing the condemned limbs to 4 horses which are let to run in different directions to ensure the limbs are severed or at least severely mangled

@@robbo5life That particular method was, I think, used in Venice and the continent. Grotesquely cruel, but probably quicker than the homegrown method I have described.

The only confusion (and quite honestly sadness) that I feel after reading your comment is that you describe your atheism as being largely rooted in the beliefs and behaviors of those proclaiming to be Christians. I am very much a Christian and used to be fully in favor of the death penalty, but my heart and mind have been changed on the matter and I feel no shame or embarrassment in admitting that. Christians are not perfect and are still susceptible to sin and impurity. The true nature of Christianity revolves exclusively around Christ, not His followers, all of whom happen to be deeply flawed. I pray that you will reconsider your position. I don't say that forcefully or with disrespect. I truly care and wish you all the best, no matter what you decide.

@MackLee23 [second edit: try to get to the end, sorry for the length] I'm sorry for any sadness you felt, I never intended that. Let me be clear from the start. My atheism is directly connected to feeling no connection to a god. Of any flavor. Even after years of chasing and trying. I wanted to believe. I truly did. Never once felt it. So I let it go. No anger or resentment since there's nothing to be angry nor resentful towards. I'll try to clarify without going (too) long [Edit: it's wayyyy too long] on what I meant. Suppose there's a God. God created a universe and created people and has total control of everything that happens. Like a personal sandbox to be entertainment. I could honestly believe in that. Believe, not know, since God has never manifested anything to prove existence. But maybe he's out there, deciding to remain hidden for lolz knowing it would cause conflict among a single species whether he exists or not. I'm still on board. Ever see a cat play with a mouse before killing it? Now let's go to the next step. God picks a species and presents (metaphorically) himself as thousands of different forms and manipulates different groups to believe he's the real one. Sometimes (most often) in many different forms that are all really him. A society believes they are the chosen. That God loves them more than the other humans. The other humans he doesn't like. And he'll use those humans to persecute, torture, murder and oppress his loved ones. Why? To test their love for him? Sounds a little (A LOT) like an abusive relationship. But I digress. Then God sends a son to save the world (keep in mind he's omnipotent) and tries to change the masses and learn of his glory. And his right to their unquestionable love. Then watches the guy get absolutely brutalized. (Again, he's omnipotent). Now, let's take the next step. A new group emerges from all the people he created that he loves unconditionally who praise his son. But because his chosen ones don't believe it was his son are now an adversary. Fast forward centuries and now that new group (Christians) become adversarial to each other over how to show devotion and love. (Actually that started right away, but most don't know the history, so I'll limit it to recent times.) Today, there are dozens of Christian denominations, every one of which sincerely "believes" all the others are wrong and likely burning in hell as a fate. (Decided by God whom created and loves them all) And in the US, whichever can gain the upper hand politically gets to heavily (not totally), influence the lives and behaviors of everyone else. And that's not even touching on God's creations who aren't Christians. (Seriously, most Christians can state that at least 3 other Christian groups aren't Christian. Ask a Lutheran for an opinion on Catholics) I'm wrapping this up and considering writing something for publication. Doing it on my phone and surprised I said this much. But if you actually made it this far, I'm impressed. Here's what nobody can ever answer. If there's a God, and he made me, without asking if I wanted it, to love and serve him, and if I didn't he'd condemn me to hell to suffer for eternity: Why didn't he put the belief in my heart and mind? Anyway, I thank you for wishing me well. I do the same for you. I have a nice home, a good job, a wonderful wife and daughter. It's 77 degrees, sunny, and the top is down for a drive tonight. I pay my taxes, help people whenever I can even if it inconveniences or costs me money, and I do it out of decency. Same as you I trust. We don't need labels for being good people. It's people who aren't very good but using the facade of a label to project a false front.

"Wet the sponge with a bucket of water,💦 and place it on the head, and turn on the electric,⚡ chair."

That's just the trouble - if. There are a plethora of accounts of this device malfunctioning and the condemned in agony.

I can only speak from experience. Having had over 30 ECT treatments ( Shock Therapy). It leaves one with a headache for 24-36 hours, a slight burn on the temple area, confusion for days. As well as memory loss short term. Thank god for anesthesia !

I’m in the middle of making my video on the gas chamber and I 100% agree! It definitely produces the most suffering for the longest period. At least with the electric chair, there’s a chance of losing consciousness earlier on. With gas, it takes minutes. It also has one of the absolutely worst botched executions that I’ve ever heard of!💖

Only 10 minutes. Ten minutes is a long time. To quote Westinghouse, " They would have done better with an axe."

@@pauldh62 Less than ten minutes. some inmates died in a matter of two minutes, other five or three. Of course every inmate reacts different and not all electrocutions are the same.

@@charbokh I don't think I stipulated a definitive time and I concur it seems to vary. If you left someone to be consumed by naked flames, how long would it take? Highwayman, Dick Turpin took five minutes to stop writhing on the gallows. Surely the extreme trauma such a measure taken against the human body should be measured in microseconds. How distanced from basic humanitarian standards can we get? In England crowds that had turned out to see an execution, believing justice should be done, would turn against the authorities if it was bungled. Given the carnival atmosphere present at Ted Bundy's execution, I wonder , genuinely wonder, at Americans' capacity to be unmoved by the suffering of another. A burning at the stake - American style, meaning the absences of adept, swift and discreet strangulation, prior to the flames reaching the victim - would, I think, be enjoyed by many.

10 minutes is a l-o-n-g time to get fried. I still think it's barbaric. Just "use the axe"...

Nah, it's just AI.

@@alastairpreece6908?? it’s not

Yeah, it's kind of trippy. Talking about something so serious, yet somehow also sounding like a little kid reading a story book. I forget what they call it, a disconnect or something?

...and they all died unhappily ever after.

Bacause its AI generated voice. Sounds exactly like the one I tried recently for my own audiobook :D

Last guillotine execution was in 1977 I believe.

Don't forget the the greased cotton they shove up your backside The diaper, the elastic band around the penis For women? Imagine the first being the same. I have no compassion for murders.

Morbid, yes, but honestly, as humans we really do have morbid curiosity. Sometimes our curiosity leads us to learn new things. Sometimes it leads us down rabbit holes that we regret. It’s kind of just part of human nature.

One reporter witnessing an electrocution was clear that this was not a job he wished to undertake to satisfy a morbid curiosity, but one that was of public interest. He complained that he actually saw very little other than the condemned rise in the chair. He said that the mask covered completely his facial expression, leaving him uncertain as to the level of suffering felt. He was not desiring this, but needed to assess it to report back. In any case we now know that facial expression is not necessarily an accurate guide. For those who are curious, in the case of George Stinney, the mask fell from the poor child's face as it was too big, revealing tears boiling on his cheeks.

I believe this is both to allow the condemned some dignity and spare witnesses. In the case of George Stinney jr it fell off, owing to his head being too small and witnesses saw the boiling tears on the cheeks of a child being electrocuted.

@@Verge63 They were hounded out. It is one of the most shameful pages in the country's history.What was alleged he did was a physical and practical impossibility. Guilt or innocence is utterly irrelevant. They executed a child.

Of course, but - forgive me - try telling that to the relatives of George Stinney or Willy Francis. There is no appeal from the grave.

Not true at all, 47.3% of people executed in the United States were either innocent or were not given a fair trial.

George Stinney wasn't even guilty 😢 smdh

@@kenancharles3531 That much was and remains obvious, yet a full recognition of this by the judiciary has not been forthcoming. The best that a recent jusicial enquiry could offer the child who had been fast tracked to the electric chair was the recognition that his trial was flawed and that a retrial should have been warrented. The only country I am aware of that openly executed a child was England once in the middle ages.

Well, some of these cause celebres haven't.

I agree completely. The most painful deaths possible typically involve burning in some way. As for drowning, it’s just a personal fear of mine also. It’s such a panic-inducing way to go. Our body naturally responds to it with an impending sense of doom. The electric chair definitely offers sensations similar to burning alive and it can cause the body to erupt in flames if it goes wrong. 😳💖

How many?

​@@herzfeldjiThe major one who springs to mind would be George Stinney Jr. Absolutely devastating story. He was 14 at the time..

@@WilDBeestMF Really? You want to bring up what happened in 1944? You know what else happened during those times? About 60 million deaths in total from a certain little war.

There is no evidence that even one innocent person was executed after the death penalty was reinstated in the 1970s. It most likely happened in the pre-Furman era, back then inmates were executed hastily and there were less appeals and no DNA testing, so I'm sure it happened. But nowadays there is so much scrutiny and executions are not as frequent, there is little to no chance innocent people get executed in the U.S. in modern times. In most states a person isn't even eligible for the death penalty unless it's beyond all reasonable doubt a person is guilty, and the jury must be unanimous when recommending the death penalty.

@@dopecat4012 What relevance does this have to an innocent boy being falsely executed? Make it make sense.

I finally caught that error last night. I was so mad at myself, but I had to let it go. Lol💖

@@JadeExplainsDeath oh yeah it was just funny, well he did work in a chocolate factory if I remember correctly. (I'm wrong it was Dahmer) Did you ever check out any stories of yuma territorial prison? It's one of my favorites to research.

Until you realise that the brain continues to live for 10 minutes only dying due to starvation of oxygen going to it. Pain is likely to still be there from the neck up only you can't voice it due to the absence of vocal cords. You are also very much aware of the sights and sounds since all of your brain still continues to function after it's severed. That 10 minutes is going to be the longest of your whole life.

I believe the need for successive drops is what put the guillotine in the annals of history. I mean, people are still stoned. Now THAT'S gotta suck! If the guillotine is no longer used, but stoning is, that may point at its inefficiency as an execution method.

True. The case of George Stinney Jr. comes to mind. His story is about as tragic as it gets. He was also the youngest(14) to ever be executed in the states.💔

I think you might be right. The only part that gets to me about that one is the fact that the brain remains alive and aware for several seconds after. Honestly though, I would take it over the electric chair.

@@JadeExplainsDeath Also reliably severs the carotid arteries instantly cutting off blood flow, and cranial blood pressure drops to zero, causing unconsciousness

And rarely botched

@@JadeExplainsDeath Yes, I would. A few words on the brain being alive. In theory this is true, although I understand that the blow rendered from the falling blade is more than sufficient to render the condemned unconscious.

@@JadeExplainsDeath The blow from the blade knocks you unconscious before beheading you milliseconds later. It was cutting edge for its time and seems to have remained so. Last used in 1978. France was a little late in joining its European neighbours in abolishing the death penalty, though no less resolute.

I echo your comment, but without the question mark.

Core Memory Unlocked! I remember that special. Honestly, some after school specials were really interesting!💖

@@JadeExplainsDeath the interview on the after-school special was in fact John Evans on the day of his execution but hours before he died.

@@JadeExplainsDeath ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WelWpqFVShM.html very interesting

@@Lee-Darin Just one more cock up with an unreliable method of execution.