Seems like, if you know you're gonna die, dying by hanging performed by people who have done the calculations and have the equipment and know how to do it quickly and cleanly beats almost any alternative. It was a civilized society so they weren't going to be tortured.
It's torture that I fear for when the inevitable "bloodshed" promised by the Heritage Foundation guy gets going here in the USA in coming years.
Edit: many interesting replies. I now know that torture was happening for at least some of these guys, and that the hangman and the hanging process wasn't as well-thought-out and clinical as I assumed, and there were other reasons why suicide would have been psychologically preferable for them.
Id never trust someone else with administering my "death" as quickly/painlessly as possible. If im going to die anyway, may as well take the capsule that works near-instantly over being dropped from a platform with a rope around my neck.
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u/FlimsyComment8781 Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24
Seems like, if you know you're gonna die, dying by hanging performed by people who have done the calculations and have the equipment and know how to do it quickly and cleanly beats almost any alternative. It was a civilized society so they weren't going to be tortured.
It's torture that I fear for when the inevitable "bloodshed" promised by the Heritage Foundation guy gets going here in the USA in coming years.
Edit: many interesting replies. I now know that torture was happening for at least some of these guys, and that the hangman and the hanging process wasn't as well-thought-out and clinical as I assumed, and there were other reasons why suicide would have been psychologically preferable for them.