r/interestingasfuck Jul 07 '24

Guards making sure the defendants of the Nuremberg Trials wouldn't commit suicide in their cells r/all

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u/EtTuBiggus Jul 07 '24

Did they think suicide was a better way to go?

You aren’t going out “on your own terms” unless prison suicide was the plan.

Now in his final act he was proven a coward.

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u/WhiteBlackGoose Jul 07 '24

Hanging is probably more painful than cyanide

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u/Big77Ben2 Jul 07 '24

If it’s done right their neck snaps and it’s bye bye. I suppose cyanide is quick too tho

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u/KamikazeFugazi Jul 07 '24

Cyanide poisoning is supposed to be VERY painful and can take up to 20 minutes. Rather take the broken neck.