Death Penalty Around the World: Six Ways to Die

Many countries use the Death Penalty as a social device to inhibit hideous crimes (following the country's parameters of what is hideous). Although no Scientific Study demonstrates any reduction in criminal activities provoked by the presence of the Death Penalty, those countries still use that barbaric ritual. What countries are those, and which are the ways to be cruelly assassinated by the Government?

FUSILADED

A Fusillade Squad is positioned 6 meters in front of the person sentenced to the Death Penalty. Usually using rifles, the Squad fires all the weapons simultaneously at a standing or sit victim. It is a popular way to die in war crimes. Even countries that doesn't have the Death Penalty institutionalized in their culture, opens exceptions in Wars.

In that case, the victim is shot from multiple directions being wounded in multiple places. The condemned dies from the hemorrhage of various organs or, if the victim is lucky, a bullet reaches the brain, what means in most cases, instantaneous death. Specialists classify this pain and suffering as average. In my opinion, it is very easy to classify pain as average when you were not the one shot multiple times to death.

The places that still use that Capital Punishment are USA, Somalia, Taiwan, Uzbequistan, Guatemala and Vietnam.

STONED TO DEATH

The Death Penalty Sentence "stoned to death" is usually applied to criminals that attempted against the honor of women in Muslin countries, and tradition make the male family members of the victim and male members of the local community, the killers of the condemned to death.

The death penalty condemned is wrapped in a sheet and thrown into a hole. The executioners stand around the hole and throw rocks on the condemned.

As a ritual designed to be cruel, the death penalty "stoned to death" makes every effort to make the death long and painful. The condemned dies mostly by the rocks that smite his head.

The places with that death penalty are: Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

HANGED

In the death penalty "hanged", the rope is boiled, twisted and lubricated with soap before tied around the condemned's neck. The condemned, with the rope around his neck, wait for the trapdoor under his feet to open and hang his body to death by the neck. When the death is fast, the spine breaks in the moment that the condemned is hanged, along with the medulla, and in that case, the victim dies in less than 60 seconds.

Specialists say that this death penalty is the most human and least painful way to die, if the sadistic ritual of hanging is correctly executed. In cases where the executioners make the rope too long, the condemned might take more than 20 minutes to die (in that case, by choking) and the pain and suffering are maximized.

The places that still have the hanging as a Capital Punishment are: USA, China, Guatemala and Iraq.

ELECTRIC CHAIR

The condemned to the death penalty "electric chair" is tied to a chair with leather stripes. His body had already been shaved to avoid flaming hair. The executioner binds electrodes wet in a saline solution on the legs and head of the condemned to death, and a metal helmet is placed over the head.

After blindfolding the death penalty condemned, the executioner activates the chair and releases at least two discharges from 500 to 2000 volts. If the condemned survives, the executioner repeats the process until the victim dies.

The victim's suffering is related to the time he takes to die, varying from average to high pain. The only country that uses the Capital Punishment "electric chair" is the USA.

DECAPITATION

In the Death Penalty "decapitation", the victim is placed standing or sit, and the executioner uses a sword to cut his head off. A good executioner can provide a fast and "merciful" death with just one blow. But, if the executioner is not that professional and the victim's vertebrae and muscles are too tight, the executioner may need more blows, what may increase exponentially the suffering.

The death happens when the medulla is cut. In that case, the breathing and heartbeat cease immediately.

The places that still apply the "decapitation" as a death penalty are: Saudi Arabia, China, Guatemala and Iraq.

LETHAL INJECTION

When the death penalty condemned is tied over a bed, the executioners place two probes in the veins on his arms. One of them has an isotonic solution that will latter be replaced by poison, and the second one is a fail safe, in case of failure of the system.

First, a sedative is released in the condemned's veins. When the victim sleeps, curare
(a powerful paralyzing toxin) is injected in the victim, and in the end, potassium chloride. After the potassium, the heart stops and the victim dies from 5 to 7 minutes. Specialists guarantee that the pain is minimal and that it is one of the most human means to death penalty.

The places that apply "lethal injection" as a death penalty are: USA, China and Guatemala.

In an overall view, the countries that execute more prisoners through death penalty are: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, USA and Pakistan.