If you were to be executed, could you walk to the gallows?

AckwelFoley · 08-10-2008 01:23PM

I dont have a culchie accent you inner city ghetto fiend.

Jumpy · 08-10-2008 01:26PM

Jigsaw wrote: »

Ever seen Braveheart?

Well just like that.

Except it would be more like

FREEEDGHRKH

púca-mór · 08-10-2008 01:41PM

tallus wrote: »

Can't see myself walking calmly but who knows what would happen ...
Apparently you crap and piss yourself when you're hung (Source : I heard it on Xbox Live so it must be true )

In reality i think i'd do that before i was hung.

Ya'd like to think you'd be all composed, and could make an empassioned speech which would stir the crowd and make them feel bad about my death, and then lead to the downfall of the tyrannical system that had killed me... in reality though i would probably sob out some pathetic whine which nobody could hear then lose control of my bodily functions, collapsing on the gallows in a pool of my own waste. People would react to this with disgust and actively support the tyrannical damn good regime which put me to death.

Soby · 08-10-2008 01:47PM

taram wrote: »

Think if I was guilty I'd probably accept my fate, if innocent I'd be trying to bite/kick/scratch everyone in sight, then try and run off or something

sure why not..whats the worst they do to ya for fighting back...other than (god forbid) they decide to kill ya

tony1kenobi · 08-10-2008 03:39PM

The_Minister wrote: »

If there was no escape, then I would go in as dignified a manner as possible.

I'd even ask them to tie my legs together once I was up there, and had given my speach.

I was grand till you said I had to give a speech. Like I haven't enough to think about with having my head lobbed off and trying not to soil myself......

Wibbs · 08-10-2008 04:10PM

If it was the guillotine, then I would not be a happy camper as one dr in a weird experiment back in the 1890's I believe found that the bodyless head appeared to be conscious for several seconds if not longer. Oh yep here it is... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine#Living_heads That would be a very very long several seconds to the condemned. Under moments of high stress the mind stretches time. Shudder doesn't begin to describe it.

In the case of hanging, then I'd be happier, but only if it was the proper long drop method. In that case it's like decapitation but the shock of the drop is likely to cause deep coma then rapid brain death. IMHO it's the most humane way of execution. The oul lift them up from the ground a la the mad mullahs in Iran is not a pleasant way to go at all, unless you're very lucky and you conk out fast from shock(same with old style kick away a box from under the victim).

Indie18 · 08-10-2008 04:22PM

oh kicking and screaming please............. the when asked if i had any last words i would reply. yeah yor ma.

mountainyman · 08-10-2008 04:31PM

Darragh29 wrote: »

Just watching something on RTE, some film where a lad was being executed by guillotine and walks up the steps no bother and nods at the executioner, a few lads help him into the guillotine and away he goes.

If this was happening you, say it was 120 years ago in Dublin and you were being hung or executed in public for murder or treason or whatever, could you accept your faith and calmly walk up to your place of execution and stay composed until the deed was done or would you be one of those people that needed ten people to drag you kicking and screaming up to the rope???

I think I'd be the latter...

If I was being hanged for releasing a spoken word record of my extreme right wing political beliefs i could definitely walk up to the gallows.

(ws actually going to say 'for ireland' but that's so old fashioned)

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 08-10-2008 04:34PM

Wibbs wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine#Living_heads

Have heard about that before... Very creepy stuff!

Smart Bug · 08-10-2008 04:36PM

Reckon I'd be tempted to start singing

"Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while
I think I see my friends comin
Ridin a many mile
Friends, did you get a little silver?
Did you get a little gold?
What did you bring me, dear friends
To keep me from the Gallows Pole?"

Aodan83 · 09-10-2008 10:33AM

If i felt i deserved the death penalty (which is unlikely), I'd like to think I'd be all calm. If not, I'd be doin my damnedest to take as many of the b*stards as i could with me.

ScumLord · 09-10-2008 11:04AM

Kicking and screaming, crying, I'd put a pox on all their houses, I'd bite anyone involved if possible, I'd curse every fupper in the room, find God, make deals with the devil and mess myself if all else failed.

púca-mór · 09-10-2008 01:05PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Kicking and screaming, crying, I'd put a pox on all their houses

Good call... nothing like spitting vehement curses!
So vehement you spit out the curse on their heads and a little bit of bile too...:o

thefinalstage · 09-10-2008 03:26PM

Kicking ans screaming all the way. I get to tell people what I think of them before I die and have a right old laugh doing it. Plus everyone releases their bowels when they die, no amount of dignity before hand will prevent that.

Indie18 · 09-10-2008 03:51PM

thelastangryman wrote: »

Kicking ans screaming all the way. I get to tell people what I think of them before I die and have a right old laugh doing it. Plus everyone releases their bowels when they die, no amount of dignity before hand will prevent that.

best thing to do then seeing as you dignity is doomed anyway is to request to be executed in the nude so sombody has a good auld mess to clean up after your gone.

Dinter · 09-10-2008 04:08PM

Sure it's fine. Just remember to ask for the more popular vowels first like A or E and once you've filled in a couple of blanks try the more difficult consonants. There's probably an S in there too and V is more popular than you'd think.

Don't worry though you get plenty of chances before the rope goes over your head and when you get it right you get freed by the executioner, 5 guineas from the warden and an hour with the Governor's daughter. Piece of cake really.

If you were to be executed, could you walk to the gallows?

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