This is a wholly opinionated question, so any answers (even those based on statistics) will be opinionated as well. That said, the electric chair is painful and, while generally short, malfunctions have caused some people to suffer for several minutes before death. However, while lethal injection is intended to be a painless, fast, nonviolent form of death, there have been several occasions where errors have resulted in excruciating (and sometimes theatrical) deaths. Mechanical malfunction and human error are the most common causes of botched executions, but if you were to compare a perfect electrocution against a perfect lethal injection, the latter would be the only painless procedure between the two.
No. Colorado only uses lethal injection
Each state uses either the electric chair or gives the prisoner a lethal injection of poison with a needle.
Lethal injection is the most common, but they also use the electric chair and hanging.
It was thought that electrocuting people would be more humane than shooting them or cutting off their heads or some other method of execution. It is not. It sends a massive jolt of electricity throughout the body to kill humans; and as shown in the film The Green Mile, if done improperly, it can burn people alive. Most places have replaced the electric chair with lethal injection which is the most humane known way to execute someone. It's like putting a sick animal to sleep. Answer 2: The purpose of the electric chair is execution by electrocution. It is used as a means of execution for criminals given the death penalty in the United States. Currently death by lethal injection is used more often than the electric chair.
Usually life in prison or death(lethal injection,hanging,electric chair, etc.)
86.3% are killed from lethal injections12.4% are killed from the electric chairothers- gas chamber, hanging, or fire squad, but that rarely ever happensIt depends entirely on where you are in the world. In America, its via the electric chair or lethal injection. In Pacific countries, methods such as beheading and hanging occur. Some countries, like Iran, don't prosecute people who stone others to death for breaking Muslim laws.
Nowadays, the instrument used for death penalty is the lethal injection. Before, we have the electric chair, hanging and guillotine.
There were 52 execution in the United States in 2009. 51 by lethal injection and 1 by electric chair (Virginia).
Because it violates the Constitution. There is no cruel or unusual punishment. The murderers that do get executed are killed in humane ways, like lethal injection, electric chair, or hanging. If a murderer killed a guy by drowning him, then slitting his throat, the government can't kill the guy by doing that because it is cruel and not humane.
Yes it was, and although most states now customarily use lethal injection or lethal gas for executions, in some states it is still an option that the condemned may choose.
Here are the modern ways of execution in the USA by order of usage Lethal Injection Electric Chair Gas Chamber Firing Squad Hanging
i belive that you can request a hanging instead of lethal injection/electric chair so that you can donate your organs.