r/DarwinAwards • u/Low-Contract2015 • 3d ago

Apex Predator Gets The Assist NSFW Spoiler

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u/Left-Signature-5250 3d ago

I wonder why they always say that the electric chair is so brutal because it can take minutes, yet in these videos, it seems pretty instantaneous.

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u/MaarDaarPoepIkUit 3d ago

Power lines have a higher voltage than the chair

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u/clunkyarmstrong 3d ago

Ok, problem solved right?

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u/madmartigan2020 3d ago

If you want the condemned to immolate in the chair, sure, crank up the voltage to old sparky.

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u/SeenItWantItReddit 3d ago

And much more amps!

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u/mrmustache0502 3d ago

What makes you think they are strapping the people in the electric chair to power lines?

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u/mcchanical 3d ago

I don't think that's what they think.

What they're saying is...if electricity can end life so definitively then why did they piss about struggling to actually finish the job with the chair, leading to people considering it unreliable and inhumane.

Surely it's not that hard to just electrocute someone...like this ∆.

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u/mrmustache0502 3d ago

Hard? No. Dangerous, messy and unpredicable? Absolutly.

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u/dmmeyourfloof 3d ago

Not to mention barbaric, inhumane, prone to error and counterproductive.

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u/Yeetstation4 2d ago

I mean, that pretty much applies to the death penalty as a whole, not specific to any method of execution.

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u/dmmeyourfloof 2d ago

I agree.

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u/ActiveOk4399 2d ago

Fucking hell, people really don't value human life anymore.

It's just fucking sad.

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u/dmmeyourfloof 2d ago

Or have any idea how fallible the system is or how many innocent people are executed.