It's a gross way to kill someone. I'm surprised they can find employees willing to pull the switch, or doctors willing to be present. I've seen a video of someone being killed in the electric chair, and it's fucking gruesome. It's not the criminal I'm worried about. It's the people who are alive and involved in killing the people or even there to witness it. No one should have anything to do with murdering another human being, and certainly not in this way.
It's nowhere near as gruesome as some of the crimes we read of. Not even close. No amount of 'fluff' will ever convince me that a person such as Ted Bundy, who died via the electric chair, deserved better.
As for the people that pull the switch... there are definitely some who have difficulty processing the ordeal, but I would think most feel they are providing a necessary service- much like lawyers who make up the defence team for the worst of what we have to offer.
If the witness is there for closure - I'd guess a relative or the like - and it gives them that, I'm for it without worries. Must take a lot of contemplation, courage perhaps (not to mention words I can't know from their side) to be there in those moments.
I'll tall ya this,there is know way I could "throw the switch" or even recomend(as a jurror) a death sentance even as angery as I get and and believe a death for a death I JUST DON'T KNOW IF IT'S MY PLACE TO TAKE A LIFE FOR PUNISHMENT........
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As for the people that pull the switch... there are definitely some who have difficulty processing the ordeal, but I would think most feel they are providing a necessary service- much like lawyers who make up the defence team for the worst of what we have to offer.
Godfather.