• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      The thing about a bullet, is someone has to shoot it. The crane could be set on a timer, so nobody has to feel guilty for pulling the trigger.

      • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        That’s a thought. 🙂

        Guilt for administering a death has been thought of before; that’s part of the reason why there’s a firing ‘squad’. You have however many people with lethal rounds, and however many people with dummy/blank rounds, so nobody knows for sure whose bullets were live & killed him.

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      11 months ago

      I doubt running a crane or gantry for an hour costs very much. You could add guide rails, á la guillotine.

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        11 months ago

        I mean you need to build one of these things everywhere you execute people… And they need to operate every time you execute someone.

        At that point just use a guillotine.

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        11 months ago

        Youd need to design a pretty good fall room that can handle frequent dropping and cleanup is a mix of dust, rubble and human body

        The bullet is better. Though guillotine work as well and had style points.

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          11 months ago

          Maybe something like the trash compactor from Star Wars but with a rocket sled acceleration of one of the walls?