The False Evolution of Execution Methods

Since you have been condemned to die at dawn, you must yourself attempt to stop the sun. | Support me on Nebula and watch all of my exclusive videos: Nebula Exclusive- Revisiting My College Paper on Lethal Injections: Watch THIS video on Nebula: Patreon: Twitter: Merch: Cover of “Générique” from Lift to the Gallows performed by Henry Walsh Sources: Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Austin Sarat, 2014) Lethal Injections and the False Promise of Humane Executions (Austin Sarat, 2022) A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays (Marc Bookman, 2021) Discipline and Punish (Michel Foucault, 1975) Report of the Commission to Investigate and Report the Most Humane and Practical Method of Carrying into Effect the Sentence of Death in Capital Cases (Gerry, Southwick, Hale 1888) The Lynching Era and Contemporary Lethal Police Shootings in the South. (Lyons, C. J., Painter-Davis, N., & Medaris, D. C., 2022): Ignoring the Past: Coverage of Slavery and Slave Patrols in Criminal Justice Texts. (K. B. Turner, David Giacopassi & Margaret Vandiver, 2006): Medieval Torture with Dana Schwartz (You’re Wrong About, 2022): Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (Equal Justice Initiative, 2017): How a New York Tabloid Captured the First Photo of an Execution by the Electric Chair (Robert Klara, 2023): So Long as They Die: Lethal Injections in the United States (Human Rights Watch, 2006): Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty (Ngozi Ndulue, 2020): Autopsy Photos from Botched Florida Execution Released (Death Penalty Information Center, 2014): Botched Executions Database (Death Penalty Information Center, 2022): Death Penalty Support Holding at Five-Decade Low (Jeffrey M. Jones, 2021): The Cruel and Unusual Execution of Clayton Lockett (Jeffrey Stern, 2015): Oklahoma executes inmate who dies vomiting and convulsing (Sean Murphy, 2021): Police Shootings Database (Washington Post, 2023): Above the Law: The Data Are In on Police, Killing, and Race (Lyman Stone, 2020): The Return of the Firing Squad (Maurice Chammah, 2022): 300 Protest Execution at Prison Gate as Killer Dies (LA Times, 1967): protest execution at prison gate&match=1 Innocence (Death Penalty Information Center, 2023): Biomechanics of Judicial Hanging: A Case Report (L. Nokes, A. Roberts, D. James, 1999): Music Used (Chronologically): Fallow Deer (Martin Klem), Stepping on Glass (Eneide), Biological Evidence (Alan Carlson-Green), Trivalve (Ethan Sloan), Indigo (Christophe Gorman), Behind the Curtains (Skrya), Dark Times (Etienne Roussel), Ambivalent Thoughts (Magnus Ringblom), Nocturne in G Minor (Chopin), Dead (HEALTH- Max Payne 3), Implode (Peter Sandberg), Translucency (Rikard From), Générique (Henry Walsh) Thumbnail and Graphic Design by Description Credit: “Death Sentence” by Polly Chase Additional music by Epidemic Sound Additional Footage by Getty Images