Hanging
Most of the judicial hangings today opt for the long drop method. Here is a historical overview of the other methods employed in public hangings. The long drop is designed to break the person's neck by allowing him/her to fall a pre-determined distance and is then brought up in a sharp jerk by pulling on the rope. The drop is calculated based on the person's height, weight and physique.
"At the end of the drop the body is still accelerating under the force of the gravity but the head is contrained by the noose which delivers a massive blow to the back and the side of the neck, which combined with the downward momentum of the body, breaks the neck and ruptures the spinal cord causing instant deep unconsciousness and rapid death." The eyelet used in the noose is positioned under the angle of the left jaw such that the head is snapped backward with such force that the posterior aspect of the forarm magnum cuts the spinal cord at the 2nd/3rd or 4th/5th vertebrae, causing unconsciousness in about a second. So, even if complete death took more than 15-20 minutes, the person wouldn't be able to feel the pain - if done correctly.
Miscalculation of the drop can have serious consequences. A longer than ideal drop can cause decapitation and a shorter drop, strangulation. For more details check out the article how does death by hanging work at howstuffworks. So if you are thinking about hanging yourself, think again!
There is a lot of controversy around the recent execution of the Iraqi former leader Saddam Hussain. At least they showed the courtesy of getting the execution procedure right.
Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/16352540.htm
UPDATE (15th January): And they didn't show the same courtesy towards his half brother, Barzan Ibrahim, who got decapitated during his execution today - BBC link.
Tara!
"At the end of the drop the body is still accelerating under the force of the gravity but the head is contrained by the noose which delivers a massive blow to the back and the side of the neck, which combined with the downward momentum of the body, breaks the neck and ruptures the spinal cord causing instant deep unconsciousness and rapid death." The eyelet used in the noose is positioned under the angle of the left jaw such that the head is snapped backward with such force that the posterior aspect of the forarm magnum cuts the spinal cord at the 2nd/3rd or 4th/5th vertebrae, causing unconsciousness in about a second. So, even if complete death took more than 15-20 minutes, the person wouldn't be able to feel the pain - if done correctly.
Miscalculation of the drop can have serious consequences. A longer than ideal drop can cause decapitation and a shorter drop, strangulation. For more details check out the article how does death by hanging work at howstuffworks. So if you are thinking about hanging yourself, think again!
There is a lot of controversy around the recent execution of the Iraqi former leader Saddam Hussain. At least they showed the courtesy of getting the execution procedure right.
Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/16352540.htmUPDATE (15th January): And they didn't show the same courtesy towards his half brother, Barzan Ibrahim, who got decapitated during his execution today - BBC link.
Tara!
12 Comments:
huh ?
i just cant blv i read the post ...
every word of it ...
and followed all the links u gave ...
guess my curiosity got the better of me ...
coz thats a lot of info about something i dont wanna educate myself on ...
hehe ...
There was a very informative feature article on Scientific American years ago about the various methods of execution - Hanging, Lethal injection, Gas chamber, Electric chair... all in gory detail. Interestingly I remember the details of each method, the chemicals, the voltage used. Maybe it will come handy one day :P Like the gas chamber method - a potassium cynide crystal dropped into sulphuric acid, Now thats something we can do in Maldives - just need to smuggle a little bit of the two chemicals out of CHSE lab :P I think lethal injection is the least scary... but I wouldn't know.
Anyway, with regard to Saddam, it's sadder that so many innocent people got killed in a war waged against one man or for political/economic benefit.
And yeah overdosing on pills ain't as easy as some books and movies might make it appear. According to Nip/Tuck you have to have a cold glass of milk with your lethal cocktail to prevent painful retching and a plastic bag over your head eases your transition to the land of the dead. It's like I always say, if you wanna do sumthin' do it right. You would've made a great officer at Auschwitz Jaa lol :P
This blog has gotta take the award for the most boring blog of the decade. Can't you write anything without copy-pasting stuff?
Now I can understand you doing a bit of research on stuff but you seem to have directly lifted off articles without bothering to even change anything, much less... reference it.
If you don't have any opinions of your own just don't bother blogging. Anybody can come and paste school assignments here. It's unoriginal as well as bloody boring.
I hope you take this on board and put in some effort to actually "blogging" instead of loading in junk you "steal" from god knows where.
It's not like we don't know how to GOOGLE here.
Maybe someone should teach you the abc of blogging... a step by step tutorial might help you master this art form.
By the way, it's a pain to read your tedious and unnatural writing style, made even worse by the fact that you sound exactly like a textbook. Perhaps this has got something to do with your unadulterated disregard for plagiarism.
Abba, if I do lift off sentences then they are qouted and the references provided as a link to those articles :P.
Of course there are different styles of writing and just because YOU don't like my style doesn't give me enough reason to change it.
I want to provide readers with an introduction to the stuff that I find fascinating and don't want them clouded up with my opinion. Why? Because opinions, yours or mine, are irrelevant. Scientific facts are.
And in case you don't already know there are no set rules and regulations to blogging. You write whatever you feel like writing.
Dear, I do agree that there are no set rules for blogging but the whole purpose of blogging is to express yourself in some way. I would expect you to at least rephrase the sentences you are "borrowing" instead of plagiarising the whole thing. That's a bit unprofessional, don't you think?
I beg to differ where you have said that you have quoted references because you seriously have not done it, spare a few occasional loose pointers here and there.
Now you have some nice blog entries like Riha folhi or something, popping up some where along your blog, eventhough it's a mere three lines. I have no complaints about that. I loved reading every bit in it including the punctuation marks, not to mention the wonderful photography that you provided for the entertainment of us already tormented readers. Now that's what I call blogging. Anyway, looking through the photos on the blog does provide a nice little break for those who have endured through the experience of reading some painfullly bad pieces of writing(very well deserved break, I might add)
Opinions are irrelevent? Haha. Sorry, I had to laugh at that. I almost choked on my own saliva when I initially read that line.
Well, if I am not wrong most of the stuff you are writing about is copied from various psychology textbooks. If you indeed want to give us background information on a certain topic, I would appreciate it if you wrote it in your own words instead of reproducing a carbon copy of fragments of text from an unacknowledged source which is unethical in every sense, not to mention how you are only providing the reader with only half baked ideas which can only mislead the readers and shroud them in more confusion and ambiguity(if it does serve any purpose indeed) since most of us normally don't go around reading psychology texts from cover to cover. You may question yourself(and indeed be puzzled as to) why some of us might not take delight in the wonders of that art form, and in rhetorical reply to it, in true pompous fashion, I must say that it's not what mere(normal?) mortals like us consider as "our idea of a fun time".
The technical details of such topics are not as interesting as the highly debatable issues surrounding it. There are lots of controversial issues that can be discussed with every topic that you have introduced in your blog. So opinions are indeed very important in psychology since it is an evolving field where more and more research is being done and nothing is as clear cut as some of the other pure sciences. You could have shed some light on these things by sharing with us your professional opinion on these areas instead of taking the lazy arse route out of the situation by perhaps fooling some of the "un-thinking" readers amongst us into thinking this material has any actual input by the blogger which it obviously does not have.
You could have livened up and indeed spiced up your blog by bringing in your own creative flair but I guess you still can't think outside the box and have to constantly rely on your trusty li'l school textbooks. Trying too hard to sound like a well read scholar while you are not one, only leaves you sounding like a pseudo-intellectual who has no idea what they are blabbering on about, which is quite a sorry sight to behold, not to mention how pathetic it is. Truely, in all glory, a very weak-arse attempt at trying to sound even remotely intelligent is watered down by complete self-absoprtion and indulgence, the operative words here being "weak-arse" and "attempt". Although, I might add, that "some intellectuals" like yourself might argue the point out to death as to whether "weak-arse" is actually one word or two. *shrugs*.... I'll let you figure that one out, although the answer to it is blindingly obvious like the light rays of the sun in the morning glory, what's the story!?...errmm losing the plot here, are we? ... a true pop-idol death, I must say.
If you were going to hit us with technical details that are already available in abundance on the Internet as well as in many local libraries, I don't think it was necessary to start a blog for it.
You claim you have an "interest" in this subject area. So will I be too presumptuous in thinking that you might actually have something constructive or of significance to "say" about these topics that you like to hit the readers with, for whatever depraved reasons you might have, the least of which might be to come across as an intellectual?
I think it would be better introducing the topic in a simple manner in your own words and then providing the reader with a link that might have more detailed explaination, simply because textbook definitions aren't really what people are looking for here.
The true spirit of blogging lies not in brutally butchering what is already out there and then spitting it out after putting it together with super glue in the original form it was in, to begin with(highly "original", aye?)
Putting in your own opinion, ideas and your takes on whatever topic you introduce is key to making a great read. You maybe quite new to this whole blogging thing(and indeed to critical literature and writing pieces in English in general!) and perhaps you may, in time, blossom into a charmingly wonderful blogger who can provide us readers exciting material(certainly miracles have indeed occured in the past. So sweat not, me dear! There's still hope for ya)
However, right now, reading what you claim to have "written" is like watching paint dry on a chilly winter morning and BELIEVE ME it's not very fun either. Anyway, let's see what your future entries are like. I hope you'll make rapid progress in improving in this department with a little help and "push" from critics like us.
I don't hide the fact that I can't stand your present writing style(together with your unashamed butchering and plagiarism) but I must admit that I am quite looking forward to see how you improve your future blog entries. By the way, I quite admire the way you have taken so positively to my criticism.
i find your articles very interesting! so is the style .keep writing nadha!
Abba, I haven't given any book references because my blog entries are a product of online research, and are limited to wikipedia, journal articles and other resources that are readily available online to the visitors without a need for subsciption/fee. The theories and research are not my own product so I have attempted to deliver a summarized version as accurately as they were reported while linking the reader up to my information sources, and whenever available, the original articles.
The rest are your opinions - not of any significance to me.
dear master-blogger-abba,
with all the due respect, i just want to drop in in my "weak-arse" two cents here, just for u. :)
u know, i still remember the first day i looked up the dictionary to find the meaning of a word called "retard".. years passed by, unfortunately, i havent been able to meet anybody who possess such qualities that was described in the word's meaning.. UNTIL JUST NOW! i'm glad you came my way! :) oh and before i forget, its a pleasure meeting you :)
from your words, i assume that you would have a oh-man-this-is-so-cool-wow! blog.. if so, could you could direct me and everyone else towards how to enrich our blogs and write good posts and learn what bloggin is really like? i would really appreciate if you could share your blog url with us.
well, i guess thats all i want to say for now. oh and hey! i am shivering right now, u know why? i fear i may have plagiarized something in this little piece of note i've written for u here.. a thousand apologies, if so. hmm, no! no apologies. not worth someone who chose to criticise being anonymous. proves what a coward you are, mate!
auf wiedersehen!
[Author's Note: the above comment is just a mere attempt to improve my skill of writing english and is not any sort of attack against a(n) innocent soul(s) that may exist in this galaxy]
Abba, you know what I like to do when something I don't care for comes on TV? Turn it off!
So, unless someone pierced your scrotal sac with a rusted hoop and somehow tied you upside down from it over a screen so that the only thing you can see is Nadha's blog everyday through the haze of sweat dripping into your eyes there's really no reason why you should rag on her like this.
If that's indeed the case then by all means continue to do so.
I find this blog very interesting with good quality stuff about brain :) that gives me information that i am not aware of. Well done nadhaa, and keep up the good work.
OK Abba. u need many many years of therapy and i think u need to go out and enjoy a life with real human beings. no offense , but i bet u cant find these words from any other page on the web. seriously you wasted sometime on saying your self that no one will real your comment at least in full. bummer!!
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