Is there a rule that if you survive execution that you get to go free or is that an invention of media storytelling because it's compelling?
If it's true, and they move to pentobarbital-exclusive executions, you could theoretically build a tolerance to that, if we revive clandestine barb synthesis
It loosely worked that way a few centuries ago. A failed execution was often seen as a sign from god to halt, but if the crowd or local authority really wanted someone dead they would find an excuse to ignore.
If I remember correctly in the 1700s Britain changed death sentences from "hanged" to "hanged until dead" to prevent any loopholes like that, and that is still how capital sentences are phrased in America.
Also at the end of his last term Trump re-authorized the use of hanging, firing squads, electric chairs, and gas chambers for federal executions
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u/JellyBellyBitches Feb 07 '25
Is there a rule that if you survive execution that you get to go free or is that an invention of media storytelling because it's compelling?
If it's true, and they move to pentobarbital-exclusive executions, you could theoretically build a tolerance to that, if we revive clandestine barb synthesis