Today’s Gently Roused Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
The French appear to have been unique in keeping the condemned from knowing the exact date of execution. Very early on the morning of execution, he was gently roused by two guards, who did not wear shoes and went in for him at the last minute. One sees this quite clearly in gruesome footage, shot clandestinely from an atelier window, of the last guillotining in France, included in the A&E documentary The Executioners. The condemned, who is quickly led out a doorway and up three stairs, is rumpled from a night’s sleep and only gradually conscious of his impending execution, which is conducted with extreme haste.
Culled from: The Last Face You’ll Ever See
So, what do you think? Is it more humane to allow someone to know their date of execution – and anticipate it as it approaches – or to surprise them?
If they were sentence to death then i think they shouldn’t know since their victims weren’t told when they were going to die so why should murderers be given a chance to prepare let them sit and become paranoid in the shadow of death where everytime they hear the guards they sweat thinking they’re coming to get them to be executed let them live under the motto…live everyday like its your last
Agree. Also it probably cuts down on a lot of last-minute histrionics (like Charles Campbell from a few days ago) and also doesn’t give the crybabies a chance to camp out near the prison waving their little signs. Probably makes it hard for lawyers though.
I think that they should go back to olden days where you died the day your sentence was handed down. Forget this stupid practice of appealing. More people die of natural death on death row then are actually executed!
@Kelley Yes, because then innocent people like Damien Echols would have been murdered the day of the conviction, instead of eventually going free. *That’s* better.