10 Horribly Botched Executions Through History

[@Dogdoc1000]

I am a veterinarian and euthanize pets . It goes smoothly. Matter of fact the process is so smooth there are veterinarians that will come to your house to perform the euthanasia. I think the problem with people is that many who are executed are aware what is happening and their adrenaline is pumping. It can be difficult to sedate/euthanize an aggressive or extremely frightened animal. In veterinary medicine if we need to euthanize a dangerous or aggressive animal we give them a large amount of sedative and make sure they are unconscious/anesthetized before attempting the Also if the pet has poor veins we give the anesthetized pet an injection of the euthanasia solution in the heart, liver or kidney. Rarely there will be an a final gasp but if you have ever seen a person or animal die naturally- a few gasps are common-the people or pets that are “agonal” gasping have dilated eyes and are not responsive. They are unconscious/dead and the gasp is just the bodies reflexes trying to continue to provide oxygen in a dying animal. The euthanasia solution works so well that it has become the go to drug for veterinarians considering suicide. Medical doctors are not trained for euthanasia and there has been no stringent protocols set up. The American Veterinary Medical Association has time tested guidelines on how to perform humane euthanasia for many different animals. I’m sure there are guidelines for primates because zoos and other facilities will sometimes need to euthanize primates for humane reasons. Just some fun facts on euthanasia.

[@Dogdoc1000]

@UCVJIad2nTLQ57p5A8c5EOdw yes I’ve heard of him. I’m not sure about assisted suicide.

[@emordnilap4747]

It's not just that doctors aren't trained for executions. One big issue is that doctors refuse to participate, so (in the US at least) the lethal injection is carried out by people without the proper medical training. Otherwise they could just put them under general anesthesia, to make sure. Another is the drugs used. They don't use something to put the prisoner to sleep anymore, just something to paralyze them, then something to stop their heart. I don't recall the drug names, but apparently the second feels like liquid fire running through your veins. Today any American executed by lethal injection dies, first paralyzed, and suffocating, then also feeling like they're being burned alive from the inside. Of course, it looks peaceful from the outside, so the witnesses aren't traumatized extra.That's when it goes right.

[@bettywiendels5714]

Canada has no death penalties. Most murderers are just sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. In my opinion, the prison staff who execute the killers are also the killers themselves. Maybe I am wrong. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@bettywiendels5714]

Centuries ago, the executioners were incredibly barbaric and cruel. I can’t imagine watching such horrible executions.

[@RogerDier]

This individual is more suited to be an auctioneer than a narrator. He has an incomprehensible accent and speaks too rapidly to be easily understood. A solid F for fail.

[@annefrankenstein9290]

"Ten horribly blah blah blah i dont need to read the title." lmaoooo I love you Simon, never change

[@ashleyrossman2712]

i’m so glad someone else said something about that 😂😂

[@broodingbymidnight]

i like your name 😅

[@KesMonkey]

"Ten horribly blah blah blah I don't need to read the title". :D So glad I found your channels.

[@GradeEhCanadian]

Welcome to simontube!

[@notmyrealname8282]

Your post “quote” matches your picture so well. Haha, I’m dead haha. Thank you for the laugh.

[@jamiehatcher9785]

😂

[@duncanglen3452]

A thumbs up for that intro 👌

[@jodyharnish9104]

I don't understand why veterinarians have been able to send our pets to sleep without problems for decades, but we have cases of failures with humans.

[@tanderson6442]

The NAZI’s performed executions just fine too.

[@tanderson6442]

@F**k KKKonservatives! at least conservatives don’t want to kill babies then groom the ones that live. 🤷🏼

[@TetsuShima]

This reminds me a lot the really disturbing scene of "The Green Mile" where a prisoner is executed in the electric chair without previously putting a wet sponge on him, causing him to die charred in slow agony. The worst thing here is that one of the young guards almost commits the stupid idea of stopping the execution while the man is horribly burned, but still alive

[@charlottehardy822]

Especially if you read the book rather than just seeing the film

[@robmanning6006]

You're comparing fiction to reality?

[@TetsuShima]

@@robmanning6006 It was pretty accurate despite being a fiction work

[@pawwalker3492]

@@charlottehardy822- Yes. I read the book, and cried so hard when they executed John Coffey. There's absolutely no way on Earth you could get me to watch that film.

[@ganrimmonim]

@pawwalker3492 why what's wrong with the film? Only seen snippets of it.

[@paulroberts3639]

Maybe the guillotine is not such a bad method of execution after all. The blade can’t miss, the head is always removed, ensuring death in under a minute….

[@genosisbear4305]

It’s clear now that the head lives on for a few seconds, realizing what had happened. No one could imagine what it must feel like, or what pain you go through. I saw a video from Brazil, a crowd decapitate a truck thief and holds his head up. The eyes closed after several seconds!

[@lone6718]

@@genosisbear4305 the human body still spasms after death, that doesn’t mean any one part is still alive.

[@paulroberts3639]

I know about the few seconds of life. But compared to an axman who doesn’t cut clean through, or bloody well misses. Creating a huge wound in the shoulder. The guillotine has to be a better option.

[@Grimlock1979]

The guillotine is in fact the most humane method of execution.

[@rygbiarth1209]

@@Grimlock1979Yep, was invented precisely to ensure more efficient and less painful mode of dispatch. Still find it a bit chilling that the last time it was used in France was as late as 1977, just prior to the abolishment of capital punishment there. Not quite in my living memory, but only a couple of years shy…

[@crashburn3292]

12:47 - "They removed her back to the execution chamber and a second firing squad completed the execution." This was 2002 and they had no one standing by with a stethoscope, or a least have the mercy guy who shoots them in the head at the end.

[@rsolsjo]

It was 1979.

[@giselematthews7949]

How about Margret Pole, the Duchess of Salisbury, in 1541. That was REALLY gross. Poor woman.

[@Jash0192]

What happened?

[@okok-kn6ee]

Tell me to

[@marcbeebee6969]

Lol ich will mehr hören.

[@okok-kn6ee]

@@Jash0192 so i looked it up my self...there wasn't a executioner in town so they let a 16yo boy do it, with no experience so in short he missed 11 times he hit her in the shoulder and back, and after the 11e time he finally hit her neck so it was a slaughter

[@naomiskilling1093]

@@okok-kn6ee Also she supposedly made it more difficult for the teenager by moving around and in some claims outright getting up and running away necessitating a chase and swings of the axe on her back as well. She was also 70 years old and the cousin of Henry VIII's mother making him her 1st cousin once removed.

[@CelticArmory]

You missed Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum. He was "hanged" in 1901. However his weight was calculated at the beginning of his trial and while waiting for his execution day he put on a lot of weight. The hangman also used too long of a drop and so when Ketchum was dropped, his head came off instead of just breaking his neck.

[@brenale_heartsJesus]

😳

[@VickyCooksalot]

There are some that probably could use a botched execution.

[@rogertrent9842]

A:LL democrats...

[@cierakitty]

I agree...especially those that tortured little kids before killing them

[@johnwick1883]

@@rogertrent9842 I was thinking Conservatives. The worst people.

[@awakeningEmpath]

@@rogertrent9842 this outrageous comment literally makes a mockery of democracy, y'all deserve a dictatorship

[@mattgreen7692]

Pedro Lopez. (Simon would agree)

[@tkmjees]

Is there a reason why carbon monoxide isn't used for executions? The subject wouldn't even realize when it has been introduced and simply passes out peacefully.

[@Narangarath]

It probably doesn't seem punish-y enough.

[@deborahosborne9426]

Tell that to Vegans etc 🙄

[@jakeg3126]

I’ve wondered that too, small sealed off room and just let them watch tv or play video games as they pump it in so they calmly go out

[@kingoreo3642]

I was going to comment the same thing. It’s a very peaceful way to go.

[@matthewdilger6755]

carbon monoxide is fine but it can induce a strong sense of panic, nausea and vomiting Nitrogen or any other inert gas is probably better.

[@angusfairtheoir]

"...it appears the perfect answer continues to be elusive." It doesn't. It's inert gas asphyxiation with nitrogen (or helium if you want lean into the comic aspect).

[@mariakelly90210]

Almost 20 years ago, there was a man in Illinois whose execution by lethal injection was so botched up ( it was called off after 90 minutes of progressively worse and worse failed attempts to insert the IV lines) that the governor of the state of Illinois at that time, so horrified about what happened, commutted the death sentences of every prisoner in Illinois to life without the possibility of parole.

[@marquisdelafayette1929]

I am a hard stick. Which I guess saved my life because I couldn’t “hit” myself. But it was always like that even beforehand and I’ve had them looking in my feet and had one in my neck and a few times in my inner wrist.. Now it seems those deeper lines they use ultrasound for are a lot better. But idk why they didn’t do a central line or have two lines. They used to do (prisons honestly probably still do) a procedure called a “cut down” where they shave and cut down til they expose the vein and insert it directly inside 😣 . They probably have untrained personnel inserting the lines and/or trying to use larger than their veins can fit or running it too fast causing it to blow and infiltrate so it’s pooling in nearby tissue. But I used to pay the homeless addicts to “hit me” and a lot would get it on first try, way better then 95% of medical personnel. I also don’t understand why, like are they short on the drugs? Because they relax you, then they paralyze you, then the 3rd med stops your heart. But the second drug you know and understand everything going on mentally but can’t move your physical body. I don’t get why they just don’t let ‘em OD. Take the fentanyl and just use that. I’ve ODed a few times and it was a few seconds of bliss and then… nothingness. Next thing I was waking extremely sick (narcan causes violent withdrawals). But if I die that is definitely the way to go.

[@ganrimmonim]

@marquisdelafayette1929 I think mainly they don't 'get it right', as were is because doctor aren't permitted (correctly) to participate in killing people.

[@stixx3969]

People OD on Heroin everyday. Just give them a hot dose and let them go out with a buzz.

[@JackBarrett7]

@@stixx3969 Recently, many pharmaceutical companies have refused to sell States the drugs necessary for lethal injection and some of the more blood-thirsty States have gone with overdoses of benzodiazepines, sometimes in conjunction with opiates as a means of lethal injection.

[@JackBarrett7]

What you've described was the last case on this list, of a man in Ohio. It did not cause the governor to commute sentences. Also, the last execution in Illinois was in 1999, was not botched and the governor did have reservations, but he did not regret it and execution was not outlawed in Illinois until 2011. Gov. George Ryan commuted every death row inmates sentences in 2003, but it was not bc of any botched execution, but a decision he made 3 days before leaving office.

[@psychojoe4764]

Wait they can deny a guilty plea? Thats so wild! "Hey I did it im guilty" "No"

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

The perfect execution method was invented a _long_ time ago, and is usually synonymous with the French - despite actually being an English invention - and this method is called the guillotine. It's as painless/sufferring-free as one can get all things considered, it doesn't botch the job or entirely fail to do the job and it's over in a blink of an eye. Of course the downside is how bloody it is, not that great a method if you want civilian witnesses (which I still question why this is necessary, when it could be entirely done behind closed doors by medical professionals with perhaps a judge as the sole other witness to ensure nothing untoward happens).

[@dlstc]

Last used in 1977

[@Aoskar95]

It works decently though I'd argue that if you want quick and painless. a hydraulic press to the skull would be more effective

[@icemancometh1621]

Not true that it's without flaw. There are a few examples in history of the blade failing to sever the head. One of which resulted in the prisoner being freed in the belief that divine intervention foiled the three consecutive attempts to behead him.

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

@@icemancometh1621 Okay fair point. That was probably down to the fact they failed to sharpen the blade edge enough - or it had rolled edges because they didn't replace the blade often enough - a common issue with swords and axes that were also used for beheadings back then. However if we made a modern version, you simply increase the weight of the blade, make damn sure it's razor-sharp before each use, and if necessary increase the drop height. And use a brand new blade every so often to avoid rolled/chipped edges (and _check for_ them each time too). Problem solved. Hell, if worse came to worse you could use motors and cables or hydraulics to increase the drop speed. At the end of the day separating the head from the body - through the spinal cord first - in as quick a manner as humanly possible, is likely _the_ most painless, quick and effective way of carrying out a death penalty. The most "humane" way of doing it. And with a guillotine it offers the fewest number of ways it can fail or go badly - with the easiest ways to solve any potential issues. When compared to other methods available.

[@icemancometh1621]

@@DavidStruveDesigns Agreed. And a basic understanding of etymology reveals 'cap' in 'capital' means head. Originally capital punishment literally referred to punishing the head. Whether by beheading or stoning, the focus was on the head. Alternatively, an outdated Indian practice was to have a trained elephant step on the head of the condemned. So you could argue for a guillotine or hydraulic ram press as the more efficient method of execution.

[@christopherhall5361]

"we decline your confession because we want to execute you" it's like a surreal version of football rules

[@andrewince8824]

It's the American way. Yanks just love killing. It's why they see over 135000 shootings and 88000 stabbings annually as perfectly normal.

[@christopherhall5361]

@@andrewince8824 we have more firearms and ammunition among our civilians than any other 2 countries combined, and yet we're still 26 in the world for gun violence. the worst places for murder in the world have the strictest gun laws. California has the strictest gun laws in our own country and they have shootings all the time, so clearly guns don't cause murders and banning them has the opposite effect. makes sense when you think about it, criminals want easy targets that won't fight back

[@christopherhall5361]

@@andrewince8824 also our we have greater population density, when you look at the crime rates per capita, as opposed to just looking at the raw numbers, you'll see that the US is actually one of the safest places in the world, unless you live somewhere like Chicago or Oakland...you know, places where guns are strictly controlled

[@andrewince8824]

@@christopherhall5361 when accounting for the population size the UK has only 50000 stabbings to the US 88000. The US is only "safe" compared to other third world shitholes.

[@christopherhall5361]

@@andrewince8824 we have almost 5 times the population as the UK, for one. Pop of US in 2021 was 331.9 million, UK was 67.33 million, so with those stats we're at 1.76% or YOUR stabbings.....so comparable rates of stabbings in both nations if we were even in population, but we're 5 times bigger, so yeah it's safer here

[@blackblurable]

Lethal injection fails at times because of two reasons, mainly. They didn’t get the vein or the condemned has a history of drug abuse. Medical professionals don’t place the needle or administer the lethal cocktail. The oath nurses and doctors take goes against anything that causes harm or death. So you have guards basically trying to do this when they realistically have no basic training. I’ve heard of quite a few cases where it just fails horribly. Makes the condemned and witnesses suffer more. There’s been death row inmates who have requested electric chair over lethal injection. Personally I’d go with guillotine over both and maybe firing squad as a close second place.

[@fmcevoy1]

That's "James I and VI," not "James I and II."

[@decemberjoy86]

I’m glad I wasn’t the only person who caught that!!!!

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Blame the ignorant American scriptwriters and editors.

[@IntrepidFraidyCat]

Yes, that caught my ear as well.

[@ProfessorPottsy]

@@owenshebbeare2999 it could’ve also been bad research source info that accidentally put James I & II instead of James I and James VI Ya never know

[@juzzymb]

This was my favourite first 2 seconds of a Simon video.

[@billhardy7870]

I don't understand why, where lethal injection is used, the drugs used to euthanize pets are not used on humans. Over the years we have had several large dogs put down when they became unable to walk, eat and everything else associated with the quality of life. While horribly sad to lose a pet, it was always for the best where the pet was concerned. The injections created a nearly instantaneous reaction, the dog or the cat going limp and being pronounced dead by the vet. Why can't humans use the same deadly cocktail on those who commit heinous crime instead of practicing procedures that could lead to a torturous and painful passing? While I'm all for the death penalty, I'm not for torture.

[@ninettaflores7515]

Cost

[@randyedwards3244]

Simon, you do a wonderful job as a presenter on all the channels you're associated with. One slip I'm certain may have been made was in the final story from todays program. I'm positive you said 1963 NOT 1983 - please correct me if I'm wrong, OK? That would put him on "Death Row" for an extra 40 years!! Keep up the great work!

[@GregHuffman1987]

Thats one drawback of simon whistler always churning out content is that there are mistakes that are easy to catch in every episode almost. Im glad someone has these never ending content creation cycles of quality material - id be curious how they do it - but there are drawbacks

[@Mr.InbetweenFX]

@@GregHuffman1987 he reads multiple episodes per day for each of his channels, typically waiting between a week to a few months to release the episodes after review and editing. Taking only a few weeks off every few months. But yeah, there's always minor mistakes due to the way these get churned out constantly.

[@ashb7846]

It’s just a slip of the tongue and he churns out so much content I doubt he cares about that tiny error. On the screen it showed 1984 though, so I think we can overlook his .1% inaccuracies lol

[@marcusstormm7591]

No better punishment in the world! It ensures that murderers, rapists, and child molesters never so much as even think of committing a crime again.

[@joshuacoleman8000]

Then why are those crimes still committed to this day? Riddle me that, genius.

[@EmoExpression]

Best intro ever.

[@KenWiggerAnotherAncientGamer]

This was very entertaining! Thanks for sharing my friend!

[@LisaMarie-mc5oq]

10 Horriby blalalah didn't even read the title! Wow thats interesting and so enthusiastic!:) Someone needs a holiday!

[@katrinajohnson9536]

Coming from someone who’s sister was brutally beaten and then shot in the head by her ex, who is still bullshitting his way out of going to trial when it should’ve been an open and shut case, I don’t understand why we waste tax payers dollars keeping these monsters alive on death row when a bullet to the back of the head would be quick, cheap and a way easier executions than most of these wastes of human lifes deserve. (Although, that might just be a strong opinion from someone who’s currently dealing with something along this subject. 🤷🏼‍♀️)

[@JasmineAnahera]

I mean, they used to take people out the back of the courtroom to a firing squad when found guilty. Then for some reason they decided they were entitled to the right of appeal 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@maatnofret1234]

Re: Mary Queen of Scots: As if all that wasn’t awful enough, when the executioner held up her head, it fell out of her wig and onto the platform.

[@elizabethsmith8609]

And the dog under her skirts

[@johnalmaguer7118]

Not true, only thing fell out of her wig was a snickers

[@rogerauger7766]

I enjoy your content quite a bit Simon. You rarely ever bore me, keep it up. :)

[@bettyswallocks6411]

Electric chair fun fact: Emperor Melenik II of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) imported two electric chairs, having decided that this method of execution would be part of his modernisation of the nation (nice). Unfortunately, at that time, Abyssinia had no electricity, so Melenik adopted one of the chairs as his throne.

[@roytetwart]

He later bought a dynamo for his Electric Chair. The only trouble was it took his servant 3 weeks to generate power on his bicycle!!!!

[@eimearslee8367]

When was this? I thought that the only other country to use electrocution was the Philipenes, who used it as state-sponsored represion from the 1920s through the 1970s.

[@Cameron655]

Interesting thing: when being burned alive, the executioner did have a choice of a fast or slow fire. The former was excruciating, in the form of third-degree burns. If however, the executioner (or the institution ordering it, usually the church) was feeling lenient, they could opt for a slow fire, which would suffocate the victim with carbon monoxide, before the fire took off. Just for the record, I am staunchly against capital punishment, but I subscribe to Casual Criminalist, so that belief gets tested on a regular basis. That said, I still think that killing people for judicial revenge makes us no better than the accused. (And don't even get me started on wrongful convictions.)

[@Static-ash]

We must treat everyone humanely. That's the bottom line. Someone like a Ted Bundy really makes me question whether that's right because boy am I glad they killed that coward. Watching that old news footage I celebrate right along with the crowd. It's tough

[@kitpesec1536]

After liberating Bucha Ukrainian military lawyers revealed body of 9 yo girl, completely molested, with ELEVEN sperm sample on it. Not to mention tens of thousands (at present moment only) similar cases. Plus huge number is crimes in Georgia, Ichkeria, Syria, many African countries. It makes capital punishment VITALLY necessary, at list in certain areas

[@ninefingerjack]

It is truly hypocritical. As the governing body says don't kill people or we will kill you. Proven time and again it is not a deterrent.

[@ericthompson3982]

I'm just not ok with homicide committed in my name, which is what state sponsored execution is. I very much take your points, however.

[@ninefingerjack]

@@Iowa599 who says to kill them? The government? The ones that lied about the Iraq war and Vietnam and literally got tens of thousands either killed or irreparably maimed? Yeah. Let's rely on that.

[@annakuch9108]

I just sang that entire William Kidd songg next to his pac bcs i cant turn down a shanty. I found a melody that worked very quickly actually

[@roberthuber7031]

I've read a few comments on here discussing how wonderful and effective the guillotine method of execution had worked in the past and I cannot dispute those claims, but the written eyewitness descriptions of seeing the eyes of those severed heads looking around as though the brain is still actively registering everything going on about the crowd around them is absolutely horrifying.

[@titmusspaultpaul5]

Yes, I've heard of that as well. Last I read it was thought the head could still function somewhat for 14 seconds, but being severed from the body, and therefore from the nervous system you would think there would be no pain. And a lot of people that were executed this way apparently didn't show any signs of life or awareness. It seems the most humane way but I suppose they don't like all the blood associated with it.

[@annettefournier9655]

Just residual nerve impulses.

[@tanderson6442]

Check out people who have performed actions after decapitation, some trippy stories, like the POW who made a deal that after he was beheaded however many of his soldiers he ran past would be set free and he ran past all 9 before collapsing. Another was a soldier hit in the head with a cannon ball he reached in his coat and handed the guy next to him the map, compass, and monocular. Pretty crazy.

[@titmusspaultpaul5]

@@tanderson6442 wow, that is crazy trippy.

[@cierakitty]

And hearing is the last thing to go

[@cathyb1273]

I always said that the guillotine is the best tool for a perfect execution. A very heavy blade of 40 kgs (88lbs) falling from a height of 2.30m (7.54 feet) and SCHLACK !! in a blink of an eye the head is separated from the body. Brutal but very quick and 100% efficient. The guillotine has been proposed in the US to replace the electric chair but was rejected because too barbaric (to be translated by too bloody)... 🤣🤣 Sure it is ”better” to see a human being grilled alive for long minutes or agonizing horribly because the injected lethal products are not ok.

[@birdmonster115]

I vote to bring back the guillotine

[@tanderson6442]

Kinda hard to botch a execution with a guillotine. I always thought using a giant hydraulic press would work. Can’t exactly have a open casket funeral but whatever. Make it mandatory people sentenced to death must be cremated.

[@GeraldBlack1]

Guess heroine or fentanyl is just too cheap and easy.

[@97JoMiller]

Worked for George Floyd

[@robertdeen8741]

In this day and age, it's amazing that something so simple as ending a life has become so complicated. All that's needed for a fast painless termination of someone is a little fentynol. People are dying from it in record numbers on the streets. Why they don't just give the condemned a hotcap is beyond me.

[@LeCharles07]

Killing people is hard but also easy... :/

[@Mathemagical55]

Any process administered by the government becomes 10X more complicated and 100X more costly than necessary.

[@luster5497]

How many KZbin Channels does he host?? 10plus??

[@Allnimalz]

Me if I was the executioner and couldn't find a vein: "gimme that boot lace"

[@DerUfo]

YOU'D MAKE A EXCELLENT NAZI WORKING AT A CAMP. REMEMBER EVERYTHING NAZIS DID WAS LEGAL AND LEGIT IN NAZI GERMANY AT THE TIME..

[@Allnimalz]

@@DerUfo ehhh killing innocent civilians is wrong, killing a man who tortured and raped children. Easy.

[@felixjones9198]

Yeap. I was a paramedic for a decade and a heroin addict for about the same amount of time. If you need a vein found, I'll find it, and nail it first time, every time.

[@SitInTheShayd]

Love the intro Simon

[@SpectreGunship]

How about Anton Chigur's captive bolt gun?

[@brucefreadrich1188]

The slaughter house thing? I was just thinking the same thing. I was also wondering why don't the prison cells just have a noose in them - ready made. Or arcenic packets next to the salt and pepper in the chow line?

[@Ensensu2]

@@brucefreadrich1188 I have often wondered the same thing. If prisons get paid for each prisoner kept alive as people are lead to believe, then suicide would mean the prison could lose money.

[@johnstuartsmith]

Look! Over there! It's a squirrel!... Doink!....thud....

[@DanThompson1014]

Michigan figured out the cheapest, most effective & least painful, or most…. Old age or when done properly @ the hands of other prisoners… life w/o parole.

[@billbatross6856]

What gets me, is when an execution is botched, how the people say, "oh, that poor person suffered needlessly". I say bull-sh**! What about the poor victims and family that the killer affected!? What about their needless suffering! They have to live with the fact, that their loved ones are gone and aren't coming back! To me, that's more suffering than the killer had to endure! I say, if the execution went wrong, oh well! They'll just have to learn from their mistakes and try harder next time! I know that supposedly sounds cruel, but it's cruel that the family of the victim has to suffer for the rest of their lives!

[@fredvaladez3542]

Great videos and subject matter but could you please talk more slowly so that I do not miss any of the wonderful narration? Many thanks.

[@gyvren]

“Likely, considerably more sober..” 😂🤣

[@NotAGhost1]

Who edits these?

[@LeCharles07]

I've had more that one surgery and, when they knock you out, you're gone till you finally come back. Just anesthetize the person then end them how ever you see fit, they're never going to know or feel a thing.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

A fistful of sleeping pills has done the trick for thousands. All done in the comfort of their own home.

[@davidfrederick1971]

"the punishment should fit the crime"

[@johnopalko5223]

🎵 My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime- And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment! 🎵 (Sorry but, every time I hear that obnoxiously self-righteous phrase, I can't help but think of "The Mikado.")

[@dcmkeudnf]

One lesson from this video that transcends capital punishment issues is that there is no proceedure so simple that some dumb f**k can't screw it up.

[@alk9156]

Perfect pronunciation of Fotheringhay Sir.

[@genosisbear4305]

In a City Tour through Edinburgh, the Guide told me of a Woman, accused with the death of her child, and sentenced to death by hanging. She was hung, pronounced dead and loaded on a carriage. The two drivers stopped at a pub and had a cold one. It was then that Margaret woke up and started crawling off the carriage. They wouldn’t hang her twice, so she lived on, known as „Half-hanged Maggie“. 😂

[@StormhavenGaming]

Maggie Dickson. The thinking was that, since the execution had technically been carried out, she was a free woman. She lived for around 40 years after her hanging, becoming friends with the ropemaker who had made her noose. There used to be a pub in the Grassmarket in Edinburgh named after her - no idea if it's still there.

[@halfhearted2799]

@@StormhavenGaming I live in Edinburgh and work for a tour company here. Can confirm both the story’s authenticity and that ‘Maggie Dicksons’ pub is still here 👍

[@StormhavenGaming]

@@halfhearted2799 I'm really glad to hear that it's still there.

[@homersimpsonsfatguyhat9541]

You should do an into the shadows vid with lists of the most botched executions by execution method

[@delmccormack7001]

Don't they use a simple piston air gun to kill cattle? Reusable and inexpensive. About a tenth of a penny a shot. Sounds fairly perfect to me. One shot to them base of the skull at the junction where the medulla meets the skull. It is the human off switch. Fast, efficient, clean and 100% one shot kill rate.

[@danielmitchell6940]

yep, the old mafia hit man style

[@sancho004]

Electrocuted an elephant? Come on man 🤦

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Biden probably witnessed it!

[@sancho004]

@@owenshebbeare2999 Biden? Why can't you idiots let politics go? Smh

[@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou]

There's video footage of it. It's horrifying. Humans can be cruel monsters.

[@southwestphilomath807]

Definitely love a long video Simon

[@InstaurareOmnia]

Lew Wallace was not present at the Battle of Gettysburg. He was grievously wounded at Shiloh the year prior, and saw minimal service after that, most in the Western theatre of the War.

[@MissBlueEyeliner]

A nice reminder of how savage we can be when we put our minds to it.

[@MikadoYuma]

To get the death penalty most have probably done worse though. Some of these weren't warranted though, especially the attempted assassination. That was overkill for almost any crime.

[@J3diMindTrix]

The electric chair is a weird one, it not only is plainly obvious to be a far more painful and prolonged method, making it unsuitable if the objective really is as humane a death as possible, but the only reason it exists is because of Edison's vicious smear campaign against Tesla & Westinghouse, given the success of AC over his DC when he realised how much better it was as a product. Why anyone would use a device that is literally the result of a propaganda campaign from the 19th century designed to make it look bad - the whole point, one would think, was to make the death as horrifying and excruciating as possible, or at least that's what the whole idea of a smear campaign would be... surely it can be agreed with comparative ease that the electric chair is a relic from a bygone era that we could do without.

[@MikadoYuma]

@@J3diMindTrix Some criminals probably deserve a painful death penalty though, like ones without mental illness that tortured people

[@jamesdreads7828]

hahaaa wtf was that intro. loved that.

[@brownwrench]

What's messed is executing someone 42 years after the crime

[@calebhemore4021]

How many channels does this guy have

[@SupremeRGS]

Lol, after hours of listening to the Casual Criminalist, we know Simon went from anti- death penalty, to pro

[@dwaynelangerhr6985]

When it comes to the Death Penalty I have only 3 words to say about it. "Pay Per View"

[@GregHuffman1987]

Pay per view is an outdated model. Now we have to give it to the streaming companies where you get 13 seasons of people being killed live

[@ronniespain18]

I'd buy that for a dollar!!!! Lol

[@TomFynn]

"We had the courage to watch the dreadful sight for four hours." Explaining the success of modern television in one sentence.

[@julietatol2698]

Where are Allen Lee Davis and Jesse Tafero?? I would consider that one's head catching fire is a fail ( or not?)

[@wtafwasthat]

I don't get why we feel the need to give rapists & murderers a "humane" death. Their victims suffered horrendous deaths & multiple rapes. We need to take off the kid gloves & get medieval of these monsters.

[@Gucci_Nomad]

Best intro EVER

[@philhahn]

I think if you want to attend an execution you should be forced to watch every moment of it - no turning away, no leaving... You're locked in and can't avert your gaze.

[@helora4507]

Most of these people committed horrible crimes. They made their victims suffer during and the families suffer after. Is it tragic these criminals suffered?

[@donstuie]

Showing in my feed for this video is a retrospective of the 'Garbage Pail Kids' movie. Seems appropriate...

[@dmr8914]

I cannot condone execution because there are too many men who have been found innocent after their conviction. However, if, for whatever reason, a living being has to be executed then do it properly. OR, have the people who convict the person be the person/people who carry out the execution. If you cant execute - dont convict

[@lordMartiya]

And all of this is why the French Revolution invented the guillotine: you can't botch that one.

[@andrewince8824]

Nope. The guillotine was around in Yorkshire, England, as early as the 14th century. The association with the cheese-eating surrender-monkeys simply comes from their excessive use of it.

[@lordMartiya]

@@andrewince8824 The Halifax Gibbet was an early precursor that the nation that won the Revolutionary War for the Americans improved

[@IrishMike22]

May 16, 2000; my first marriage. Felt like a botched execution from the start (for the both of us, I'm sure.)

[@NotA-Lizard]

Had one of those myself...

[@keithgibson568]

Nah, more like a life sentence that was commuted......

[@Ducayneau]

The perfect answer is to abolish the primitive and barbaric death penalty. It has no place in civilised society.

[@FreeThePorgs]

Capitol punishment is a highly controversial and sensitive subject…That being said statistically speaking the death penalty does not stop crime nor is it a deterrent like one of the original theories about it was. There is also a major difference between justice and revenge and should not be conflated.

[@DerUfo]

SADLY MAN IS JUST OFTEN A BLOOD THIRSTY SAVAGE.. AND ASK YOURSELF.. WHAT ABOUT THE WRONGLY CONVICTED WHO GOT THE DEATH PENALTY ...

[@tomhenry897]

Yet they run when hear their getting it

[@atomicphilosopher6143]

I maintain that the best method of execution is the guillotine. Especially with modern technology, it would have a 100% success rate the first shot.

[@masterbondofox8982]

Will/Have any of these turn up on Casual Criminalist?

[@redmusichouse]

How fast can you talk? Simon: Yes

[@tastefullynerdy1161]

About Damien François - there's a FANTASTIC manga series that heavily dramatises the life of his executioner. It's called Innocent and it's a work of art. Literally, the artistry behind it is insane

[@robmanning6006]

The executioner is still nothing more than a state-sanctioned murderer, no better than those who they are killing

[@jackwilliam4436]

And don't forget its sequel : Innocent Rouge, which still follows the Sanson - though it focuses a little less on Charles-Henri and a little more on his sister Marie-Josèphe. The Innocent/Innocent Rouge mangas are absolute classics.

[@jessejoyce1295]

10 horribly blah blah blah I don’t need to read the title. Love the enthusiasm there Simon

[@MellSayzHi]

Honestly Margaret Pole had a crappy end. Man didn't kill her in the first shot and ten more whacks to do the job.

[@johnwick1883]

I guarantee all their victims could care less about their suffering. And neither do I.

[@andrewince8824]

Couldn't care less.

[@mstevens113]

Couldn't. Is nobody literate any more?

[@zwadveg918]

Whatever your say psycho

[@TheAshleyYoyo]

@@mstevens113Americans definitely aren’t

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

You're 'ard.

[@canaan5337]

You would think if they were going to use capital punishment they would just shoot them in the head with something like a 45 or a 44 magnum or a desert eagle 50 caliber or even a captive bolt gun like they use at a slaughterhouse.

[@roytetwart]

Better still, a .22 BB gun!

[@andrewince8824]

Just use a PPK chambered in 7.65mm. The Soviet Union did exactly that to great success. Over 10000 dissident enemies of the people were switched off over a 3 month span by one glorious hero of the proletariat.

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

WTF since when can a guilty plea _not_ be accepted?! Wow way to go Alabama law ... wonder if that's still a thing in Alabama - or _any_ US State - today? The ability for the prosecution to refuse a guilty plea??

[@Tanquiamco]

Because not everyone who confesses is guilty .

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

@@Tanquiamco That's true, but in this particular case it was _purely_ because they wanted the _jury_ to pronounce guilt, because it was the only way they could ask for the death penalty. And that shouldn't be allowed. Refusing because you suspect or believe the guilty plea is a lie and they are accepting guilt on behalf of someone else - or are being forced to confess is fine, I have no problem with them refusing a plea for those reasons. But just to get a death penalty over life imprisonment shouldn't be reason enough to refuse a guilty plea.

[@marvindebot3264]

*Alabama enters the chat*

[@missheadbanger]

Fun fact: there is only one official execution by guillotine in North America. Saint Pierre is a french archipelago, south of Newfoundland & Labrador Canada. In 1889 the region was under the rule of the Republic of France, the man sentenced to death was Auguste Neel. He and his accomplice killed a boat captain in a failed burglary, his accomplice got hard labor. They didn't have a guillotine so they had to ship one over from Martinique, they hired a local fisherman as an executioner. Neel was executed on August 24th, It was botched due to a dull blade and it didn't completely sever his head from his body. Because of the gruesome death, the Guillotine was never used again on the island and is still in Saint Pierre.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

Um, St. Pierre is neither part of Newfoundland & Labrador nor any other part of Canada. It was, and remains, an overseas territory of France.

[@missheadbanger]

@KingMatthewXX Thanks for correcting me, I live in the prairies so I don't know much about the Maritimes. 😓🇨🇦

[@timinou9915]

What about high velocity lead brain " poisoning " ? Honest question

[@roytetwart]

Yep. A lead injection behind the ear.

[@ronsimpsonll9739]

Caliber to the cranium has always been the most effective...

[@Narangarath]

That depends entirely on the caliber and type of ammunition. A very surprising number of people survives gun shot wounds to the head.

[@thomasdarnall8912]

.22 SR. It will just bounce around the skull until all grey matter has been consumed.

[@mam362]

being alive does not equal suffering, just something to keep in mind.

[@micstonemic696stone]

with Henry the 8th wanting to execution Anne Boleyn he hired a top sword expert from france to get the job right, for which he did in one sweep

[@jackgibsxxx0750]

#10.... I always wondered if Mary's "beheading" was botched at the orders of Elizabeth.

[@jerricaleonard2123]

On the topic of rumors, I heard one about Elizabeth not wanting Mary to die because she was part of her family, and was tricked into signing the death warrant.

[@jackgibsxxx0750]

@@jerricaleonard2123 ... No. It was well known that Elizabeth hated Mary with a passion.

[@thunderK5]

Slight error: Lew Wallace fought at Shiloh but was not at Gettysburg.

[@catobekkevold8333]

I always play Simons videos in 0.75 speed in order to keep up. Then they sound like normal speed.

[@angusdunn474]

James VI & I. I thought you went to school in Scotland

[@julianmhall]

'Regicide has been frowned upon throughout history'.. I think it's a bit more than 'frowned upon' *LOL*

[@pdoggo64]

My parents owned a business next door to the pawn shop in Alabama...I was there doing my homework in the back room when the murder/robbery occurred...I was ten years old or so...I don't recall anything about it... But i was surprised to hear about it here in this video... Haven't thought about it for decades...

[@ProfessorPottsy]

That’s quite the coincidence it being talked about in a video you just happen to be watching on KZbin years and YEARS later lol

[@tacosaurus317]

The abolition of the death penalty has been an absolute injustice to not only the victim/family of the victims but to the heinous and cruel nature of many of the crimes including murder.

[@Ducayneau]

And what of those who become the victim, executed when the legal system failed them?

[@roytetwart]

It also helps to protect society.

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

"Murder is bad so lets hand the state the power to do it on the back of a highly flawed system".

[@cynicalminion]

twelve seconds in, and we're already gonna pretend like we don't follow the casual criminalist...

[@paulbillows123]

We don't do executions in my country, so I have never really though about it much; but given all the complications that can apparently happen with hanging, the chair and the injection; why don't they just shoot people in the head? It is gruesome yes, but surely very efficient and avoids all the complications associated with other methods? Or not? Genuine question! I don't know much about people being shot in the head either to be honest, so maybe not as quick and clean as I think it is?

[@GothAtheist]

Execution itself is the definition of botched, and should never have been acceptable.

[@Eric-the-Bold]

In the 1970`s my Uncle took me to see his friend who was an Antique dealer. He had a document from a lady cira 1800 century plus a very small , dark blue/black waist coat with silver buttons. Also two small silver Buckles . All were in a glass wall hanging frame. The items were purporting to have belonged to Captain Kid?

[@GregHuffman1987]

16:08 same birthday as me. Jeez he was arrested 1 day after... our? ... birthday as well. Wonder if thats coincidence

[@oktoberain]

Before I even watch-the most horribly botched execution I can think of off the top of my head (haha) is the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Her story as a whole is extremely sad. All I can say is that I know someone who’s directly descended from the same line as Mary and Elizabeth (they even have red-haired cousins! lol), and both the charisma and the ill-temperament and health in their later years. The gene for ovarian/breast cancers also runs in that family. :( I highly recommend watching a biopic about Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots. (Her own *sister* Mary I, aka “Bloody Mary”, came close several times to killing Elizabeth for some of the same paranoid reasons that Elizabeth later killed their cousin!) Henry VIII *really* left a mess behind-and two seriously traumatized daughters. :(