• @ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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        28 months ago

        The thing about a bullet, is someone has to shoot it. The crane could be set on a timer, so nobody has to feel guilty for pulling the trigger.

        • @CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.world
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          28 months ago

          That’s a thought. 🙂

          Guilt for administering a death has been thought of before; that’s part of the reason why there’s a firing ‘squad’. You have however many people with lethal rounds, and however many people with dummy/blank rounds, so nobody knows for sure whose bullets were live & killed him.

      • @three@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        I doubt running a crane or gantry for an hour costs very much. You could add guide rails, á la guillotine.

        • @MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com
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          28 months ago

          I mean you need to build one of these things everywhere you execute people… And they need to operate every time you execute someone.

          At that point just use a guillotine.

        • @webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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          18 months ago

          Youd need to design a pretty good fall room that can handle frequent dropping and cleanup is a mix of dust, rubble and human body

          The bullet is better. Though guillotine work as well and had style points.

          • @Droechai@lemm.ee
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            18 months ago

            Maybe something like the trash compactor from Star Wars but with a rocket sled acceleration of one of the walls?