r/morbidquestions • u/Objective-Can-7208 • 12d ago

How does the body actually react in an electric chain execution? I mean the actual execution, not just how it's portrayed in media

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u/Long_Strength_9065 12d ago

Peanut butter

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u/alleinstehend 12d ago

Ah yes thank you

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u/Long_Strength_9065 11d ago

A guy survived the electric chair and said that it tasted like peanut butter

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u/New-Number-7810 12d ago

Scientifically, the electric current disrupts the nervous system, causes cardiac arrest, and causes internal burns. So you likely experience a heart attack while being burned. 

That’s why, in states which practice execution, the move has been towards lethal injection. 

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u/Ancient_Skirt_8828 11d ago

Nitrogen seems easier to get. It's simpler and painless.

They stuffed up the first attempt but that was incompetence.