I’d deal with several seconds of consciousness, but the minutes to hours of agony when lethal injection fails to knock you out would be hell.
I asked my mother a long time ago why they don’t do executions under full anaesthesia, and she said it was to cause as much pain as possible which I fully believe.
I have a hard time believing those stories though.
If a sudden blood pressure drop is enough to make someone fall unconscious immediately with blood still flowing to the brain, then a full blood pressure drop with no blood flowing to the brain should have the same effect.
If I had to guess, eye and mouth movements are probably from the nerves going crazy after being severed at the brain stem.
I had heard anecdotes of the head surviving for several seconds before death in that case. The aesthetic is top tier though.
I’d deal with several seconds of consciousness, but the minutes to hours of agony when lethal injection fails to knock you out would be hell.
I asked my mother a long time ago why they don’t do executions under full anaesthesia, and she said it was to cause as much pain as possible which I fully believe.
I have a hard time believing those stories though.
If a sudden blood pressure drop is enough to make someone fall unconscious immediately with blood still flowing to the brain, then a full blood pressure drop with no blood flowing to the brain should have the same effect.
If I had to guess, eye and mouth movements are probably from the nerves going crazy after being severed at the brain stem.