Mitsuba Monogatari - Vol. 4 Ch. 20

[psuedonymous]

I think I mentioned this before,or somewhere else,but beheading isn't instant death.

If the shock didn't instantly knock the victim out,they would be in extreme confusion before the lack of oxygenated blood knocked them out cold in quite a few seconds,sometimes minutes,which was even a spectacle in some place,the executioner holding the head to the crowd so they could see the last look on the victims' face.

This is pretty much a myth. Even just loss of fresh blood oxygenation takes less than 14 seconds to cause unconsciousness (learnt from vacuum depressurisation accidents during development of spacesuits for the Apollo program), and that's with the heart providing continued blood flow to the brain and maintaining normal cranial pressure. Beheading would not only cause immediate loss new oxygenated blood, but existing blood would be rapidly expelled (from loss of arterial pressure) and cranial pressure would rapidly drop adding rapid onset intracranial hypotension to the mix.
In short, even if there is not fatal shock from the beheading, consciousness would end in seconds and be accompanied with a strong headache. Very likely the period of consciousness would only last part of the time needed for any remining oxygenated blood to drain from the head, so probably a second or less even in the 'best' case.

 

[cryum]

Isn't it just France? France with more psychopaths.

I don't remember druggies willing to keep preaching until the guillotine, and cannonballs that double as instant plagues.

But I dunno, maybe y'all westerners are just freaky like that.

 

[NARESH4444]

This is pretty much a myth. Even just loss of fresh blood oxygenation takes less than 14 seconds to cause unconsciousness (learnt from vacuum depressurisation accidents during development of spacesuits for the Apollo program), and that's with the heart providing continued blood flow to the brain and maintaining normal cranial pressure. Beheading would not only cause immediate loss new oxygenated blood, but existing blood would be rapidly expelled (from loss of arterial pressure) and cranial pressure would rapidly drop adding rapid onset intracranial hypotension to the mix.
In short, even if there is not fatal shock from the beheading, consciousness would end in seconds and be accompanied with a strong headache. Very likely the period of consciousness would only last part of the time needed for any remining oxygenated blood to drain from the head, so probably a second or less even in the 'best' case.

It's actually a few seconds due differences,albeit the works of Gabriel Beaurieux are still found to be an oddity,considering the amount of responses he achieved,no one knows how he reaches his conclusions.

 

[NARESH4444]

While there was a goal of making it painless, a big part of the issue is that prior to the guillotine beheading was somewhat imprecise. You could have an axe twist, slip, or miss and only partially behead someone. The guillotine made the process consistent. It didn't even matter if the blade was sharp or not, as the weight and drop distance made it so it could crush through almost as fast when dull.

The real problem is that they wanted something that looked fancy and humane. When if you want to kill someone painlessly with the technology of the time, putting a gun to the base of their skull would have been far more effective. It would however have been quite gruesome, and even if they didn't realize it, they were trying to make something humane for the audience, and executor rather than the condemned.

It's always about looks with the governments,eh?

 

[alexandergc]

I don't remember druggies willing to keep preaching until the guillotine, and cannonballs that double as instant plagues.

But I dunno, maybe y'all westerners are just freaky like that.

Malaysia's "last witch" purportedly laughed and smiled until the executioner pulled the drop on her hanging.

And cannonballs might not be it, but European armies laying siege to forts in the old times would sometimes catapult dead animals or soldiers into the fort to spread disease and fear.

 

[EchoGirl]

thanks! love the purp on her volume cover

Very royal

lol freaking metal

Something's not right with that girl, but I can't quite put my finger on it

Ngl we need more protags than her

 

[MrScruff]

Most certainly not a "humane" killing,something which the original supporter of humane excutions,Joseph-Ignace Guillotin(Antoine Louis is the inventor[called "louisette" before the popular support])later found out to his horror,and attempted afterwards to abolish the death penalty.

In Napoleon manga i read before they shoot rebel with a CANON for an execution so that does make guilotine more humane option but still...

 

[NARESH4444]

In Napoleon manga i read before they shoot rebel with a CANON for an execution so that does make guilotine more humane option but still...

That was a common method once cannons became a thing,before,during,and possibly after the Napolionic wars.