[KillingJoke]

Originally Posted by philovan ↗

What do you mean by "screw-ups?" I don't know of any "unsuccessful" executions in Old Sparky. One way or another, he got the job done.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "successful". Yeah sure, pretty much everyone that ever sat in an old Sparky became unalive eventually.

But there were plenty of times when before becoming an "expired fried parrot" the criminal caught fire or something exploded... you know, the usual. Also it was pretty common that they were not dead on the first jolt, and then it would take several individual jolts.

I think part of this was they just didn't use a high enough voltage. In the video above the lines that moron with the heroin-thin body touched were somewhere in the order of 7000 V or more, with hundreds of amps available. Many residential lines like those in this video are 12,000V to 18,000V... even higher in more industrial areas.

It's amps that kill.

Electric chairs frequently run at less than 2000 V, as low as 1200V, with power supplies that are less than 10 A often as low as 4 A.

I'm not saying that 1200V 4A is not lethal. Sure, you'll kill the sucker eventually. But a zap at 7000V with no practical amperage limitation is what we refer to as Instakill™ whereas Ol' Sparky is more like a slow-roasting KillaGrill™

[The Grim Repper]

Sounded like a pair of size 12 Nike sneakers hitting the ground. Well done...just like him.

[KillingJoke]

Because this camera guy was obviously tweaking along with the victim, the footage is more than a bit shaky. LOL.

So here's a stabilized version, with a full wide angle and a splitscreen CU, and followed by a slomo of the money shot.

A poem:

He was dim since birth
Despite odds, climbed to the top
And he went out bright!

[depraved1]

Originally Posted by Mr.NoCredit ↗

The nice flat sound at the end. You can hear his bones..

ASMR

[CatBatMan]

I would never hire that camera operator at my station. Shitty shitty shitty!

[MikeyP]

Suicide, 110%.

[DanteAntonelli]

Originally Posted by TerminusV ↗

That damn cameraman gave me more anxiety than the dude on the wire. I kept thinking we were gonna miss the money shot everytime dude went out of frame.

Every time I watch these idiots aiming the camera all over the place when some crazy/drugged/suicidal person is just about to jump or fall I wonder how can someone be SOOOOO EFFING STUUUPID!

The idiot with the phone recording the event is too damn slow! Couldn't even follow the body falling.

Why we always end up getting the recorded clip from the most retarded moron on location?

Like WHY?

[DanteAntonelli]

Originally Posted by TheUrinator ↗

This makes me wonder why there were so many screw-ups with executions in the electric chair.

Because they over-engineer the stupid chair instead of just connecting it directly to a 115 Kv high tension line.

Don't forget the prison system in the U.S. is a private enterprise, it's all about money.

Connecting the high tension wire directly to the chair would cost less than 500.00 dollars.

Hiring a contractor to make the wooden chair with the connectors would probably cost $500,000.00 inflated price to share among share holders.

The 20~30 years waiting period to carry out the sentence $780,000 to $1,170,000 @ 39,000/Year prisoner price for incarceration which is pumped into the prison system owners' wallets
The electric mini central: $2 Million dollars
The lever to fry the inmate $5,000.00 dollars
The guy pulling the lever: $200,000.00 salary a year
The cadre of puppets overseeing the proceedings about $3 Million dollars.

And considering that this killing method is far from "humane"

A shot from a FAL to the back of the head would be more humane and way cheaper.

A private first class who's already on the payroll
Price of a 7.62 NATO round: ~$1.30 retail 0.90 Chinese surplus 1,000 cartridges wooden crate

[DanteAntonelli]

When you consider how the prison system in the US works you'd understand it way better when comparing it to the Matrix.

The Architect is played by the prison system's owners, the inmates are the humans connected to the matrix, the money is the "energy" they produce.

America is fucked, the criminals work for the system and they are not aware of it.

[gmasi08]

How did he have the strength to climb up there drunk?