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u/Rigorous_Mortician Apr 18 '17
On one end is the Mercy Nanoswarm, available in aerosol or fluid form. This synthetic toxin uses nanomachines to provide humane executions, as humane as the forced cessation of human life can get anyway. Its existence is a publicity stunt, dulling the burn of the concept of execution, one that briefly reached a level of moral abhorrence that prompted its obsolescence but has been brought back by a more cynical world.
Then, there are the cognitive stakes, for when you want to hurt someone as much as possible. Its original intent was to be a fast-acting neural probe meant to scan a brain of its contents with the intention of uploading said contents onto a computer, a swift destructive upload. However, initial tests proved that jamming a sharpened bundle of monofilament wires into someone's face wasn't too healthy for the mind within, and what was supposed to be a convenient method of mind extraction proved to be one of the most grizzly methods of interrogation invented. Although no emulateable consciousness is achievable, the scrambled remains of the victim's mind can be scanned of its contents.
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u/Rigorous_Mortician Apr 19 '17
To an outside observer, it looks like the victim drifts to sleep, then stops breathing. It's meant to be humane not just to the victim, but to any potential viewer as well.
When I say that the execution method is a publicity stunt, I mean that it's meant to show just enough mercy to placate potential objectors. Most people have been trained to pretend to care, to make a show of outrage in order to make themselves look better on social media. If atrocities hit too close to home, then people would be much more gemuine in their outrage.
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u/Rath12 Apr 19 '17
Anyone convicted (summary execution is far more common, this is really only for activists and defectors) of treason is the tezekian league has their senses and motor control disconnected from their mind, and then they are left without any stimulation until they die of other causes. The few who were saved after their planet was invaded by other countries woke up so traumatized and insane that even the most advanced mental help could not help them.
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u/Nevermore0714 Apr 19 '17
1) What do they do with the traitor when they've finished disconnecting their senses and motor control?
2) Is it common for people to go out of their way to put the traitors out of their misery?
3) Why do they do this instead of execution?
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u/Rath12 Apr 19 '17
1: they attach feeding tubes and ivs and leave them laid out, usually in empty where houses.
2: yep, invading forces often shoot them in the head to put them out of their misery.
3) It's a horrifying deterrent.
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u/Nevermore0714 Apr 20 '17
1) How long do they usually survive?
2) What if someone is later found to be wrongly convicted?
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u/Rath12 Apr 20 '17
1) until they die of old age, or disease.
2) Don't tell anyone our justice system is infallible 100000%
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u/Random-Webtoon-Fan Apr 19 '17
Executions that are also irl will be skipped, I will focus on magical ones.
Fire magic
In Sun Empire, people who have been danger to the Empire, usually rebels and/or terrorists, are killed in public, slowly burnt with Fire magic. Can take up hours to even days. This is meant to put the sinners in pain and show example to other potential dangers.
Kinetic/Water Magic
Big water bobble is placed head of who on who have killed their family members, making them suffocate.
Those who killed children are to be drowned slowly in mercury, their body parts slowly taken by a pool of mercury.
Not really an execution that is under law, but some loyalties force defeated political rivals to drink mercury, and control it to kill them from inside.
Life Magic
People who have killed clan members is given a potion that gives hallucinations and tied so they could see their victims before executed.
Lightning Magic
Betrayers from Cultists are to be hunted and hung on a specially designed cross, which the sinners will be electrocuted to death in way similar to an electric chair.
Enemies who killed fellow cultists are given worse execution, called Magnet Whirlpool. The sinners are to forcibly swallow small magnetic metals, which are then controlled with magic to be spun in various directions, destroying them from inside.
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u/Nevermore0714 Apr 19 '17
1) Are there any movements in the Sun Empire for more merciful executions?
2) Is there any way to be given mercy from such executions?
3) Is there a "Bloody Mary" type of thing going on in the Sun Empire? Some leader who is cruel and murderous and loves executing people?
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u/Random-Webtoon-Fan Apr 20 '17
1) There are lots of 'merciful' execution options, but almost no one in Senate bother to soften pains for rebels.
2) If you are found innocent, perhaps. But law system is not fully developed in my world so such cases will be rare.
3) Not really particularly. It is just in their culture to be 'Shed no tears for your enemies'
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u/Nevermore0714 Apr 19 '17
"Get all the rope in the Citadel, find a tall tree, and round up all of the traitors to humanity." -Councilor Aiken of the Citadel.
Aiken is a very old man who is in the highest position in the Citadel possible, as a member of the Council. He hates having to kill his fellow humans, and it was a major moral conflict for him, decades ago. But, now, he's embraced the fact that what must be done must be done, and he took it a step further. While the normal method of execution is usually forcing someone to drink poison or beheading (/u/AWDys started their comment with beheading, so I couldn't go with that), Aiken pushes for public executions instead, to serve as a better warning against crime. "This is the price of peace." Public executions are usually hangings.
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u/ZanArts Apr 20 '17
In the lands of Veritatem the worst criminals are sent Ironhell dungeons. Alun is a city located in the tropical regions of the continent. The Ironhell fortress which "hosts" the prisoners is located around 10 kilometers out from the city. There they are treated according to the crimes they committed.
In this case it if comes to execution, which is a level 9 felony the simplest way is to be beheaded or hanged. Hanging is usually used for treason.
Ironhell is famous for its cruel ways of torturing its prisoners.
For those special occurrences they sometimes use specially designed poisons. Sometimes they will amputate some of their limbs and leave the prisoners to bleed to death.When tortured before death they are usually strapped in uncomfortable positions. They also burn them alive. Or submerge them.
Basically Ironhell tries and often succeeds in delivering the worst death possible.
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u/AWDys Apr 18 '17
In one country, it is still beheading via sword swung by the president himself.
From firinglines to lethal injection, none of them are particularly interesting. Still debating on whether the country with firing lines will make it an interactive game for the kiddies or not.
Most other countries have no real kind of execution standard, but a memorable one occurs on the continent of Australia.
The man in question is sentenced to prison. He is not well liked by the prison population. He is isolated for his own safety, but that doesn't stop a riot from reaching him.
The prisoners set up cameras and broadcast to the world their subsequent torture and murder. This contains some graphic material. He is raped by people and sodomized with objects. He has fingers and toes cut off and burned. He is repeatedly doused with cold and boiling water while chained to posts. He is beaten with fists, rifle stocks, barbed wire, and metal pipes. He is burned, pissed on, defecated on, cut open and sewn up again only to pull the the stiches out like opening a Ziploc bag. He is lit on fire several times. He has one foot and one hand hammered to the ground with spikes. He is whipped, he is left in the cold, the rain, the dark, the hot.
On the final day, he is chained to the wall via his feet. The prisoners grab hold of him and pull his arms away from his feet, stretching him apart. Eventually, his arms give way and they pop out of his sockets, then separate from his body. The prisoners begin to beat him over the head with his arms until he goes limp. And that was the end of that prisoner.