• Stern@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      I had heard anecdotes of the head surviving for several seconds before death in that case. The aesthetic is top tier though.

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        9 hours ago

        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.

      • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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        16 hours ago

        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.