Reminds me of the failed electric chair execution in SF

In Reply to: When the death penalty failed, what did they do? posted by Copyboy on October 01, 2026 at 15:40:32

Cable Car driver was sentenced to die in the electric chair but for some reason all the attempts failed.

They eventually figured out why

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• It should really be by firing squad CoastalBruin 16:56:03 10/01/26 (19)
  • Guillotines seem to have a high success rate. mh 10:05:20 10/02/26 (2)
    • public, no...Pay Per View, oh hells yeah! ClockBlocker 15:23:49 10/02/26 (0)
    • Getting closer ever day CoastalBruin 12:56:09 10/02/26 (0)
  • Would you be willing to kill people for a living? ClockBlocker 21:53:47 10/01/26 (5)
    • Not in a thousand years Dr.J 10:39:58 10/02/26 (1)
      • Doc J *is* Michael Fassbender *in*... ClockBlocker 15:21:39 10/02/26 (0)
    • Yes, if... CoastalBruin 08:24:04 10/02/26 (2)
      • Thanks for the discourse ClockBlocker 10:23:37 10/02/26 (1)
        • +1* CoastalBruin 11:47:10 10/02/26 (0)
  • Historically firing squads were notoriously inefficient Dr.J 17:20:20 10/01/26 (9)
    • I'd like to see an analysis of failure rates CoastalBruin 17:41:05 10/01/26 (8)
      • What happened to the gas chamber? TheHappyBurgermeister 19:47:22 10/01/26 (4)
        • Where's that Zyklon B when you need it? ClockBlocker 21:58:46 10/01/26 (0)
        • Morbid story CoastalBruin 21:10:52 10/01/26 (0)
        • My understanding is that the difference with humans is . . . BluBlood 21:10:12 10/01/26 (1)
          • That's the monstrosity of it blindness 22:43:31 10/01/26 (0)
      • It's deeply, deeply flawed. Copyboy 19:18:27 10/01/26 (2)
        • No one has asked why the SF guy who drove Cable Cars couldn’t… Dr.J 20:29:24 10/01/26 (1)
          • I actually looked up that joke... ClockBlocker 10:26:21 10/02/26 (0)

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