Montana Execution

The rubber diaper is, as some have said, simply there to keep the person from urinating and defecating on themselves. While this happens regardless of the cause of death, the muscle response to the current can make the excrement and urine evacuate the body at a higher than normal rate.

Today, executions are carried out behind prison walls with only a small group of witnesses in attendance.State laws vary as to who is allowed to watch an execution, but in general, these are the people who are allowed to be witnesses: Relatives of the victim(s) Relatives of the prisoner.

According to the Bureau of Justice and Death Penalty Information Center, the average time from sentencing to execution for was just around 16 years. If no appeals are raised, that process can happen as soon as six months, but that rarely happens.

If the person being executed were not already completely unconscious, the injection of a highly concentrated solution of potassium chloride could cause severe pain at the site of the IV line, as well as along the punctured vein; it interrupts the electrical activity of the heart muscle and causes it to stop beating,

The electric chair was first invented as a more humane alternative to hanging. Like the guillotine and the lethal injection, it was seen as civilised and scientific.