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Oct. 19th, 2003 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottobearRob came by today, picked up my fans and tossed them in. I really appreciate the help he's been lately. Hopefully now Mr. computer and his little brother will stay cool, collected, and properly shared.
A lot of ACIM calls today, but I was pleased to hear from Doug, as well. I need to call him back shortly, as we got our convo truncated when I had fiddle with PCAnywhere.
Mr. Deadguy.
Random War & Death Factoids - 313 union army soldiers died of sunstroke during the U.S. Civil War and 60% of Military Casualties in the Civil War was a result of disease... the worst fatality rate of any war in U.S. History. (When you assemble a large number of strangers in crowded, unsanitary conditions, you not only have an army, you also have the finest breeding ground for infectious disease.)
Tartars, (circa 1350) used bodies of plague victims as catapult ammunition versus the cities they were besieging.
The gas chamber has two chairs; so two criminals can be executed at once. (The last double gas execution was in 1962) Of the 38 states with capital punishment, only Arizona, California, Maryland, Missouri and Wyoming still allow for the use of lethal gas and all offer lethal injection as an option.
A study of the execution records of 113 prisoners executed at San Quentin showed that the average time taken to kill them was 9.3 minutes. The prisoner will usually loose consciousness between one and three minutes after the gas hits their face and the doctor will pronounce them dead in around ten to twelve minutes. An exhaust fan then sucks the poison air out of the chamber. The corpse is sprayed with ammonia, which neutralizes traces of the cyanide that may remain. After about half an hour, prison staff enters the chamber, wearing gas masks and rubber gloves. Their training manual advises them to ruffle the victim's hair to release and trapped cyanide gas before removing him.
A lot of ACIM calls today, but I was pleased to hear from Doug, as well. I need to call him back shortly, as we got our convo truncated when I had fiddle with PCAnywhere.
Mr. Deadguy.
Random War & Death Factoids - 313 union army soldiers died of sunstroke during the U.S. Civil War and 60% of Military Casualties in the Civil War was a result of disease... the worst fatality rate of any war in U.S. History. (When you assemble a large number of strangers in crowded, unsanitary conditions, you not only have an army, you also have the finest breeding ground for infectious disease.)
Tartars, (circa 1350) used bodies of plague victims as catapult ammunition versus the cities they were besieging.
The gas chamber has two chairs; so two criminals can be executed at once. (The last double gas execution was in 1962) Of the 38 states with capital punishment, only Arizona, California, Maryland, Missouri and Wyoming still allow for the use of lethal gas and all offer lethal injection as an option.
A study of the execution records of 113 prisoners executed at San Quentin showed that the average time taken to kill them was 9.3 minutes. The prisoner will usually loose consciousness between one and three minutes after the gas hits their face and the doctor will pronounce them dead in around ten to twelve minutes. An exhaust fan then sucks the poison air out of the chamber. The corpse is sprayed with ammonia, which neutralizes traces of the cyanide that may remain. After about half an hour, prison staff enters the chamber, wearing gas masks and rubber gloves. Their training manual advises them to ruffle the victim's hair to release and trapped cyanide gas before removing him.
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mr dead guy looks like jim carey.
Date: 2003-10-19 04:29 pm (UTC)