In the 1957, two prisoners were executed in Georgia’s electric chair in Reidsville whom were brothers George Krull, 36, and Michael Krull, 32.

@Snceday1

5 күн бұрын

You googled that and copy and pasted that in the comments

Wardens eyes rolling like he's sitting in electric chair

Georgia female death row inmate Rebecca Machetti Smith received a retrial in 1982. At her second trial, the jury recommended mercy and she was sentenced to life imprisonment. She served 34 years in prison and was paroled at the age of 71 in 2009. In September, 2020 Rebecca Machetti Smith, 81 died of COVID.

@privateprivate1865

4 ай бұрын

Wow

@laurataylor8179

Ай бұрын

Crazy case

A study in California interviewed death row inmates the day prior to their execution. All of them reported they didn't consider the possibility of execution prior to committing the crime. All of them thought they would not be caught and convicted. Therefore the death penalty was NOT a determent.

@earl4989

4 күн бұрын

Of course it's not. Capital punishment is no more of a deterrent than the surgeon's general warnings on cigarettes or liquor. The reason why they don't work is because nobody EVER thinks that the awful stuff is going to happen to them....Until it does.

I've never seen a white chair it seems less frightening.

@richardkallio3868

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know about that. Those bloody cables more than make up for it, IMO.

@moneyman1995100

Жыл бұрын

Alabamas is Yellow.

@nightwolfgamingandirlvlogs9330

3 ай бұрын

@@moneyman1995100*was

@moneyman1995100

3 ай бұрын

@@nightwolfgamingandirlvlogs9330 It is still an option surprisingly!

@bigdaddy7119

18 күн бұрын

@@nightwolfgamingandirlvlogs9330 still is

Thanks!

Barbaric.

@eckhardt76

2 ай бұрын

Barbaric crimes often times lead to a barbaric end.

@Perfectpearl

11 күн бұрын

@@eckhardt76the people pulling the switch are NO BETTER than the prisoner.

@Perfectpearl

11 күн бұрын

I agree. Extremely barbaric

Georgia also recorded each execution on audio tape. PBS made a documentary on the tapes. On each tape, a state official is heard narrating the execution to the attorney general and corrections director over the phone back in Atlanta. kzread.info/dash/bejne/kYGF19VsiM6nfZc.html

@MontgomeryMall

Жыл бұрын

Yes that was done for legal CYA in an era when defense attorneys were filing suits against electrocution as cruel and unusual punishment. They wanted to have a record of what exactly transpired with the protocol (and possibly stave off a court order to videotape an electrocution). Coincidentally, Willis Marable, the primary narrator on the Georgia execution audio tapes, died last year at the age of 88.

@RickO4404

Жыл бұрын

@Montgomery Mall ... As far as I know, no executions anywhere in the U.S. have been videotaped. In the post-Furman era, executions have always been conducted in a secluded area inside of a prison. Executions were at one time, public spectacles; where the condemned prisoner was hung in the county in which he or she was convicted, most often on a gallows that was built adjacent to the county jail or county court house.

@MontgomeryMall

Жыл бұрын

@@RickO4404 The execution of Robert Alton Harris in the San Quentin gas chamber in 1992 was videotaped. The footage was never released from being under court seal and was eventually destroyed. The July, 2011 lethal injection of Georgia death row inmate Andrew Deyoung was also videotaped as part of another inmates litigation against pentobarbital. That videotape remains under the seal of the Georgia Supreme Court and cannot be aired nor duplicated without their consent.

@RickO4404

Жыл бұрын

@Montgomery Mall ... Perhaps I should have said videotaped for public dissemination. In other words, executions are always carried out outside of the public eye. The news media aren't allowed to record an execution, either. The executions in Georgia in the electric chair in the 1980s were recorded on audio tape. Other than hearing the Warden give the command to "press your buttons," there is no audible evidence of the condemned men actually being electrocuted. The three buttons are on the control unit of the apparatus, and are pressed simultaneously, so none of the three persons who pressed the buttons could be certain that they actually started the current flowing to the condemned man.

@laurataylor8179

Ай бұрын

Much better then alabama there tapes of them

Is this the chair from the 1984 audio recordings?

@KayinnaStraughter91-pe7ku

6 ай бұрын

No it was the Jacksonville electric chair

@Eggnoodlesandketchup3

6 ай бұрын

@@KayinnaStraughter91-pe7ku oh right, thanks

The best thing to say to someone who is about to be electrocuted is don’t sit down

:40 The music 😂😂

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@compositesketch9705

Жыл бұрын

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@killingmasheen

9 ай бұрын

I know. It took me years of research to come to the same conclusion. The electric chair wasn't anywhere near as bad as it's been described and depicted in movies. Turns out Thomas Edison's silent movie reenactment of the execution of Leo Czolgosz was pretty accurate. There's nothing all that dramatic about it, the body stiffens and the head sticks up in the air and remains frozen in that position until the power is cut. That Ted Bundy biopic from 2002 did it right but they missed out on many of the details of the Florida chair. The primary complaint about the electric chair by witnesses wasn't it's effectiveness or the apparent suffering of the condemned, it was the smell.

@erichaley4485

9 ай бұрын

Some families,who loved ones were electrocuted that wanted to claim the bodies of the executed kinfolk would either have a closed casket funeral or simply refuse to bury them, because most of the time they would appear as if they were in a house fire. They burn them up that bad 😞

@killingmasheen

9 ай бұрын

@@erichaley4485 No, normally the burning is limited to the contact points unless for whatever reason the head catches fire or some other mishap occurs. The first thing you must learn is not all electric chairs were created equally. There's no such thing as 'the electric chair' in general terms like you'd associate with hanging or the guillotine, it's 'an electric chair'. It's the Sing Sing chair or the Virginia chair or whatever state you're talking about because no two were alike. Some were well designed and produced consistent results while others were hack jobs using cobbled together off the shelf parts that were either too powerful or not strong enough. I can give you an example of each in the modern era, the Nebraska chair and the Georgia chair. The Nebraska chair put out 2460 volts at 10 amps and in Georgia it was 2000v @ 5A. The Nebraska chair was overpowered to the point where they couldn't deliver charges longer than 10 seconds without excessive smoking although it always smoked a little. In Georgia there were numerous instances where it took multiple cycles to finish the job, the execution of Alpha Otis Stephens in 1984 is a particularly notorious example. Another important aspect to it was the surface area of the contact points. Because the human body is such a poor conductor of electricity, the amount of current draw can be 'tuned' by using larger or smaller electrodes. Of course these are factors which can only be learned through first hand experience because you really can't test for it. Particularly earlier on there was quite alot of experimentation going on which often produced gruesome results. Most of these horror stories we hear about like eyeballs popping out of their sockets or melting faces came largely from this era. If you look up the Ted Bundy autopsy photos, you'll see that although the top of his head is burned up bad but his face looks normal. It almost looks like he's still alive, you can even see he's tired in his eyes showing that his eyeballs didn't pop out during his execution. Had he had a proper funeral (he was cremated) with an open casket and all, it might have been a little challenging covering up the top of his head but otherwise the rest of him looks perfectly presentable. There are some ethical questions here about whether a murderer is entitled to such treatment but that's a separate issue. Most of the time presentablity wasn't really the issue a family would refuse to take the body back, it was either they couldn't afford it or they wanted to avoid the social stigma or that the condemned had no family. There are numerous examples where people executed in the electric chair had large funerals with open casket wakes like the Rosenbergs or Sacco and Vanzetti.

The death penalty was, is, and should forever be used as a punishment, not a deterrent. A deterrent is a byproduct.

@Yoogi-ed3hz

Жыл бұрын

What do people like you say about innocent people who’ve been executed and the future people who are waiting to die who’s also innocent since u seem to be so “Pro Death Penalty”?🤔

@johnneal7169

Жыл бұрын

@Yoogi 8400 "People like me"? First, I was only speaking for myself. Where did I say I was speaking for "people like me"? Second, to answer your question from MY pov only, if the person meets the criteria for that particular state and that person is 100% beyond any doubt guilty, then that person shall lay in the bed they knowingly made. Lastly, you do not know me. I argue louder for the people on DR that they can't prove beyond ANY doubt to be given life. Our system needs fixed, this I know. Stop rewarding DA's and detectives for merely convicting someone. Reward them for finding out the absolute truth. Nobody should be on DR without definitive truth. I could go on forever on this subject because it is a life and death deal. I do not see how some DA's or detectives lives with themselves knowing that they themselves don't know the absolute truth, or they are going after someone because they don't think a person should act like that, or grieve like that, or whatever else like that. I've seen so many times they'd do this and completely wreck families lives, to say in the least. However, if someone has been 100% proven guilty, then again I have no issue with it. I guarantee you by the time someone like that ends up on DR they've already gotten away with countless other violent crimes. They knowingly did all this with a death penalty hanging potentially over their head.

@johncassani6780

Жыл бұрын

I agree with both of your comments. There needs to be great certainty about guilt, including the fairness of the trial. I don’t think it’s any better to send an innocent man to prison for the rest of his life. And yes, it is, primarily, the fittingness of the punishment that makes recourse to the death penalty important. It should not be automatic, in my opinion. Juries and judges should have the authority to extend clemency. As far as the deterrent part goes, it must be a byproduct of the punishment. If it becomes primary, punishing the innocent may actually be seen as more effective than scrupulously determining guilt. In my view, it is part of human dignity (a scary part, for sure) that we are, each of us, capable of making a choice that will forfeit our right to life.

@Yoogi-ed3hz

Жыл бұрын

@@johnneal7169 Great

@snalemsnolek1539

Жыл бұрын

@@Yoogi-ed3hzif that is an argument against the death penalty, then we should use that exact argument against war. But hey.. are you against the war permanently nourished by new arms sent to Ukraine? Guess not. I will not accept this as an argument against the death penalty.

Video is one year old today(:

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The chair looks incredibly foolish. Clown chair for a clown execution.

@lander77477

9 ай бұрын

Its not about how it looks, its about what it does

@snalemsnolek1539

9 ай бұрын

Yes, but it is also about how it looks like while doing so

Where do the witnesses sit?

@lander77477

9 ай бұрын

It looks like there is some space in front of the chair where they set up regular chairs for witnesses, though its hard to see that from the angles this documentary shows. Unlike all modern execution chambers, it looks like there's no wall and window separating the witnesses from the electric chair, but a 100 years ago or more thats how they did it.

@Lee-Darin

9 ай бұрын

@@lander77477 makes sense

@clazza65

9 ай бұрын

Anywhere but the white chair.

@MontgomeryMall

4 ай бұрын

They would stand up against the wall in front of the chair. A partition door (seen on right hand side of image at 0:40) could be slid open and closed between them and the chair. There would be three rows of folding chairs set up for witnesses - the front row no further than five to six feet from the condemned.

The official guy who described the theory was all very well and good if it happened like that but often more than not it doesn't. I know that s good number of US States (23 at present) have opted not to use the death penalty any more. I believe that eventually every US State will abolish the death penalty in favour of a custodial life sentence without hope of parole or release.

@your_royal_highness

Ай бұрын

Tell that to Texas politicians. That state enthusiastically executes people.

*""CRUCIFIXION IS GRUSOME TO THEPOINT OF DYING-SLOWLY, ""THEROMANS PERFECTED CRUCIFIXION SOME 500-YEARS""!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

@davidyonce2238

Жыл бұрын

Murder is gruesome.

@compositesketch9705

Жыл бұрын

@@davidyonce2238 *""MURDER ISN'T GRUSOME AT ALL""!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

@compositesketch9705

Жыл бұрын

@@davidyonce2238 *""KILLING ISN'T GRUSOME, ""I HAVESEEN THESTYPES OF EVENTS OVERSEAS IN JALALABAD AND ISLAMABAD""!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

@compositesketch9705

Жыл бұрын

@@davidyonce2238 *""IF YOUWANT TO TAKE IT FURTHER, ""CRUCIFIXION IS SOMEWHAT GRUSOME, ""THEROMANS CANTELL-YOU THIS FOR A FACT""!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

@compositesketch9705

Жыл бұрын

@@davidyonce2238 *""IS IT O.K. WHEN AMERICAN-POLICE KILL AMERICAN-SUBJECTS LIKE ROBERT RUSS NORTHWESTERN COLLEGE FOOTBALL-STAR""????????*

I hate the death penalty but I guess we must have to live in this society

@sfullernj

Жыл бұрын

You don't HAVE to. Most countries don't

@pieterveenders9793

5 ай бұрын

You don't have to, civilised countries all abolished it long ago. Not a single EU country has it for example, and with the exception of Belarus not a single European country has the death penalty either.

Jackson ga South of Atlanta about 40 miles. It's a horrible scary place to be do time. It's awful.

Flooded with volunteers? What the hell kind of person would volunteer to do a job like that? I’d want to keep a close eye on such an individual. 🥺

@jaydawg2023

6 ай бұрын

Those are people wanting to uphold and even carry out the Law. And receive nothing in return. Volunteers. Good citizens.

Rebecca Machete smith?😂

If someone dis ask me to do this I would say no

Why does the e chair have to look like my kitchen chairs, btw this sounds a lot simpler than how Ted Bundy made it look in his movie

@earl4989

4 күн бұрын

This was a real convict-made chair. Other states claim to have a convict-made chair, like Virginia, but their chair was made by a early 1900's company called Trenton Pattern Works, in Trenton, NJ. In the early 1900s, a man named Carl F Adams, of NJ, designed and built several electric chairs in prisons around the nation. At the time, the electric chair with chair, electrical apparatus, cables and sponges, used to cost about $3,700 in 1908. THIS chair was created by convicts and likely a local electric contractor was contacted about the apparatus, which saved the state money.

@Juju75663

4 күн бұрын

@@earl4989 woah, that’s a lot of info, u know way more then me

The death chamber phone would *not* have been connected to the Georgia Governor's office. The Govermor in Georgia does not have any power to stay, commute or pardon the sentence. Under state law those powers rest with the five member Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles. Instead the phone would be connected to the Attorney General of Georgia office in Atlanta.

Pretty cool video. Never seen a white electric chair. I'm for capital punishment if you hurt a woman or a child or for sex offenders

@jetaddicted

Жыл бұрын

Oh are you? You will then accept to bear responsibility for the murder of the wrongfully condemned that have been executed, and you know there have been some in the past, so there will be more. That makes you a revenge murderer.

@kylejimmerson9985

Жыл бұрын

@Donnell Okafor I guess I mean like if you forcefully rape a woman or kill a woman.

@CLR2TKF

Жыл бұрын

You are a sexist. A life is a life. A man's life has just as much value as anyone else.

@CLR2TKF

Жыл бұрын

@Donnell Okafor It's not an insult, it's just a fact. Someone who thinks women deserve better treatment than men is a sexist.

@erichaley4485

9 ай бұрын

Georgias white lightning

You take someone's life, you forfeit your own. Imho.

@oldironsides4107

5 ай бұрын

So you value let’s say an abortion baby equally to a hooker or bum?

@oldironsides4107

5 ай бұрын

Or what Formed Your opinion on life

@rappers5719

5 ай бұрын

@@oldironsides4107 It cuts down the reoffending rate.

@maverickdallas1004

Ай бұрын

A passage in the Bible states that whomever maliciously and unnecessarily causes another's blood to be spilt, so shall their own blood be spilt.

@Spillers72

23 күн бұрын

Up to the 1960s, Georgia and many other states executed rapists too.

if yoy kill some one during robbery or mugging you need to pay with your own life

So many innocent people have died on death row in the south. Pretty wild