Execution: A Guide to the Ultimate Penalty by Abbott Geoffrey

Author:Abbott, Geoffrey [Abbott, Geoffrey]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: History
ISBN: 9780857657732
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Published: 2012-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

‘Death occurs due to the separation of the brain and spinal cord, after transaction of the surrounding tissues, and must cause acute and probably severe pain. It may be presumed that the subject becomes unconscious within a few seconds, but not immediately after, the spinal cord is severed.

The eyes of small rodents move for a few seconds after biochemists have guillotined them. Anaesthetised sheep lose the flash-evoked responses of their electrocorticographs about 14 seconds after both carotid arteries are severed, and 70 seconds after one carotid artery and one jugular vein are cut (vide Gregory and Wotton, 1984). Dogs become unconscious 12 seconds after the blood supply to their brains is occluded (Roberts, 1954). It has been calculated that the human brain has enough oxygen stored for metabolism to persist about seven seconds after the supply is cut off (McIlwain and Bachelard, 1985). However, the brain could well derive some of its energy from substrate in the scalp and facial and neck muscles (Geiger and Magnes, 1947). It may be presumed that a beheaded person dies from anoxia consequent upon haemorrhage.’

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