Question About Del's Execution

Del didn't burn his rape victim alive and his other casualties were accidental not premeditated....the way he died by electrocuted burns was much much worse, saying he met his just end is quite horrible...even Percy turned his face away.

By the way about the wet sponge, was it a necessity by law to use it then or was it entirely up to the prison guards....death by passing electricity through the body, accomplished either way, they couldn't have shot him on grounds that there was no wet sponge!!

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In a room full of people, missing the head or a ricochet could easily hit someone else in the room...especially when everyone was running around in a panic.

They wanted the room of witnesses to think that all was going smoothly. That that what was going on was normal. If they'd have shot him, they would have probably all lost their jobs due to people thinking that they were incompetent and couldn't perform an execution properly, all due to Percy's actions.
The warden was trying to tell everyone to keep calm and everything was alright.

My guess is that the law, at the time, mandated death by electrocution on the chair. So they had to kill him with the chair. Not a gun

They also couldn’t shut the chair off, wet the sponge, and then restart the chair. The reason is that he was still conscious. Shutting off the chair would’ve prolonged Dell’s suffering, made him feel the pain longer, made him scream more horrifically etc etc.

What a dumbass thread.

Whenever a cop, guard, or anyone authorized by the government to carry a gun discharges it, an investigation follows to determine if the action was justified and done according to all regulations and laws. Any guard who shot Del would have had a lot of splainin' to do, and might have lost his job or even been prosecuted.

Without a plan in place to use a gun to end a botched execution, nobody would have been sure if it was justified or legal to have done so. In the chaos and adrenalized turmoil of the moment, it's possible that it didn't even occur to anyone to do it.

Inside a room with masonry walls and several people standing around, a missed or through-and-through shot would have ricocheted and might have hit someone.

The SOB was a heinous murderer. Maybe they all figured he deserved what he was getting. I sure as hell did.

I've seen this film once. is this the botched one? where they don't wet the sponge? (not a euphemism). it's one of the scenes I hate most in any movie I've watched