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{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help){{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)Once considered a humane alternative to hanging and the firing squad, electrocution is now seen by many people in Florida as the preferred way of exacting justice for a much different reason: because it poses the possibility of pain.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[M]any medical experts throughout this century have noted the unpredictability of electricity's effect on the human body and the inability to ascertain exactly when consciousness is lost and when death takes place. "[T]he space of time before death supervenes varies according to the subject. Some have a greater physiological resistance than others." Over sixty years ago [as of 1993], a prominent physician, contradicting assertions that the initial shock of electricity leaves the victim "brain dead," observed that "[t]he brain has four parts. The current may touch only one of those four parts, so that the individual retains consciousness and a keen sense of agony. For the sufferer, time stands still; and this excruciating torture seems to last for an eternity." […] In order for consciousness to be lost, or nerve activity destroyed, the electrical current would have to penetrate the brain. However, during an electrocution, the condemned's brain is "incapacitated through [the] relatively slow process of heating up by the passage of electricity through the body. In short, the brain literally cooks until death occurs.