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Why do condemned inmates do this?

I have read in my studies,these include prison death watch logs,on a paper for college on electrocutions in the electric chair,that all the male convicts that were electrocuted had allowed their bladders to fill up completely and not one of them emptied their bladders when the warden and guards came for them and asked them to empty their bladders before they were taken to the electric chair for their electrocutions,all the condemned men told the warden and guards that they had just emptied their bladders right before they came for them.

Why would all the male convicts allow their bladders to fill up completely and then go to their electrocutions with full bladders?

Would having a full bladder help the electricity kill them quicker?

And as a second thought,why were all the male convicts asked by the wardens and guards to empty their bladders right before they were taken for their electrocutions? I would think that is out of place.

This was always when the male inmates were to electrocuted in the electric chair,I read that if the inmates were being executed by lethal injection,they never allowed their bladders to fill up completely,they always emptied their bladders before being taken to the gurney.

Why was it only done by all the male inmates who were going to be electrocuted,and not by the male inmates who were going to be given the lethal injection?


    




Elayne
They probably think it's funny that someone will have to clean up their urine after they are dead.


Winchester
Never heard of this but when the current of the electricity hits the body, it hits with such force that it can and has in the past blown out the bottom of the inmates feet. Most times they place the feet in foot tubs just in case.............I would think if the bladder was full as well as the bowel, both would explode and someone would have a mess to clean up afterwards. Some inmates would enjoy knowing they left this mess for someone else to clean up.........Terrible but so true............


B G
I don't know the real answer to your question, but would like to take a guess....if you were going to the electric chair with a full bladder when you died your bladder would empty out on its own, that would leave a bit of a mess.....the guards would be stuck cleaning up ?


Kael M
Rating
One last F*ck you to the guards.


J
the cellulars


Texas Star
Wow, dude..... you need a new hobby.


Jeff B
It's an "urban legend" that a death row inmate facing electrocution will die faster and cleaner when his bladder empties into the electric chair. It is possible that this is true to a certain extent if the man urinates before the electricity is turned lose since electricity conducts well through water, which of course urine mainly consists of. But at the point the bladder empties after the voltage has been loosed, death will have already occured, so in reality the act is pointless.The warden just doesn't want his people to have any more of a mess than necessary to clean up, even though I believe most corrections personnel are committed to the cleanest and most humane execution possible.





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