The year is one from the future. I am strapped down to a gurney in the execution chamber. I have
been condemned to die by lethal injection, and all for a crime I didn't even make any money from.
The executioners swab my arm with alcohol, then insert the IV. A sequence of drugs passes though
them and into my system; pentobarbital, pancuronium bromide, potassium chloride.
However, being Irish, the alcohol swabbed on my arm provides me extraordinary vitality,
and I survive the injection. So what do they do now? What happens when a person is still
alive after the execution? Do they just let you go? Oh hell, no - my ass is grass.
Death penalties are generally fairly explicit in mentioning you must be dead by the end of
the proceedings. So whether by electric chair, firing squad or lethal injection;
if they didn't get you the first time they're just gonna try again. It's the only prison sentence
they make sure has a 100% rehabillitation rate - they guarantee you won't re-offend after this one.
This has happened many times before too; electric chair put inmate in a state of excrutiating agony
instead of killing them? Oops! Well, not to worry, just blast 'em again. But what
if your executioners don't know you've survived? Well, it turns out that's happened before too!
Wenceslao Moguel was born in Mexico around 1890. As a young man he joined the rebel
forces during the Mexican revolution. His unit was poorly armed and inexperienced,
and they were captured in 1915. Branded traitors, they were sentenced to death without trial.
And so, they were lined up against a wall. The firing squad consisted of 8 soldiers and one
officer, who would deliver the coup de grace after the soldiers had fired,
to ensure death. One by one the rebels were executed, until it was Moguel's turn.
The firing squad opened fire, hitting Moguel in the head and body. As he lay on the ground,
the officer approached with his revolver and shot him point blank in the head. In total,
Wenceslao Moguel had been shot nine times.
With another battle penciled into their schedules, the soldiers left the bodies where they lay.
Unbenknownst to them, Moguel was still alive. He pretended to be dead and waited
for his executioners to piss off. He had just taken a hell of a lot of bullets,
way more than the recommended daily intake, and was in a lot of pain. Nevertheless he arose
from the bodies and staggered off to find help. Finding a church several blocks away, he stumbled
in and found someone to help him. The bullets were pulled out and the wounds stitched up,
leaving Moguel permanently disfigured, but otherwise healthy - despite being shot in the head
numerous times, he didn't suffer any brain damage. He went into hiding until the revolution ended and
it was safe for him to be seen. After this, he just continued on with his normal life - although
sometimes his appearance would prompt questions, which Moguel obliged with his story of surviving
an execution. In 1930, he moved to the United States, where the questions continued,
as did the telling of the story. Obviously, it's an incredible story and one
can only imagine the impact it had on the type of people who ask others why they're so disfigured.
The story spread and eventually, it made its way into the ears of Robert L. Ripley,
founder of Ripley's Believe It or Not! Ripley featured Moguel and his story on his radio show,
which widely popularised the legend of 'El Fusilado' - the one who was shot.
Under this nickname, Moguel toured around America, allowing fans of the radio story to see his wounds
with their own eyes, making the unbelievable believable. He eventually returned to Mexico,
where he died in 1975. It's unknown what his exact age was, but he was in his seventies or eighties,
vastly outperforming the life expectancy of most execution victims.
Rest in peace, Wenceslao Moguel, "El Fusilado".
Your legend has inspired me to start microdosing the drugs they use for lethal injection,
so that I can build up a tolerance and become immune to execution. As I stated in the intro,
this won't stop the executioners so I'll have to do the same with electricity and also bullets.
I'm hoping there's an unwritten loophole in the death penalty when they just run out of options.
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death penalty at some stage in the future?" to which I respond; this is a a pre-recorded video,
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