http://www.guillotine.dk/pages/30sek.html
 
This is an account of a doctor's examination of a man who'd just been executed by guillotine in 1905.
 
The severed head continued to respond for 25-30 seconds after decapitation.
 
We've not made a lot of progress. Ohio just executed a man this month using an experimental chemical concoction. It took him 10 minutes to die.

bitflipper
 
We've not made a lot of progress. Ohio just executed a man this month using an experimental chemical concoction. It took him 10 minutes to die.

Indeed. One would hope that we'd have evolved beyond that point, but there's still plenty of those worthless scums out there raping and killing women...
 
Oh wait, you meant... Nevermind.

You mean weird stuff like THIS? 
 

bitflipperThe severed head continued to respond for 25-30 seconds after decapitation.
 

 
I sometimes continue to quiver for longer than that after participating in a thread upstairs!

FSF?  

I swear I once saw a documentary about emergency responders where a paramedic says that when they arrived at the scene of a car crash, one of the victims had been decapitated but had managed to step out of the vehicle, stand up, and was leaning on the door. 
 
Or maybe I just watched too much Tom and Jerry when I was a kid. The memory's there anyhow. 

I once saw a guy being sentenced to death and decapitated, back in Montreal. True Story.
It wasn't pretty.
 
But he came back on stage a few minutes later all dressed in white singing School's Out.

Rain
I once saw a guy being sentenced to death and decapitated, back in Montreal. True Story.
It wasn't pretty.
 
But he came back on stage a few minutes later all dressed in white singing School's Out.

Welcome to my nightmare.

Rain
I once saw a guy being sentenced to death and decapitated, back in Montreal. True Story.
It wasn't pretty.
 
But he came back on stage a few minutes later all dressed in white singing School's Out.

That gag was designed by none other than magician and JREF founder James "The Amazing" Randi, who also played the part of the executioner onstage.

Thank you for that, Bit - what an awesome web site! :)