Originally Posted by chilcutt

'Silent kill' part not making sense.
If this pain you are experiencing is like you describe..it would sound more logical that someone being stabbed in a kidney would cry out in pain.
Unless of course a hand is placed over their mouth, stifling the scream.
Then again, a human has 2 kidneys, just because 1 its inoperative shouldn't necessarily mean the person will die.
Real life is not like a Hollyweird movie, where a person is shot or stabbed and they suddenly fall down and are dead.
Real death comes slowly, and agonizingly.

I would think that slitting the throat, and letting the subject bleed-out, would be a more efficient-almost guaranteed- form of execution.