Shades of Gary Gilmore!
What do you want on your tombstone?
As far as I think, that’s the most humane.
Nitrogen asphyxiation is the solution. It’s painless and works every time. Seal the condemned in a room and pump it full of nitrogen. Wait 15 minutes.
Dead every time. No pharmaceutical products required, just industrial nitrogen.
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Death by musketry.
don’t commit capital murder in Utah!!!
...and it WAS NOT botched. The killer started kicking and screaming while still on the saline solution - they hadn’t even given him the drugs yet. It was a STUNT.
Sounds like a better way to do it.
Injection is done the way it is done to protect the delicate sensibilities of the observers, not the condemned person. There is no way to know if the person being executed feels anything or suffers at all. Putting him to sleep is done so the family and victim’s family won’t have to see any suffering.
So they can call it “humane.”
The firing squad is pretty straightforward. No one has any illusions about what’s happening. Any pain felt is brief. Hard to botch that.
I strongly encourage states to have a firing squad on the books as an “optional” means of execution. Importantly, judges and juries should not have a say in the means of execution, just that a murderer should be executed. It should be left up to the state *how* to execute.
The means of a firing squad are much harder to appeal. It cannot be described as “cruel or unusual”, because both the police and military legally kill people with guns. Nor can any third party intervene to prevent the execution by interfering with the provision of means, such as happens with lethal injection. Firing squads are conducted with ubiquitous means, and any LEO is competent to carry it out.
The bottom line is that an execution can take 20 years to bring about. Just having a firing squad as an option might reduce that to 15 or even 10 years.