[Carl Vehse]

The gallows should be the standard method. With reasonable care and a little rinsing, the rope can be reused numerous times.

[JerryBlackwell]

States should just with hold food and water for the condemned. According to the left it was such a dignified way to die for Terry Schiavo.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Bullets are cheap.

I’d prefer public hanging, but the public is too squeamish for that.

[heterosupremacist]

A sentence of death is intended as a punishment for the convicted. Why would methods even matter? I DO NOT favor the death penalty, but if it is imposed; I believe death by a Military Firing Squad is the most appropriate form of execution. Because it has been used for traitors to our Country, and also if the sentence of death is handed down to a convict, and if someone has to be killed to comply with the Government's rulings - then the executioners should represent the authority of the same Government, as members of the U.S. Defense Forces under authority granted to the Commander in Chief!

[doug from upland]

Fast and essentially painless

[Ken H]

Nitrogen gas or a firing squad (if I were forced to choose). Helium is also an alternative if you want leave on a high note.

[oldplayer]

Merle Haggard was right: “I’m proud to be an Okie . . ..”

We will even use steel bullets instead of lead if the eco/greens want us to.

[I want the USA back]

It works every time. Some will say it’s too brutal. What they mean, is that they don’t like looking at it.

Thinking that injection is painless is an illusion. It is painless only for the onlookers, who fool themselves into thinking that the convict doesn’t suffer.

I’m against the death penalty because I don’t want the government to have the power to kill people openly, but if the death penalty is going to be applied, let it be by firing squad.

[yarddog]

I think if I had to choose my method of execution it would be firing squad.

I remember seeing film of German saboteurs executed during the Battle of the Bulge. It appeared they died instantly.

[Repeal The 17th]

I remember the 1977 execution of Gary Gilmore...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gilmore

[yarddog]

Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were both executed by firing squad in Kansas. That must have been right at the end of using hanging in the U.S.

[Persevero]

I actually think this is the most humane and ironically most similar to biblical stoning. Consider the bullets to be small stones

Were I subject to the death penalty this is what I’d want.

[Thibodeaux]

no lead bullets allowed

[Impy]

There have been problems lately with lethal injections, some company in Europe stopped making one of the drugs and the replacement drug is no good.

I’ve always thought lethal injection was stupid. It’s supposed to be “humane”? Pfft. I love especially how they swab the arm with alcohol first, would want the soon to be dead guy to get an infection. :d

I say just hang em, or shoot em, or (and this is a great idea) don’t actively kill them, just don’t give them any food.