[dfwgator]

BTW, has anybody ever stopped to think about how state or federal executioners feel about their jobs, and how it affects them and their families? Can those people ever sleep well? Sure, some cases demand the death penalty, but, what about the people who are tasked with one of the most mind-bending and dehumanizing jobs in the world. In the middle-east, it may be "cultural" and people there think nothing of it, but, we are supposed to be a bit more civilized.

That was actually the reason why the Nazis decided to build the gas chambers. Shooting was considered too inhumane, for the shooters. Gassing the Jews was the more "humane" solution.

[adorno]

I think gassing them was more about striking fear into the hearts of Jews than about being “humane”. After all, Hitler and the Nazis thought of Jews as being mere rats.