Bring back public hangings.
Even a badly botched hanging will only take 30 minutes or so . . . or produce a gory decapitation.
So we have lots of public witnesses when years later we found out we hung the wrong guy?
Execution day is Friday. You get picked for the morning shift, or the afternoon shift (4 hours each).
Televised on channel 11.
You're issued a rifle and a box of bullets when your shift starts.
A recitation of the perp's crimes, in full technicolor. Then bang!
Five minutes to cart off the old one, and strap in the new one, and do it all again.
Relatives of rape/murder/child abuse victims get special priority, if they show up and request it, they get to replace one of the executioners.
If there's not enough work for 4 hours, you go home early.
I love westerns. In one, it said people came from 100 miles to see a hanging. There was not much to see/do in the Old West. William W. Johnstone was one of the best western writers.
Easy way to solve the problem, feed them to starving lions.
It’s a win win, lions get feed and we save on buying meat.
seriously.
when done correctly its painless and clean and requires no unusual medical apparatus or involvement - just an MD to prounounce.