Even a dullard could have chambered a round and blown his brain out, most painlessly, in no more than what? 20 seconds?
A lot cheaper, too!
You’re putting the guy to death, how pleasant can you make it for him?
43-44 years AFTER he murdered his 21 year old victim before he was executed??? That’s an obscenity!!!
Public stoning was the normative
Biblical means of capital punishment (at the mouth of 2 or 3 eye witnesses) versus antiseptic executions by the state. The former corresponds to crime being against the community in general, and provides a better sense of justice, as well as of the reality of the gravity of capital crimes (and of false testimony), thus better serving as a deterrent, while the latter is another example of over reliance upon the government to deal with tasks.