[Captain Rhino]

All this concern about extended physical pain for the condemned criminal makes me wonder if the guillotine isn't such a bad method of execution after all. It was designed by a physician to be painless, wasn't it? If there was any objection by attorneys to the unconstitutionality of the momentary pain caused by the blade edge slicing through the prisioner's neck, you could always just drug them into complete unconsciousness before placing on the body board.

Of course, in my perfect world, the condemned would spend the night before execution with the sharpened blade visible on an upright trolley parked just outside his (or her) cell, You know, to permit them to concentrate on their coming rendezvous with death and the crimes that brought them to this pass.

[cyclotic]

Sharpened blade? You bleeding heart liberal. Park the blade outside the cell door with the black clad executioner dulling the blade all night with a file.