Have gun... 
will travel!
I don’t see a problem with hanging.
Firing squad or hanging would suffice for me. Serial killers, rapists, and pedophiles should get hanging: more of an opportunity for them to suffer. Give the “regular murderers” the firing squad. It’s instant and under no circumstances could I think it would ever be considered cruel and/or unusual.
Whazzamatter?
No more rope?
The constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
It does not guarantee a painless execution.
OTOH, I'm not as confident about FedGuv getting much say in criminal justice as I used to be.
What method did the founding fathers use to execute criminals?
If it was being used when the constitution was written then the founding fathers did not find it “cruel or unusual”.
I am not a constitutional scholar but I believe I understand the intent of the founding fathers. They were not against capital punishment, they were against torture.
To stretch the phrase “cruel or unusual” to mean the condemned criminal should die painlessly is a travesty and certainly a misinterpretation of the constitution.
Have gun... will travel!
What’s wrong with strapping the guilty party down like he was going to receive a lethal injection and then just having the executioner fire a bullet into his brain?
Lethal lead injection. A firing squad is too iffy. If the shooters don’t finish him off, then the guy in charge has to deliver the brain shot anyway.
The states should ask the drug companies for the same drugs being used in places like Belgium and Holland for euthanasia. Belgium is considering officially approving euthanasia for children (being done on the qt already) , surely those drugs would be painless enough for serial killers and such.
If I had a choice for execution a firing squad would do just fine. At most a few scant seconds if that of pain and then adios... Forget the injection crap although its less messy.
The death sentence should be as easy to get as welfare for those wneed it.
Impalement on the public square.
Publicize this ad much as their deed.
Really make them famous.
Yup...about the only thing the muzzie filth get right...
Though I prefer a guillotine...quicker, cleaner and hard to miss...but a bit messy : )
Nitrogen gas is in plentiful supply, and you don’t need the permission of a pharmaceutical company to get it. And nitrogen asphyxiation is completely painless.
Hang em. John Wayne said in a movie once about hanging. I forget the exact words. I think “grizzly” was in the statement. But, something along those lines gets peoples attention. Just laying on a table and going to sleep is nothing like suddenly feeling the floor drop out from under you and knowing in the next flick of light you are dead.
The Chinese keep it simple. They fire a bullet at point blank range into the back of the brain of the condemned and then bill his family for the cost of the bullet.
I find it amazing that people haven’t gone with an obvious solution. I read about this method a long time ago.
You use a gas chamber where the gas is pure nitrogen. The condemned would just eventually nod off and die. No muss, no fuss. Nitrogen is also plenty cheap.
The only reason asphyxiation is unpleasant in a confined space is that your body reacts negatively to high concentrations of CO2. You body is utterly indifferent to nitrogen since most of the atmosphere is already composed of it.
Now I imagine this wouldn’t satisfy the more bloodthirsty types who want the scum to suffer, but personally I don’t give a damn if they suffer or not. I want their oxygen consumption over and have them placed on the correct side of the grass. The nitrogen method would have the advantage of being quite peaceful and mild, and thus there wouldn’t be harsh images to be used as propaganda for the anti-capital punishment side.
Scarce Drugs? What’s wrong with Drano?
My first reaction to this headline is that in the not too distant future, the State will execute Tea Party members by firing squad; the Tea Party having been by then deemed a terrorist group.
The shortage of such drugs is artificial, as a result of liberal pressure on drug companies, and (I don’t doubt) subtle pressure from bureaucrats in league with the anti-death-penalty movement.
But there really is no shortage. It is easy to administer a lethal does of ordinary, humane anesthesia — drugs which many of us have experienced ourselves in surgery.
I am NOT in favor of public executions. But I am in favor of speedy justice. There is no reason why an unsuccessful, frivolous appeal should take 15 years to adjudicate. This makes a total joke of any justice.
Always remember that one of the primary reasons for a justice system, going back to the time of Noah, was to deter revenge killings and perpetual vendettas. We are very close to the stage where the only justice in some of these case is familial revenge.
The advantage of letting the state take over the revenge function is to relieve the victims of an onerous act which could cause them still more grief, and harm social order.
Letting condemned criminals have family, friends, and confused supporters watch is silly. They should have no rights to be present.
The Constitution says that punishments should not be cruel and unusual. There was nothing unusual about capital punishment in the 18th Century, or all through history. It is not cruel unless intentionally causing excessive pain. A few reflex movements by the corpse do not indicate pain. If this offends some people, then they should allow use of the better drugs, which they have intentionally been blocking.
I have been present for the euthanasia of a beloved pet. It was so gentle, that it was difficult to tell when the animal had actually expired. There are easy drugs available. Some are even “recreational,” and are probably on the list of those to be made legal when the marijuana movement really gets going.
Revenge is a legitimate response at some times. It is exercised to punish, and to eliminate a PROVEN THREAT. It is reasonable to make revenge a function of disinterested courts. Courts are commanded in the Bible, just for this reason.
Eliminating capital punishment does not solve any problem, but just leaves justice up in the air. It is a very dangerous illusion to suppose that this would be progress.