[CorporateStepsister]

These killers wouldn’t be suffering like this if they hadn’t murdered an innocent person and ended up causing so much more pain to the victim than the murderer ‘suffered’ during their much cleaner execution.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Hanging works fine. Even when it goes wrong it still works.

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[BuckeyeTexan]

He argues that America has made its executions bloodless to protect the sensibilities of those who support the death penalty,

He's delusional. My sensibilities wouldn't be offended by bloody executions. Bloody executions might actually cause those murderers to think twice before killing an innocent.

We've made our executions bloodless to protect the delicate sensibilities of the bleeding-heart liberals who care more about the rights of the violent thugs than the murdered innocents.

[BuckeyeTexan]

I imagine support for the death penalty would decline rather quickly once heads started rolling.

Well, you imagine wrong, chump.

[JSDude1]

NO-has this author or yourself actually read The Book of Revelations?

Don’t you think that a corrupt government could easily use this on Christians, Conservatives and others..??

[dalereed]

Use a laser instead of a blade and it will seer the edges so there is no mess to clean up!!!!

[wardaddy]

The author is no reactionary if he writes for The Atlantic and opposes death penalty

[dennisw]

Televised guillitine executions would make a good point to the riff-raff.

How about pay per view

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Execution by guillotine is not instantaneous. There have been many observed instances where the head has still been conscious for several seconds afterwards. A shotgun to the back of the head straight through the brain stem and cerrubellum provide instant death, but would be extremely messy, and eventually turn the executioner into a complete head case.