Firing squads can miss. Hanging actually requires careful mathemateics to ensure you quickly break the condemned's knock without decapitating him.
The guillotine was one of the few inventions the French got right. Quick, painless, physician not needed to determine death has occurred.
I think too, a few people have survived hangings.
I think it might have been old West justice, if you survived a hanging, you were free to go.
Not if you give all the shooters several rounds and semi-auto rifles. Hanging actually requires careful mathemateics to ensure you quickly break the condemned's knock without decapitating him.
Hell with that, just kick the chair out from under them and walk away.
Shotgun blast at the base of the skull upwards into the brainpan. Guaranteed instant death.
Thanks for the laugh, I needed it.