[ladyrustic]

Just strap the condemned in a chair and drop a big rock on his head from twenty feet up.

Or a bullet to back of head when not expecting it- even more humane...

[monday]

"Just strap the condemned in a chair and drop a big rock on his head from twenty feet up.

Or a bullet to back of head when not expecting it- even more humane..."

I agree that it is more humane for the executed, but it wouldn't be very humane for the executioner or the witnesses. Lethal injection is chosen as much because it is least likely to provide executioners and witnesses with the ugly twitching, whimpering, blood and gore, of human death, as it is because it is humane for the executed. Bullets or rocks to the head are pretty bloody and messy.