In the name of mercy or whatever we are making this harder than it needs to be.
Heroin, hanging, firing squad, electrocution, cyanide, drowning, all work.
This idea that it should be absolutely painless is absurd. The goal is a dead perpetrator of a heinous crime.
The goal of painless is to prevent executions by those who oppose capital punishment.
You found me out, alright. :)
I used to be FOR the death penalty, until I realized that if I couldn’t be the executioner all by my very own self (and I couldn’t) then I could hardly justify being FOR it, just because my taxes paid someone else to do the nasty deed for me, in my place. That would make me a coward.
Many say they could be, so I don’t criticise them and they are not cowards, but I was. %)