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On a side note this is not the first time lethal injection has taken an unacceptable amount of time to gain the end result. It should be abolished and we should go back to hanging.

I'm in agreement with this. It has many advantages.

1) There is no need for a bizarre drug cocktail that the supplier might decide to stop supplying. Rope is simple and easy.

2) It's effective. Done correctly, it severs the spinal cord and precludes any unnecessary suffering, satisfying the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

3) I think this is the most important one. Lethal Injection is used because it's easier for spectators to watch. Execution should not be sugar coated for the public. The voters have determined that this is a part of our justice system, and it should be viewable by the public in such a way that you can't pretend it's not happening. Hanging is violent, as it should be. This will force people to think about the subject more and make informed decisions about when to use it.

"Rope is simple and easy." Hanging is a great deal trickier than it looks. Get the condemned person's weight wrong, or have an idiot for a hangman, and you've got yourself a little horror show of snapping ropes, throats beings torn out, and heads popping clean off. Read up on the Nuremberg prison hangings, and you'll learn about events to make a buzzard puke. Herman Goring didn't poison himself because he was afraid to die; turns out, the hangman was an inept idiot, everyone knew it, and cyanide was a blessing.