[mvpel]

...that the lethal injection method is too sanitized.

So it's about vengence after all, rather than the State simply taking the life of a presumed criminal?

[Wolfstar]

No, it's about justice and punishment that fits the crime. Some crimes are so egregious that only an equally egregious punishment would constitute justice. Xthe17th's premise that lethal injection is nothing more than euthanasia is correct, in my opinion.