What's up with US executions?

So, since Europe stopped selling execution chemicals to the US, they've been having problems making people dead in states that have the lethal injection.

What I don't get is why states with the death penalty don't just use cyanide, firing squads, guillotines, or any other method that guarantees a quicker death?

Is it purely for aesthetic reasons?

Is extended suffering that is not obvious to the observer thought of as better than a short amount of suffering that visibly damages the body, or causes extreme convultions and the like?

I really don't get it

 

I don't get it either, personally i'd prefer firing squad.

Baza

 

Me too.

Hell, I'd prefer being drowned to the gas chamber or lethal injection!

 

It's a topic that has been in the media lately.

Honestly I would prefer we shoot people in the head. Or hell, use the rod device we use to kill cattle. There really shouldn't be any suffering for a person you're going to kill.

I would rather see us do away with the death penalty though, since one mistake is too many in my opinion.

 

I think they should use death by mau mau.

 

At this point though you are merely a spiritual observer and not caring that the bullets that killed you had to be paid for lol.

Baza

 

Haha!

I think that might come under the banner of "cruel or unusual"

 

What about a lethal heroin or morphine injection?

Seems much simpler than fannying around with esoteric chemicals that don't always work so well.

 

I think this too.

But if you're going to have it, why turn it into such a rigmarole?

 

I think you'll find death by mau mau is both cruel AND unusual.

 

Death by "snoo snoo" is my choice.

 

Even if the legal injection takes hours to work, the convict is still unconscious. It is by far the most humane method of execution. It's still a long way from civilised though.

 

The States are becoming the one place where it is assured that a hopelessly complicated, bureaucratic nightmare will be made of anything

 

Too many agencies stepping on each other's turfs with scheduled items such as skag and whatnot.

 

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You don't need to be conscious to be decapitated, shot, or injected with heroin/morphine/cyanide.

The "lethal" bit has nothing to do with the "conscious" bit.

 

I just found out your country doesn't prescribe heroin. For shame. It works better at lower doses than morphine. Which makes it better for palliative care.