I have always been a proponent of capital punishment, restricted to the most heinous of crimes the names of which I won't list here but I'm sure you can make your own. It's the method that I can't decide. I've often stated - even on this forum - that paedophiles should be hanged as I like the idea of re-using the hemp rope for the next sicko. You know, reduce, re-use, recycle. But hanging has issues with drop-length-to-weight ratio amongst other things when the condemned can slowly strangled (too short) or decapitated (too long). Firing Squad: you need people willing to do it; and, as the article states: people miss. Decapitation: bit messy, innit? Lethal Injection: finding a qualified person not bound by the Hippocratic Oath to "first do no harm" alongside the current issue of sourcing the chemicals required makes this harder. Gas Chamber: I find this personally close to torture. As are: Stoning, Drowning, Beating, and Emtombing. I do have an option which, no doubt, will probably have its own objectors based on medical knowledge I don't possess: how about you just give the condemned a general anaesthetic and then turn off the oxygen or suck it out of the room - like a reverses gas chamber? Rig them up with the ventilator and whatever else is used, administer the anaesthetic and when the anaesthetist is sure the condemned is under, turn off the ventilator and/suck the oxygen out of the room. I mean, we don't breathe on our own while under GA anyway.
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