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Ferarri619 posted...

Not when a firing squad is unloading their entire clips.

Some of the people shooting are going to miss, others are potentially going to hit non-vital areas, leaving the convict to slowly bleed out rather than die quickly. It's not really a guaranteed instant-kill or painless way to die any more than other methods are.

(Not to mention the psychological issues involved with having a firing squad actively killing people. Which is why various solutions have been used in the past, like giving some of the shooters blanks, so they can potentially absolve their own guilt by assuming their bullet wasn't the one that killed them.)

If you're really looking for a humane execution method, might as well go back to the guillotine. It's literally why it was invented in the first place (even if it was later abused).



Ferarri619 posted...

method of doing it.
Lethal injection has made prisoners suffer for hours because of botched attempts, some even going as far as jamming tons of injections in and prisoner still not dying.

That's a problem with methodology, not the act itself. It wouldn't be that difficult at all to anesthetize someone so they just slowly go to sleep, then load them full of the killing chemicals. Then it wouldn't matter how much pain the injections cause or how long they take to work (or even if you miss the vein or cause an embolism), because they won't feel it.

For that matter, the same would apply for every other execution method. Knock someone out, then gas them. Or put them in a vacuum chamber so they suffocate. Or just put them on a pure nitrogen mask or in a nitrogen chamber (which functionally suffocates you, but without the sensation of suffocation because that doesn't come from the lack of oxygen as much as from the build up of carbon dioxide). If you're unconscious when the actual execution method kicks in, you're not really going to feel it.

The only problem there is the people who are allergic to anesthesia. But even then there are probably alternatives you can come up with to provide an alternative means of knocking someone out that doesn't trigger their allergy.