If we're going to have the death penalty (which I oppose) why go through the trouble of drugs, needles, etc? I'm pretty sure that the former French method is quick and virtually foolproof assuming the blade is kept sharp.

Oh wait, you're telling me that the State doesn't have the stomach to kill people in a way that actually LOOKS like killing? Hypocrisy at its finest.

I saw a news clip on that and it was shocking what happened. I am 99.5% against the death penalty even if it went smoothly.

What a trip....guy has a heart attack while waiting to be executed......I'm sure he was quite on edge to start with.

So if you oppose the death penalty....three hots and a cot for life then? At what cost to society?

Less than the appeals process of the typical US death sentence, apparently.

Maybe Karma got the perp?

screw it, he's dead. He shot a girl with a shotgun and BURIED HER ALIVE....WGAS how he died? Personally, if the state is struggling with how to execute someone, a .22 or ,380 behind the left ear, up into the cranium works nicely every time.

I heard that the heart attack was after his vein exploded. Yeah three hots and a cot at bare minimum for life. That is maybe not severe enough punishment in some cases but does save taxpayer money on the appeal process.

At least he wasn't given a four way bypass surgery or heart transplant so that he would be in healthy enough condition to be executed.

How about this? Declare a (swampy and malarial) part of the US to be a penal colony. Surround with a 100,000 volt electric fence and anti-aircraft missile batteries. Make it large enough to allow the inhabitants to engage in subsistence farming. If people are convicted of murder or rape, take them to the gates, push them in.

LGBT crew might not like the 'penal' thing.

He may well have been guilty.

Too many others on death row who aren't guilty to morally rationalize the use of the death penalty. Ain't no do overs if you're wrong.

More than 4% of death row inmates wrongly convicted, study says.

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Each prison should have a nice, deep, beautifully landscaped pond with a wharf. At execution time, the condemnend should be led out on the wharf, affixed with weights and tied to the wharf with a rope. After the appropriate salutations and reading of sentence, they should be tossed in. After an appropriate amount of time, retrieve the body and bury it in a potter's field. No real cost except man hours and intial investment of the the drowning pond and equipmwent, which could be used in perpituity. The execution would be quick and relatively painless.

Those stats also mean that around 96% of the people there are guilty

One of the endangered Swampy Malarial rodents may come into contact with that fence and die, can't have that.

Maybe jump into a molecular discomboobilator ?