The problem is that states are unable to procure the preferred drug that
completely anesthetizes the condemned prisoner, so that the effects of the
two different poisons that paralyze the breathing and stop the heart of the
condemned are not visible to an observer. And that IS the problem, for if
any form of capital punishment is to be considered acceptable, it MUST
leave a peaceful looking corpse that won't offend the sensibilities of the
social and political elitists who typically comprise most of the witnesses
to executions nowadays.
Otherwise the guillotine would be the most humane and cost effective means
of capital punishment. For on a regulation built guillotine the 85 pound
blade assembly is dropped on the condemned prisoner's neck from a height of
seven and a half feet; so even if the blade was dull as a spoon, the force
of the blow would still separate the condemned person's head from his body
in an instant. But again, that does not make for a peaceful looking corpse,
does it?
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