That is why the Guillotine was invented, a quick and humaine way to excecute criminals. The French Revolution made it into a dramatic and public terror insturment.
and it gives you a great opportunity to mouth the last words of the Lord's Prayer after your head is chopped off...
If I had the ability to choose the way I would go out, I would choose the John Garfield/Nelson Rockefeller way....heart attack during orgasm while making love to a beautiful woman. Either that or drinking a fifth of Crown Royal, renting a Ferrarri, and slamming it into a wall at about 150 mph.
I believe there are defintely people that society has to eliminate because their biochemical/psycological disfunction makes them a danger to the general population. But I don't think there should be any cruelty or retribution involved. Even the ritual of "deadman walking" on the way to a lethal injection causes way too much anxiety. We could just take the intened victim and put him in a cell with one big pile of Cocaine and one big pile of Heroin and say " OK bye bye, have fun" As for me, I would rather have someone sneek up behind me and shoot me in the head. I bet you never even know anything happened. Jeep
