following the botched execution -- what should be the way to execute some one?

[JackRiddler]

94. This thread should be swamped by capital punishment abolitionists.

The assumption that "we have to have death penalty" is an irresolvable problem in your logic.

To grant you that assumption leads us to your entirely irrelevant question: How should the state kill someone over whom it has total power? It's like asking, even though I am not compelled to do a wrong thing, how should I do a wrong thing in a fashion that makes me feel better about myself, and thus makes it easier for me to do the wrong thing?

The only answer should ever be: don't do the wrong thing and don't think there is a way to do the wrong thing that somehow makes it less wrong.

Now the usual ways historically have been shooting or hanging. Shooting is quick and does away with the moronic and hypocritical pretenses that there is a humanitarian way to kill someone. It's certainly what I'd demand, if I were to be the judicial murderee.