Akhenaten Akhenaten:
Can someone please remind me: what was wrong with a firing squad?
How was that supposed to be more barbaric than electrocution?
With a firing squad the members of the squad sometimes mutually agreed to put their shots up and to the left of the heart, right into the breast bone, which then merely bruised the heart and concussed the lungs. Death then became a painful and lingering affair.
And, depending on the crimes of the accused, justice may well have been done.
I guess I find myself inable to summon any compassion for some of those beasts who currently reside in America's death rows. That so much effort is given to concerning society about being humane to the inhumane is abhorrent to me.