I think the death penalty shouldn't exist, but I find this fascination with all these Rube Goldberg style execution methods strange. Gas chambers, lethal injections, electrocution, and whatnot.
If you're going to execute somebody, just put them up against a wall and shoot them, FFS. A firing squad has the benefit of being quite certain (accounts of botched executions are quite horrifying, IMHO), and cheap (prison guards already have guns and ammo, no need to procure and maintain some special execution apparatus).
If you're going to execute somebody, just put them up against a wall and shoot them, FFS. A firing squad has the benefit of being quite certain (accounts of botched executions are quite horrifying, IMHO), and cheap (prison guards already have guns and ammo, no need to procure and maintain some special execution apparatus).