What do you think is the least painful method of execution??? You would think lethal injection but all ur organs shutting down one by one has to be torture even if it is quick.

2nd part question . . .
you think people on death row should be able to choose how they die?

I couldn't say. One could argue a quick bullet through the head might be the least painful. Only somebody who's been executed could tell you.

I honestly am not very concerned with giving them the least painful method and I am not going to let them choose it.

I think a firing squad would be because that guy they executed in Utah, there were four men but only one live round and it got him right in the chest and killed him I do believe instantly. Anything else will linger, hanging can take a few minutes, electric chair is about 30 seconds before you're unconscious, another minute or so before you're actually dead and during that your skin can catch on fire and your eyes can explode out your head.

Lethal injection if done right and they could knock them out first as in prepping for surgery.

IDK what all the production is with the execution process, but I have held dogs being euthanized and the doc gave just one shot of the phenobarbitol with poison and the dog just died, quickly and quietly within seconds.

I really don't know enough about the death penalty. Canada hasn't had it since the sixties. Would you die instantly from a firing squad? Wouldn't it take a few seconds, at least? I read somewhere that someone was accidentally given one of the drugs used in lethal injection - apparently there are three different ones - and he said it burned like fire in his veins.

Lethal interjection is the least painful if they allow it to be. From what I understand, there are two injections: the first one puts the inmate to sleep, they may feel a burning sensation as the injection starts to go through the body but it's not painful, and the second injection stops the heart from beating.

Okay - maybe. Someone told me there's one that paralyzes you, one that puts you to sleep and then one that actually kills you.

I think the lethal injection is or at least it should be.....but I've heard reports that it isn't. And I don't think death row inmates should choose how they want to die. They weren't given the choice to die so why should they be given the choice on how? It's a little fucked up IMO. I'm against the death penalty anyway.

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I think the lethal injection is or at least it should be.....but I've heard reports that it isn't. And I don't think death row inmates should choose how they want to die. They weren't given the choice to die so why should they be given the choice on how? It's a little fucked up IMO. I'm against the death penalty anyway.

I also heard that lethal injection isn't that peaceful a way to go as it may seem. I didn't know death row inmates got to pick how they die.

Old age would probably be the least painful in most cases. If they wanted to be more "humane" about it, they could fore go all the drama leading up to it. Let the condemned think the execution was the next morning and pump some CIA-type nerve gas into their air tight cell the night before. I know. It'll never happen.

Of the 5 common methods still used (from least painful to most painful):

1. Lethal Injection
2. Firing Squad
3. Hanging
4. Gas Chamber
5. Electric Chair