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All methods of execution are pretty cheap, a lethal injection costs less than $200, the electricity used for the electric chair is probably less than a light bulb being on for a few hours, the cyanide is pretty cheap for gas chambers, rope is cheap, a bullet is cheap, etc.
Capital punishment is expensive because of the appeals system and other legal requirements that at least in theory try to make it less likely an innocent is executed.
True true... but with gallows you can have a platform as long as you want... with as many nooses as you want. Slip the nooses around their heads, pull lever, release noose, reset gallows, slip nooses around their heads, pull lever... Have a conveyor belt under the gallows to transport the bodies to a location... I could have death row cleaned out in 30 minutes.
People seem to think that "cruel and unusual" should be highly debatable. Lets keep in mind that the firing squad and hanging were used for capital punishment as a normal choice when the terms "cruel and unusual" were written on the matter.
Whats the best method? Not sure, I think the person getting executed should get multiple choice though.
What are acceptable methods? Hanging, firing squad, lethal injection, gas chamber.
Any method that involves a large amount of suffering and pain (physical and mental for best results) as to give an example to others to NOT do this.
2. What methods do you think are acceptable constitutionally?
Hanging, stoning, lethal injection (minus numbing agents) such as rat poison, gas chamber, electrocution, firing squad
3. What methods do you think are right to use (may be either broader or more narrow than your answer to 2)?
Right to the American public? Anything that is cheap to administer, doesn't take too long, and is a hopeful deterrent so that other criminals do not attempt it. Right to the person? I don't care. They're a criminal who's committed such a heinous crime as to deserve capital punishment.
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Now now.. thats a little extreme, unless you let the victims family do it.
