Condemned inmate croaks right before execution. What to do.

[septimus]

@Grey

If the death penalty is to exact revenge, by the state, on the condemned to assuage the damage done by their criminal acts then yeah, you have to revive them to kill them.

@dolphinboy

It would be cruel and inhumane to let someone who has just had a heart attack die a slow agonizing death just because they are on death row when they could possibly be revived and killed humanely later on.

Until society decides whether executions are intended to be painful revenge or humane eliminations, it should avoid them altogether.