I for one disapprove of regularly mixing organ transplant and execution. “Jury, as you consider the evidence, keep in mind that every criminal sentenced to the death penalty saves the lives of three innocent and upstanding citizens. Mind you, that has nothing to do with the determination of guilt. Nothing at all…”
Regardless, pick your goals first and the method after:
Dead, cheaply: bullet to the back of the head “execution style”
Dead, cheaply and not so messily: gas 'em with something fatal, be it cyanide or CO2.
Dead, cheaply and theatrically and you want their organs: beheading
Dead, cheaply and vengefully and messily: steamroller, slowly, feet-first.
Dead, ineffectively: lethal injection by amateurs
When you know what you want, it’s easy to choose a method.
Bah! It comes back to they could use more effective drugs and techniques if they really wanted to. I often suspect the authorities who legislate the types of drugs used and other details don’t really care to put enough thought into it. The bottom line is there’s no reason an execution cannot be conducted quickly and efficiently. Hand-wringing while saying, “Oh dear me, doctors and nurses cannot ethically participate, so there’s no way this can be done,” just don’t wash.
That’s not really what I was going for… sorry if I gave that impression. My goal is to get them good and dead and still retain organs for transplant. Causing the condemned to suffer some pain is a nice side effect for some (including myself, if I’m being honest), but not a requirement, which is why I included other, less painful methods in my first post in this thread.
Hadn’t thought of this… not sure how to solve this particular dilemma, but I wouldn’t propose that this link should be widely publicised or acknowledged. I wouldn’t think the general public would care much, anyway, would they? Does the average person often ponder the donor organ supply?
Regardless, I am dubious about the idea of systematically (or automatically, against their will?) looting criminals for their organs, in large part because I feel that there’s a distinction between deciding that you have the right to kill someone and the right to despoil their corpse. But that’s just me - I think the average’s person’s response to the extraction of organs from criminals would be, “wait, you want to give me the heart of a serial killer? Ew, that’d make me into a psycho!”
