# How might the Electric Chair be modernized?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 24, 2014, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-might-the-electric-chair-be-modernized/689152 "2014-05-24T04:43:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-might-the-electric-chair-be-modernized/689152/66 "2014-05-26T23:51:56Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> For the same reason that one of the rifles in a firing squad is loaded with a blank.
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> Personally, I wouldn’t care. I would have no problem being the button pusher, and I don’t think that anyone on your list would, either.

Even professional soldiers can suffer emotional trauma from killing another human being. My ex-employer is a former British SAS soldier who still has nightmares from having killed one of the enemy.

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