Heck, just set up a timer to go off at midnight per the Standard Time signal.
Now that we’re in Opinions, I can add that I would NOT want the job given to someone who eagerly looks forward to it, and people who want gruesome and painful for its own sake are disturbing; but if “decent” folk are so queasy about being the one whose hand delivers the death strike, or about seeing/smelling what it’s like for a man to be killed in our name, or about cleaning up afterwards, maybe we should not be ordering it done.
Social media campaigns. Provide live updates on the execution on Twitter, put the video on Youtube. Hold a lottery that gives you a chance to be the executioner if you “like” the event on Facebook.
Let the chair be operated wirelessly through an iPad app rather than a manual switch. Leave the prisoner one free arm so he can take selfies with a Samsung phone as long as he can during the execution.
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.
Why not just use the captive bolt gun a-la “No Country for Old Men” and slaughterhouses the world over? It’s reusable (cheaper in the long run, if you’re somewhere like Texas) and you can probably set the depth, so that the bullet doesn’t come flying out the front.
I kind of like the idea of an explosive lens implosion. If it’s enough to compress a pit of uranium or plutonium hard enough and fast enough to make it supercritical, it’ll certainly be fast enough to kill a prisoner before his nervous system can react.
Plus, if you’re lucky, there’s just a pellet of remains left.
Considering that lightning doesn’t always work I don’t know how anyone can justify its use as it seems to fall under cruel and unusual punishment, It’s something that may kill you right away or cause intense pain, rinse and repeat.
It depends. You don’t want to have to hear the guards say,
“Hey. Nothing happened?”
“What’s wrong…?”
“Awww… this is North Korea! These tests Never work.”
“Say, you’re right. OK, take them back to their cells…”
“Can’t. The prison collapsed last night…”
“You know, if we’d left them there, we wouldn’t have had to worry about this. Think its worth suggesting?”
“Execution by crappy building construction? Has that ever been done…?”
"Only in the US. There’s a saying… ‘Mudslides wipe out all my sins, but not my bank accounts…’ " both laugh