taiwanese death penalty involves knockout with barbiturate and then shooting, it sounds like it would be hard to fuck up (especially for americans), prisoner is not conscious, but it would require giving up all these theatrics and pretense of subtlety
Issue with that is finding mentally healthy volunteers that won’t be traumatized by being the executioner. Even in cases where they used multiple executioners, with one of them randomly and blindly using a dummy round for plausible deniability, it scars them.
Imagine finding out years later that you participated in the firing squad for an innocent convict. What would that do to you? Would the 1 in 7 chance you technically didn’t kill the person be enough to assuage your guilt?
taiwanese death penalty involves knockout with barbiturate and then shooting, it sounds like it would be hard to fuck up (especially for americans), prisoner is not conscious, but it would require giving up all these theatrics and pretense of subtlety
Issue with that is finding mentally healthy volunteers that won’t be traumatized by being the executioner. Even in cases where they used multiple executioners, with one of them randomly and blindly using a dummy round for plausible deniability, it scars them.
Imagine finding out years later that you participated in the firing squad for an innocent convict. What would that do to you? Would the 1 in 7 chance you technically didn’t kill the person be enough to assuage your guilt?