Hear That Sound? It's Feces Hitting the Fan.

[Occhidiangela]

I think that death should be dealt swiftly and as painlessly as possible... But complaining about a little burning or the prick of a needle just makes you a wussy.
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How to make it painless. Give the felon a drink of water with some sedative mixed in. He'll relax. Ether to put him to sleep. Needle in the vain, after first of course wiping his arm with alcohol to avoid any chance of infection. :rolleyes: Thank you, George Carlin.

Carlin suggested publicly broadcast executions. (OK, it was a stand up routine, perhaps he was being bitterly facetious.)

Expanding on his idea, consider beheadings as a TV Pay Per View event (not as a public TV or public service broadcast) with a split screen displaying pictures of his dead victims. (from the crime scene?) The striking linkage between criminal, crime, and punishment might send a different message than the very solemn procedures outlined in the links kandrathe provided, thanks. :)

Hollywood has depicted such gory scenes, and worse, in murder thrillers for years. As intriguing and ghoulish as this ideas is, I don't think it would sell enough "views paid for" to pay for production costs and make enough money.

(The prospect of corruption, bribery, and other skulldugggery to ensure enough appeals are over turned to provide a large enough supply of execution subjects makes me reject the idea on the grounds of our public officialss capacity for sleaze.)

But I don't think you could sell the business model in any case. I think that the beheading's reality, rather than its being part of a story in a movie, would be disturbing enough to put most people off, while some victim's families would object on the grounds that they have either
a) forgiven the murderer or
B) gotten over the loss of their family member and gotten on with their lives. Dredging it all back up again would probably be a slap to their faces.

"The needle" is humane enough, if one is going to off murderers and other such vermin.

Note the headgear the felon in question is wearing.

Occhi