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I'm a firm believer that death is too good for such people. Death IMO is a release from suffering. Let the murderers, rapists, and molesters rot in a cell.
That said, if you're going to insist on a humane death for these monsters, they should switch to hypoxia from breathing pure nitrogen. The injection system is too unreliable. Otherwise if you want it to hurt, just go back to beheading or something and just be honest about being a bloodthirsty bastard.
Georgia (I think) executed a prisoner recently and it took six minutes to get the IVs placed. That's just cruel.
The problem is there are extra requirements to make it look clean and fancy to witnesses while also being somewhat humane. Just snapping the neck is probably the most humane, but it looks a bit violent to witnesses.
There was a bit of an ethics issue a few years ago about this among engineers. The guy who designed and serviced nearly all the execution machines in the US died and he had a PE.
Supposed to protect the public. Are prisoners part of the public? No? Ok guess jails can just collapse in that case. Yes? Ok why are we allowing our ranks to help kill them?
Ultimately nothing changed because PE boards protect their own.