We need a return to the firing squad or to public hangings. Or maybe beheading. Lethal injection is a copout. Killing is violent. I despise that we always try to sanitize it. It's a dishonest attempt to make the forcible taking of another life clean, neat and non-violent. If we want to make it painless, how about anesthesia, followed by hanging the inmate upside down and cutting his carotid artery. He would die in seconds and feel nothing. Oh, but the blood! We can't handle the blood! We love to pretend that by injecting toxic chemicals into a person so that they can't speak, move, or writhe in pain is a non-violent extinguishing of life, rather than a state-sponsored murder (which is what it actually is). I think that there's an argument to be made in favor of the death penalty, but I can't abide the way in which we employ it. There's no such thing as a humane death penalty. I think we would use it a lot more appropriately if we had to face the reality of what it means to kill someone.