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U.S. 9th Circuit Court Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, who is not theoretically opposed to capital punishment, thinks lethal injection is torture and is in favor of the guillotine or firing squad as swift, honest punishment. "Using drugs meant for individuals with medical needs to carry out executions is a misguided effort to mask the brutality of executions by making them look serene and beautiful — like something any one of us might experience in our final moments... But executions are, in fact, brutal, savage events, and nothing the state tries to do can mask that reality. Nor should we. If we as a society want to carry out executions, we should be willing to face the fact that the state is committing a horrendous brutality on our behalf."