The drugs used in lethal injections are becoming very difficult to obtain in the US, and as a result states are more and more turning to “experimental” and illicitly obtained drugs. To add to this, there have been problems with the previously used three-drug cocktail when it was not injected properly, causing inmates to suffer prolonged and horrific deaths, or sometimes not die at all – just suffer.

On the other hand, the guillotine is quick, painless and 100% effective. Isn’t that everything an execution should be?

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