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Being drawn and quartered or golden bulled sounds like one of the worse ideas.
Hanging, rifle line, and the guillotine are slightly better as they’re less violent and more ‘matter of fact’.
A multi-drug cocktail sounds like one of the most humane methods, medicinally and painlessly ending a life. Sadly they’ve fucked up even that by not doing it properly.
The problem is you can't get any actual doctors to help make it medically sound on account of that whole "do no harm" thing they're supposed to uphold, so you end up with quacks that use a functionally random set of drugs that make it appear to the crowd as a painless way to die when in actuality its one of the most brutally painful possible ways to die.
Death can be a freedom from harm, ex. Euthanasia.
So if they were going to die anyway, a doctor could rationalise it as helping them have the least suffering.
Multi drug cocktail SOUNDS human but it introduces too much room for error.
If you must use a drug, use a single massive dose of barbiturate (sedative and sleep inducing drug) such as pentobarbital. That's both a sedative and central nervous system depressant, so it puts you to sleep then stops your heart and breathing. There's no chance to fuck it up- if you give too little of it the person doesn't die and instead eventually wakes up. If you give too much of it they die more quickly. So the easy answer is just figure out what the lethal dose is and give the person 10x that much.
Such a protocol is often used to euthanize sick pets, and it's sometimes used for medically assisted suicide.
Once again, fucked up that dogs and cats get a better death than humans.
Yeah sure there are worse ideas, i just put the drug cocktail on the same level.
I don't think there is any humane method anyway and i think we should not even consider anything less than that. But that's not how it works in reality sadly.
The issue with things like hanging is that there's more room for political abuse because it's so theatrical. Even if a lethal injection took place in a town square, it would have nowhere near the same capacity for terrorism and suppressing dissent.