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Re: the title of this thread.
Executions are ment to be nasty, they show to others that if you kill directly or indirectly and found guilty. Then in accordence to the law of the country your in you may be sentenced to death by whatever means deemed by the law.

Do people honestly think that its ok for person "A" to kill (because it is predominantly killing that gets a death sentence) someone and get a life sentence doing a "cushy number" at the expense of the people?

An eye for an eye IMO.
Does it matter if its painful? Does it matter if there is any distress for the person being executed? it doesnt matter, because for those last fleeting moments that person who is being injected, electrocuted or hung will feel only a tiny bit of what the family, friends and loved ones felt at the loss of the person who person "A" took the life of.

Hang em, Hang em long and Hang em high. Thats my opinion.