I am a death penalty advocate. In fact, I might even be a maximalist in terms of making it an eligible penalty for more crimes. But the overly clinical, medically sanitized nature of modern capital punishment is a mistake and, in some shape or form, even more deceptively cruel because it attempts to mask what the state is justly doing—killing. Bring back what is efficient and works: hanging and firing squads.
There was a grim dignity to the "You are to be hung by the neck until dead, may God have mercy on your soul" way of doing things. Just saying.