Soldato
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Obviously if we're talking state-sanctioned death penalties, we'd not be talking about untrained doctors using black market drugs or anything. It'd be rare enough(in my ideal situation) that there wouldn't exactly need to be a plethora of stock or willing doctors needed.
"When done correctly" - you mean in perfect situations.
There is no 100% sure way to know whether the neck will break on falling, or whether a shot is going to definitely kill somebody, even at near point blank, pointed directly at the brain. People survive all kinds of crazy gunshots.
Either way, my point still stands - none of these are humane. They are spectacle. There are far better ways of doing it that dont involve decades, or centuries old barbarism.
Horizon did a very good documentary on this.
The majority of miraculous gunshot survival stories tend to be low power weapons like pistols, nobody's surviving a direct .308 to the head point blank, the hydro shock would turn your brain to mush instantly.
Asphyxiation by noble gas is supposedly a good way to go, no build up of carbon dioxide in the blood so you die in a hazy euphoria unaware of any choking reflex.
Hanging was a tricky method, as the long drop to break the neck and cause unconciousness is hard to acheive, and going too far can pull the head off.
Tbh of all the methods gas or high powered gunshot is the best way to go, although one might argue that a quick and painless death for a murder is inhumane to his victims who wouldnt have had that luxury.