What Is the Quickest Way to Be Executed?

Proponents say firing squad is the quickest way to execute someone in an era of prolonged lethal injections.

What is the most humane way to execute?

Of all the many and varied types of execution – electrocution, hanging, shooting, gassing, stoning – lethal injection has emerged as the new method of choice for some because of its allegedly humane qualities.

Is the electric chair painful?

Possibility of consciousness and pain during execution

Witness testimony, botched electrocutions (see Willie Francis and Allen Lee Davis), and post-mortem examinations suggest that execution by electric chair is often painful.