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For those suggesting the guillotine, you should know that you remain conscious for at least 30 seconds after decapitation. You may even communicate by blinking after your head is severed. Theoretically, you might also be able to speak if someone managed to blow air into your windpipe. It's also possible to save your life if someone quickly reattaches your head to your body. It has actually been done with a dog before, although the experiment was to create a twoheaded dog, which was a success.

You might also want to put someone under global anesthesia before decapitation in order to avoid any potential suffering and dread. However, even such a procedure isn't perfect. There's always the risk of a methodological error that would only make things worse. There's also the risk that the victim is allergic to any of the chemicals injected in their body. And even if everything goes smoothly, you're still forcing the victim to feel dread during the time they're waiting for their execution.

There's no humane way to kill. The mere act of killing is the antithesis of humane. The death penalty is also much more expensive than life imprisonment. There's also the significant risk that an innocent person is wrongly convicted and sentenced to death. And let's not forget that racism ensures that black people are much more often sentenced to death than white people for the same crimes. It's also been proven that the death sentence doesn't reduce crime, so it's useless as a deterrent. How is the death sentence any different than murder?