Why not death by firing squad?

[Jubber]

What's wrong with dancing the Newgate jig?

[BrilloPad]

What's wrong with dancing the Newgate jig?

Too little rope and its a slow painful death. Too much and its decapitation.

[KentPhilip]

it is clear that consequences rarely enter their minds so deterrence is unlikely to be a good reason.

How do you know?

[EternalOptimist]

There was a controversy a few years ago when one of the states (Texas I think) couldnt get the lethal drugs anywhere in the ISA, so a Britsh firm supplied the stuff.
sent it via the Royal Mail iirc

[xoggoth]

How do you know?

From the circumstances of so much violent crime in the news.

Domestic crimes where nobody else is in the house. Young men stabbing each on crowded streets, stations or shopping malls with dozens of witnesses and CCTV cameras. Daftest I saw was that soldier who blew up his wife with a hand grenade. Let's see, who has access to hand grenades? That's a hard one!. If most murderers gave it a moment's thought they would know they had no chance of getting away with it.

The carefully planned murder, with real attention to concealing the crime or devising false alibis, seems to be the exception.

[xoggoth]

read about it? It was you wasn't it?