Should painful or painless death matter in a death penalty?

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# The US Supreme Court upheld the three-drug lethal injection method clearing the way for an unofficial moratorium on executions to be lifted.

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# In the three-drug protocol one of those drugs, a paralytic, would render the prisoner unable to express his discomfort and the other two drugs can cause excruciating pain.

# Execution by lethal injection may not be the painless procedure but some risk of pain is inherent in any method of execution no matter how humane.

# Lethal injection as practiced in the US is no more humane than the gas chamber or electrocution, which have both been deemed inhumane.

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