Is execution inhumane? This very question will get many different opinions. America, perhaps more than any other country, has tinkered with the mechanics of legal executions in search of a "perfect" method. In operational terms, perfect would mean the most tame and reliable method of killing made possible by existing technology. The gas chamber, the electric chair, and most recently, lethal injection are the methods we use today. I am against the death penalty for many reasons: it's inhumane, the cost is more expensive,
             We normally think of modern execution methods as humane because they appear physically painless. Certainly these methods appear painless, but appearances can be misleading. Electrocutions are probably painful, and may be excruciatingly so. We now know considerable electricity generated by the chair largely circumvents the skull, and instead passes through the body and out the leg. Thus, while massive surges of electricity are coursing through his body, the prisoner is almost certainly conscious; nerve activity- which carries the sensation of pain remains intact. We have convinced ourselves that prisoners don't experience pain in part because they do not move or speak, which of course is natural reactions to pain. But prisoners in the throes of electrocution do not move or speak because they are physically paralyzed; they can only sit, frozen , and mute, in an enduring painful spasm. Harold Hillman, a neurobiologist, says " It is usually that the failure of the convict to move is a sign that he cannot feel pain. He cannot move because all of his muscles are contracted maximally. A physiological effect that in itself is enormously painful and further prevents the prisoner from crying out or providing other outward signs of massively painful effects of electrocution such as 3rd degree burns and an enormous heating up of the bodily fluids throughout the body... While the subject remains conscious, strapped into the chai...