Justice Scalia: Let them die in pain

"This is an execution, not surgery," [Justice] Scalia said, adding, "Where does this come from, that ... in the execution of a person who has been convicted of killing people we must choose the least painful method possible? Is that somewhere in our Constitution?" Link

db: Are the families of the executed as innocent as the families of the victims? Can you not compare the pain inflicted on them, by the state, with the pain inflicted on the families of the murdered victims? Governments have no moral right to kill their citizens under any circumstances. Losing your son, brother, father under such conditions must bring unbearable suffering.