BRUCE BURNS

Ironically it takes skill to hang a person, or to operate an electric chair or gas chamber, and lethal injection takes several skilled trained people. While a firing squad can be organized with people who have no other skill than to shoot straight at a short distance of which there are tens of millions of Americans. However, for many people it was offensive in discussing the serious and fundamentally moral issue of capital punishment to be concerned with saving a few dollars relative to being humane and reflecting American values.

Ironically it takes skill to hang a person, or to operate an electric chair or gas chamber, and lethal injection takes several skilled trained people. While a firing squad can be organized with people who have no other skill than to shoot straight at a short distance of which there are tens of millions of Americans. However, for many people it was offensive in discussing the serious and fundamentally moral issue of capital punishment to be concerned with saving a few dollars relative to being humane and reflecting American values.