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Why not use hanging as capital punishment in the USA?

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During WW2 the United States decided it needed to hang certain soldiers in France who had run afoul of the UCoMJ. They put an ad out for people with experience performing executions, notably hanging. read more

Hanging is not a good method of execution. I am against capital punishment. There is no way to apologize to an innocent man you have hanged, as Republican Rick Perry did in Texas a few years back. And the application is arbitrary. Justice is not blind. Even so called lethal injection is fraught with risk. read more

But not long after, Hospira, the sole manufacturer of the drug, said it wanted to get out of the sodium thiopental market due to its use in capital punishment. As a result, states began using pentobarbital, which was commonly used in executions since 2011. read more

The eighth amendment of the Bill of rights states that cruel and unusual punishment shall not be inflicted. During this time period, hanging was not considered to be cruel and unusual, yet almost two hundred years later, this amendment was key to the temporary suspension of capital punishment by the Supreme Court. read more