What if we just stop executing people? Then we can be certain that there’s never a wrongful execution ever again

“Humane execution” and other Principles of Newspeak coming to an American media outlet near you.

It would be possible to humanely kill someone by overdosing them with opiates, though that fails the test of capital punishment advocates because it’s too pleasant a way to go out. So what they’re looking for is a way of killing someone that is neutral to mildly unpleasant, but falls short of torture.

Cruel and usual.

Nitrogen suffocation is the way, as long as you use a chamber instead of a mask like that botched execution a while back