To me hanging seems more dignified too... and I am referring to the dignity of the state, not the victim/condemned.
It is fundamentally DIFFERENT to everyday.
The lethal injection or the gassing seem to be pervesions of normal life events (the hospital for example), the electric chair a perversion of industrialisation... the gallows are unique for their purpose at least.
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