The only choice for execution in Nebraska used to be the electric chair which is incredibly barbaric to me. It was the only state with no other choice. Finally, the court has banned it. Electrocution Is Banned in Last State to Rely on It - New York Times.
Working on a clean slate, Nebraska may opt for a form of lethal injection that does not rely on the combination of three chemicals that is the subject of a pending challenge in the United States Supreme Court. It may also explore entirely different methods of execution. Seven states allow at least some inmates to choose electrocution instead of lethal injection. Two others, Illinois and Oklahoma, have designated electrocution as the fallback method should lethal injection be ruled unconstitutional.
I'm glad that I'm still conflicted by the death penalty. I'd be afraid if I reached a point where it didn't matter to me or I was happy to enforce it. People always say that it doesn't matter or that its even a good thing that an execution hurts, but I disagree. It matters a lot. Executing someone is not about revenge and it should bring no one pleasure. Let's face it. It's murder, but that doesn't mean it has to resemble the pain and torture of the murders that put these men and women on death row in the first place.
