Can We as Engineers Find a More Humane Way to Execute People?

Leave them completely restrained for one hour with the grieving family, friends or associates and come what may no holds barred.

I know of a inhumane way to kill people.... Lock them up with my girlfriend and let her talk them to death. Perhaps supplying the criminal with several tools to do the job himself before they are actually chatty chatted to death by my better half... oh my I miss read that, not an INhumane way.. Ok... quick fix let her take her top off while doing this, <("<) <( " )> (>")> Damn I crack myself up 8).. oh shoot she's behind me.. fairwell cruel world!

Electron Oasis! (I locked myself out forgetting my password, the joys of a new PC)

The last words of a dead man!

Best of luck and it was good to know you.

It's not really about humaneness. It's about aesthetics. About the spectators.

Whether as engineers or otherwise, it is a question which is imprudent to ask, especially for engineers. So the "answer" would be: that in such a question lies its own answer...only one (of the two) of which has existed, or will exist, for all time.

Obligation of the Engineer.

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"I am an Engineer, in my profession I take deep pride. To it I owe solemn obligations.

Since the Stone Age, human progress has been spurred by the engineering genius. Engineers have made usable Nature's vast resources of material and energy for Humanity's [Mankind's] benefit. Engineers have vitalized and turned to practical use the principles of science and the means of technology. Were it not for this heritage of accumulated experience, my efforts would be feeble.

As an Engineer, I pledge to practice integrity and fair dealing, tolerance and respect, and to uphold devotion to the standards and the dignity of my profession, conscious always that my skill carries with it the obligation to serve humanity by making the best use of Earth's precious wealth.

As an Engineer[, in humility and with the need for Divine guidance,] I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. When needed, my skill and knowledge shall be given without reservation for the public good. In the performance of duty and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give the utmost. "

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Therefore I believe that killing people by state decree is the province of politicians.

The engineering way, to be totaly professional, has to be clean, quick and at a reasonable cost. Unfortunately maybe politicians and judges as well as prison officials will carry this through, but the engineer is the provider and backroom mover. After all engineers are voters too and provide the means for that as well.