execution issues

The electric chair is officially an alternative method of execution in Tennessee if lethal drugs are not available. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tennessee-signs-bill-electric-chair-23836338 I wonder if the horrifying aspect of being electrocuted would add as an additional crime...

Painless, very cheap and without the complications of someone being injected with a cocktail of drugs that can have the side effect of torturing that person to death.

Linky.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-prisons-end-special-last-meals-executions-195102056.html Really, who did it hurt? I think it's a fine tradition, for those countries that still have the death penalty. Ending a life is serious business, and the last meal was a nice way of paying respect to that even...

This thread got me thinking: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124546&page=2 What if an innocent person, after exhausting his appeals, simply refused to cooperate with the execution? What if he put up a fight? Screamed? Would they force him into the execution chamber...