use a guillotine. If you are bothered by the image of the death you are inflicting on someone, don't execute. I'm sorry, but this is a pretty black and white issue. Either you are for killing or against killing. Does it really make the killing that much "better" if the victim did not suffer? Seems like a ridiculous argument to make.

This is how hospice works, and it is certainly humane

I was one of Mr. Asay's attorneys over twenty years ago when he was in state capital post conviction. I'm black. I knew him for more than three years. He was not a white supremacist and was less racist than any of his prosecutors, judges, the governors who kept signing his death warrants and most of our presidents. The prosecutors created the race angle out of whole cloth and threatened or paid off witnesses to support it. The courts signed off on it. Asay was their "proof" that neither capital punishment, nor the Jacksonville DA, were racist.

Asay was tatted up by the Aryan Brotherhood when he thrown into Beto I for joyriding a motorhome when he was barely 18. The gang members who put them on him described him during post conviction as the worst AB ever and that he would hang out with black inmates instead of them. His black boyfriend from when he was in prison in Florida for another property crime also testified for him, going over their disciplinary reports from the times they got caught. He called him the least racist white person he had ever known.

The crime itself was the confluence of massive amounts of alcohol, the State's star witness likely killing the first and only black victim, and the fact Asay was a guy whose mind was fucked up by a psychopath of a father who used to count the slices of bread and then tie his kids up and beat them with a 2 X 4 if a piece went missing.

Tonight I wish Mark peace.

I wish every person who participated in his death and everyone who cheered it never sleep again.