Only by some weird mutation of the concept of "freedom of choice" in each of the 50 states could this happen.
How would it be possible for the USA to have as many possible execution methods as possible and for them to be used regularly? So, maybe a mix of hanging, gas chamber, lethal injection, firing squad etc? How would it come about?
Otl, essentially. All these methods are on the books in one state or another, although lethal injection seems to dominate these days.
I meant so that maybe not just one dominates. Also, are the others used regularly?
Because of a) the resistance of the medical profession and pharmaceutical industry to licensing drugs to be used in lethal injections and b) less resistance to the idea of organ donation by condemned criminals so that lives taken can lead to other lives saved, I coud easily see a shift to a humane device that sends a captive bolt into the base of the condemned skull to destroy the condemned's thalamus. Once the thalamus is destroyed, the condemned is effectively brain dead and the rest of the body can be kept on life support and taken to a medical center where the organs and then tissues can be harvested.. the controversy will arise when this is done involuntarily, thus vindicating the Chinese employment of the practice.