There's a great BBC documentary with Michael Portillo on how to most humanely execute a person: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx

There's a great BBC documentary with Michael Portillo on how to most humanely execute a person: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/executions/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband... Hypoxia seems the most kind way. Low pressure is not needed, just a lack of oxygen (by e.g. breathing helium). I suppose it's not enough of a punishment to go out this way, as it's rather pleasant as these things go (there's no feeling of suffocation) and there can even be a mild euphoria.