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This is a wholly opinionated question, so any answers (even those based on statistics) will be opinionated as well. That said, the electric chair is painful and, while generally short, malfunctions have caused some people to suffer for several minutes before death. However, while lethal injection is intended to be a painless, fast, nonviolent form of death, there have been several occasions where errors have resulted in excruciating (and sometimes theatrical) deaths. Mechanical malfunction and human error are the most common causes of botched executions, but if you were to compare a perfect electrocution against a perfect lethal injection, the latter would be the only painless procedure between the two.

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Q: Which is more humane lethal injection or electric chair?
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