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I can’t believe I am about to write this, but... If you can’t kill someone in the course of two hours, I’m sorry, you had your chance and blew it. I say commute the bastard’s sentence to life w/o parole and be done with it.

On a side note this is not the first time lethal injection has taken an unacceptable amount of time to gain the end result. It should be abolished and we should go back to hanging. Even when that is botched it doesn’t take more than ten minutes to kill someone by strangulation. And done correctly it is one of fastest and most humane forms of execution. The British had hanging down to a science. The whole thing typically took less than a minute from the time the hangman entered the condemned man’s cell to the moment the trap was released.

On a side note this is not the first time lethal injection has taken an unacceptable amount of time to gain the end result. It should be abolished and we should go back to hanging.

I'm in agreement with this. It has many advantages.

1) There is no need for a bizarre drug cocktail that the supplier might decide to stop supplying. Rope is simple and easy.

2) It's effective. Done correctly, it severs the spinal cord and precludes any unnecessary suffering, satisfying the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

3) I think this is the most important one. Lethal Injection is used because it's easier for spectators to watch. Execution should not be sugar coated for the public. The voters have determined that this is a part of our justice system, and it should be viewable by the public in such a way that you can't pretend it's not happening. Hanging is violent, as it should be. This will force people to think about the subject more and make informed decisions about when to use it.