Why not? Once the person is dead they're no threat. No reason to make them suffer in the end. And in a utilitarian and anti-retributivist (and so anti-desert) sense it's even a small bonus.
Sounds to me like the perfect form of euthanasia and death penalty.
Besides, even if you're retributivist, what about the risk (however small) that someone has been put to death who is in fact innocent? If they're innocent, then at least they would die in ecstasy. The last thing you want is not only a termination of life for an innocent person, but a horribly painful death as well.
Sounds to me like the perfect form of euthanasia and death penalty.
Besides, even if you're retributivist, what about the risk (however small) that someone has been put to death who is in fact innocent? If they're innocent, then at least they would die in ecstasy. The last thing you want is not only a termination of life for an innocent person, but a horribly painful death as well.
