>Over the following two decades, the subject occasionally
>re-surfaced. In 1973 for example, Ronald Reagan, then governor of
>California, raised the idea of execution by lethal injection by
>analogy to the killing of wounded animals.
>
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>Being a former farmer and horse raiser, I know what it's like to try
>to eliminate an injured horse by shooting him. Now you call the
>veterinarian and the vet gives it a shot [injection] and the horse
>goes to sleep-that's it. I myself have wondered if maybe this isn't
>part of our problem [with capital punishment], if maybe we should
>review and see if there aren't even more humane methods now-the
>simple shot or tranquillizer.
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