Lethal injection is creepy cause it tries to sanitize execution as something less grisly than what it is, so that people can sit back and pretend like it’s “clean” and “painless”, and wash their hands of it, when it’s neither clean, nor painless, nor even guaranteed to work.

I do think there are contexts where execution has its place, like in revolutionary war for gaining and then maintaining power where you’re up against people who will literally kill you if you don’t, who have committed immense war crimes and are a danger to have around, but pretending like it’s not a brutal struggle and thinking you can wield it as some kind of sanitized tool of justice is twisted. And even then, it’s not automatically necessary, like in the story of the CPC reeducating the “last emperor of China” after they had power.

But US “justice” is a joke and it has, last I remember checking, the highest incarceration rate in the world. Racist, sexist, settler trash system cosplaying as “democracy”.