'Executions, democracy and right-sizing the housing crisis' – Peter Rhodes

But in a country where people linger on Death Row for decades (Moore's crime was committed in 1999), maybe one extra humane pause could be agreed. In Blackadder Goes Forth (BBC) Captain Edmund Blackadder is sentenced to be shot at dawn on the order: “Ready, aim, fire!” He asks if the commander of the firing squad could leave a pause between the words aim and fire – a pause of perhaps 30 or 40 years. It's worth a try . . .