"Two chopsticks to the back of the head."
They'd be MUCH more cruel than that, Professor ... they would have showed him a nude photo of Hillary Clinton (taken from Huma's point of view, of course). Such a method of execution would mean that he was a dead man walking after one second of exposure, but it would be a tortuous, lingering death for at least another hour or two.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence