Some other options, like the more modern firing squad, at least tend to not be incredibly, purposefully prolonged like some have been throughout the historical record. Standard drop hanging could lead to immediate unconsciousness or death. Even suffering for hours, though, would be far less terrible than what the ancient or sometimes modern world carried/carries out. Plutarch speaks of Persian scaphism, where forced overfeeding, constant sun exposure, and consumption by the likes of scavenging bugs were all used in conjunction. The victim was said to be placed in a boat on their back and smeared with honey, left for flies and bees, and made to defecate by the forced eating, which brought more creatures that would start entering the victim.
Then there is the Assyrian habit of eagerly flaying captives, where the skin is removed slowly from the body while someone is still alive. Josephus and Tacitus (in works like Antiquities of the Jews, The Jewish War and Annals) speak of a far more renowned form of utterly cruel execution style: Roman crucifixion. This had no single reported variation, with some people being impaled in their genitals according to Seneca the Younger. Flogging, forced nudity, the nailing of the limbs or other body parts, and public exposure to the elements contributed to torture that, like with scaphism, could last for consecutive days. It could be utilized specifically to artificially extend the extreme torture.
That many evangelicals say crucifixion was deserved by people besides Jesus, such as by the thieves crucified with him, only reveals that they are horrendously opposed to Biblical ethics (Deuteronomy 25:3 alone, among other passages in the Torah that are relevant to various aspects of Roman crucifixion, by extension condemns practices like this). Many of these idiots also likely think that Biblical stoning is some egregious, unjust thing that would be sinful to reintroduce to contemporary society, though they say they obey the Bible (which commands stoning in select circumstances), approve of forbidden and far worse legal punishments, or support things like the American prison system with its objectively far more severe nature.
Life imprisonment, even aside from solitary confinement, sexual or physical abuse, is far more harsh a penalty (and one excluded by the Biblical kinds), with its perhaps many years of isolation that a person would simply have to endure. This is without the rape and nonsexual savagery that is actively encouraged or casually approved of by many Americans! Stoning, one of the more prominent execution methods prescribed by God in the Bible (which would still be binding of Christianity is true: Deuteronomy 4:5-8, Malachi 3:6, Matthew 5:17-20, James 1:17), is blatantly, objectively minor even compared to America's prisons. One blow to the head could bring unconsciousness. The ancient pagan world is reputed to have practiced tortures that far exceed the absolutely mild prescriptions of Yahweh in Mosaic Law, and so does present day America. If Christianity is true, justice in this life and the next [1] has been very much misunderstood.
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