If governments are always looking for more humane methods of execution, why are heroin and other opiates never used, since they are supposedly the most blissful way to pass?

Question

If governments are always looking for more humane methods of execution, why are heroin and other opiates never used, since they are supposedly the most blissful way to pass?

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Answer 1

Most of the conversation with execution doesn’t just center on the actual death but the perception of that death.

Example: They have considered just filling the room with a nitrogen instead of air/oxygen since your body does not recognize “lack of oxygen” it only has sensors for Co2 levels in the blood. This is why a lot of industry professions have warning signs all over to warn against such deaths in closed spaces with gasses. A person will just be fine and dandy until they pass out and die from lack of O2….no warning.

The reason they havent done it? A persons body still convulses in this passed out state and it “looks painful and distressing”. The perception of observers on the method of death factors into the whole “cruel and unusual” punishment argument.