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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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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General anaesthetic will kill you at slightly higher concentrations than what you get for surgeries. Just use that. The prisoner would be deeply unconscious before it killed him.