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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Executing somebody has been an evolving science as ethics and criminal justice have changed over the years. The guillotine was an improvement over the executioners axe, because then you got rid of Chuck who always took two swings to decapitate somebody because he always flinched on the first one.
Basically it’s been an innovative race to find the most reliable way to execute somebody without causing them an insane amount of pain. Which leads us all the way to today in the US where we use a cocktail of drugs to knock somebody all the way out. They’re also beginning to test Nitrogen suffocation (pretty sure it was nitrogen), which sounds promising on the “reliable and painless” factor because you basically go to sleep and never wake up.
I’ll be honest I’ve always thought that if you’re already going to kill somebody they probably don’t really deserve all this, and if you can find a firing squad a bullet is a lot cheaper than a whole execution set up. I also understand that no gun is fired without a person pulling the trigger somewhere, so you’d have to rectify the potential PTSD and mental harm to the executioner.
Capital punishment is an interesting ethical topic, very worth discussing with people you know IRL because there’s a lot of interesting ways to take it.
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