Morality and other issues of death penalty aside. We hear about botched executions quite often, even to the point that it has to be stopped and administered again. There are so many types of executions and all have trouble. Lethal injection death has about 7% botched rate.
In my mind, how hard is it to kill a person? For example people die of overdose all the time, or from breathing gasses. Dying from a carbon dioxide inhalation is described as falling asleed. People go into anesthesia where thy don`t feel a thing all the time when in surgery.
Its seems like there should be fairly easy painless and efficient method to do it, but there are still so many issues. Why?
EDIT: Carbon monoxide is what was meant, I just suck at chemistry
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Executions are the most severe punishment possible. The power that be don’t care so much about the process (hanging, fire squad, electrocution, beheading, stoning, drawing & quartering) as the end result and the witness’s & executioner’s experience.
I’d prefer we issue a fentanyl patch to the condemned and give them a window of time to use it, Record the death for those who need to see.
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