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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Many good top comments I won’t echo explained various issues. An unmentioned aspect is spectacle. You wrote “morality and other issues of the death penalty aside” but there is no way around it. There is no justification for executions, they are a circus. This limits options. Can’t go too gruesome but also can’t have it look like the victim enjoys their last moment.
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