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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The process of a medical execution has been made more complicated than it could be out of the desire to make it look clean. Last time I checked, there were three chemicals involved – one to kill, one to paralyze so they don’t thrash like they’re in horrible pain, and one to anesthesize so they (as intended, anyway) aren’t in any actual terrible pain. Not that they could complain while they’re paralyzed.
If you use gas, the inmate could hold their breath out of the predictable desire to stave death away, which would just drag it out and make it look less clean. Apparently there’s been such a case recently.
https://apnews.com/article/nitrogen-execution-death-penalty-alabama-699896815486f019f804a8afb7032900
Add to that the already-stated issues with doctors and drug companies trying to keep away from it alll.
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