Why are there so many botched executions?

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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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Carbon Dioxide asphyxiation is horrific and it is illegal to kill research animals this way. You are thinking of carbon Monoxide

I hear some places are switching to nitrogen for executions but frankly the execution process is so expensive that it would be better to just leave them in jail until they die

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