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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Because painless execution may be the *stated* goal, but it isn’t really. Executing someone is about revenge, and if it was truly painless that visceral need wouldn’t be satisfied. But the public keeps having less and less of a stomach for executions, so they claim they are trying to find “better” ways to do it. If the really wanted it to be painless, they’d give someone NyQuil or the equivalent to knock them out, and then kill them in their sleep. But no, the person needs to start awake and be aware of the fact that they are dying because they can’t just die, they have to be **killed**.
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