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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Frankly, its harder to kill someone that people think. In Hollywood, a single gunshot wound = go on without me! Save yourself!
Meanwhile, some soldiers survive a dozen high-velocity rounds to the torso and miraculously live. That’s a rare case, but it proves my point I think. Hell, 50 cent got shot 9 times.
Basically, unless you actually kill the brain with a bullet, it has a good chance of surviving. That’s why I say if we’re going to have a death penalty, do what we do to cattle and use a .22 to push a thin metal rod into their brain at high velocity.
Do it twice, for twice the humanity. We ironically created probably the most humane way to end a life for farm animals before we figured it out for humans. We almost had it right with firing squads.
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