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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Part of the problem is that we are limited by the ways it can be done. Any existing method is approved. Any new method or a slight change to an existing method, and it is labeled as ‘untried’ or ‘experimental’ or ‘unusual’ in trying to get that method abolished. If the state’s latest plan is unconstitutional, then the condemned lives longer. That makes it more difficult to refine the process over time.
Personally, I think we should just drown them. No drugs, just strap them to a metal frame and tilt their head into warm water for an hour.
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