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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Your body actually really does not want to die and killing it without brutalizing it (like decapitation) is harder than you’d think. It takes very specific amounts of certain meds to make it happen right. Add onto this that the people trying to do it aren’t doctors and don’t know how the body works like a doctor does and you end up with methods that barely work being done poorly. Like the AWFUL N2 asphyxiation that was done a few weeks ago.

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