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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Physician Medical societies (professional, and geographic area specific) and medical boards (state specific) will revoke your license and membership if you participate in the death penalty. So even if the physician supports the death penalty, they would ruin their careers over performing it.
Lots of nurse societies are the same.
So you are stuck with amateurs “practicing” a skill. An additional problem is potassium hurts, even when you have a well placed IV. Patients complain of stinging and burning even with 20meq which is a very small dose. I can’t imagine the pain of lethal doses.
And the electric chair is barbaric torture and has no place in society.
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