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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When it comes to lethal injections, no medical professionals are involved. Doctors make a big deal of “do no harm” and murdering people violates that. So the prison just has the guards figure out how to kill people with drugs.
Now the first injection is supposed to put the victim to sleep for a peaceful and humane death. But it turns out it’s just a paralytic and the prisoner feels all the pain and is conscious until their death. The first drug is just so the people watching don’t have to watch the victim scream in pain.
The second drug is supposed to cause a cardiac arrest to kill the victim. Where both these drugs go wrong is that the guards suck at actually hitting a vein. Majority of the time, they shoot it straight into the muscle, which causes immense pain, but doesn’t actually kill the person. So the guards often have to keep getting more drugs and more syringes and they just keep poking the poor guy until they finally manage to kill them, or someone decides it’s finally time to dust off the old guillotine.
Often times, the process can take 45 minutes to multiple hours to pull off. Imagine the witnesses just sitting there, bored out of their minds while the guards just fuck around with syringes. It’s supposed to be a catharsis for the victims of the crime, but it’s often just a shitshow.
The funny part is, the guards could probably go to gen pop and look for someone with a history of injection drug use to help them out. Say what you will about heroin addicts, but they’re probably the best people available to perform the lethal injection.
Anyway, any country using the death penalty should honestly just switch to firing squad or a guillotine, they are far more humane. Frankly, shooting the victim with napalm is honestly more humane than the lethal injection. Both methods cause unimaginable pain, but the napalm has a much higher success rate of actually killing the victim after a few minutes.
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