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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Medical professionals don’t get involved because it’d be against their moral and ethical code (see: the Hippocratic oath).

Drug manufacturers will not supply the drugs because of global supply chains and the fact that the death penalty is illegal in many countries, so it’s just not good for business for them.

Without access to any of the skills and infrastructure of the medical profession, lethal injections are effectively prepared and administered with the same level of skill and quality as your neighbourhood meth lab.

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