The official reason is that they thrash about when they’re unconscious. But there’s lots of evidence to suggest that the drugs to knock the person out don’t work as well as they’re meant to, so the paralytic is to hide the fact that it hurts like hell. Some people like me are against any fo of execution. That’s fine. Some people, unlike me want painful executions because “they deserve it”. That’s fine too. What’s not fine is the whole “we’re all going to watch someone be killed but we’re going to be civilized about it”
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