So I can understand a drug to knock a person out and then a drug to kill them, but then why a drug in-between to also paralyze them?
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The sleep agent is generally effective and well tolerated when it’s administered by a trained anesthesiologist or similarly trained doctor who knows how to administer it and what adverse reactions can occur.
But doctors aren’t the ones administering the sleep agent or the other drugs involved in the lethal injection. About 7% of lethal injections in the US have been botched and several even failed to kill the condemned prisoner at all. Your “it should be easy” theorizing isn’t worth a bill of beans when you look at how often those executions are screwed up. When performed properly, a lethal injection should be as close to painless as possible. It’s often not performed properly.
There are much better methods of executing a condemned prisoner if we are going to have executions at all. Considering how often our justice system fucks up, I don’t trust our courts to only execute guilty people, but that’s a separate issue.
Fun fact: there has never been a botched execution by firing squad in the US.
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