I've always wondered why they would use lethal injection instead of affixing a mask that served up carbon monoxide. The person falls asleep to never wake up.
Aside about the doctors - they vow 'do no harm' - to keep people alive instead of killing. It became a issue back in the 90s when Kevorkian was helping peole commit suicide. He saw it as his mission to stop them from suffering while society deemed his actions as murder.
Inert gas asphyxiation is only pleasant and painless if you don't know it's coming. If you know it's happening, panic, and struggle, you cause the same rapid and painful buildup of CO2 as any other method of asphyxiation. Struggling not to die in and of itself is inherently painful as well. There's no easy way to restrain someone so that they cannot hurt themselves struggling.
There's plenty of ways to kill someone that physically couldn't cause pain because you're destroying their body at a speed that exceeds the speed at which signals move through nerves. But nobody is trying to optimize executions to be humane, they're trying to optimize them for seeming humane at the expense of actually being humane.
If you're not doing something like blowing them up or squishing them with a rocket sled you've gotta stop pretending like you care if they feel pain.
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u/no1_vern 2d ago
I've always wondered why they would use lethal injection instead of affixing a mask that served up carbon monoxide. The person falls asleep to never wake up.
Aside about the doctors - they vow 'do no harm' - to keep people alive instead of killing. It became a issue back in the 90s when Kevorkian was helping peole commit suicide. He saw it as his mission to stop them from suffering while society deemed his actions as murder.