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Why don't they apply anesthesia first? If I can get conked out so bad that I can't remember getting my wisdom teeth removed wouldn't that totally knock you out before being gassed?
You need a medic to administer the anesthesia and no medic is going to participate on that.
That's because if you mess it up you could kill somebody
Pharmaceutical companies will not supply those kinds of drugs for executions, because they understandably don't want their products associated with killing people.
Done properly, the nitrogen is basically an anesthesiac. It knocks you out real good.
If they can't properly enact what should've been a painless execution, how do you expect them to properly anesthetise someone?
Isn't the danger of improperly applying anesthesia that you could kill someone?
Of an overdose sure, but if they botch it the other way, there's a good possibility the prisoner never properly goes under or they wake up during the execution, either way experiencing the full pain of death.
That I'd figure is the worse of the results, and likely the one that'd happen given these guys seem to have a knack for torturous executions.
Isn't that still better than no anesthesia at all? Assuming that the execution method wasn't changed to be worse.
Technically speaking yes, but that assumes they're treated the same. It's almost certain that if the executioners are under the illusion their anesthesia has worked, they're not going to do things in such a way as to minimise pain.
Prisons seem determined to turn executions into torture sessions - and while the need for capital punishment can be debated all day, we can all agree that the death is supposed to be the punishment, not the procedure.
Because that would make a lot of sense, but the world doesn't work that way
The cruelty is the point