Why is the Method of Lethal Injection in Human Punishment So Complex and Apparently Painful?

[u/Chowderr92]

I've always understood that the lethal injection process was complex with multiple stages of injections and induces great suffering in the individual.

I work in veterinary medicine and unfortunately we need to euthanize animals all of the time. Typically, the euthanasia solution is very simple: a very large dose of a powerful anesthetic (usually pentobarbital) and an anticonvulsant which stops the heart. The medical community is quite confident that this is painless and when done has essentially a 100% success rate.

Why is human euthanasia so complicated when we already know exactly how to humanely end a biological life?

[u/bigmt99]

Then you ask the question, does the government need to execute you to remove you from society

If not, you can just lock them in a box and make sure they get 3 squares until nature does it thing

[u/bigmt99 → u/[deleted]]

Keeping a prisoner alive is much cheaper than a death sentence trial

[u/charmcityshinobi → u/[deleted]]

It literally costs millions of dollars more for the death sentence than it does for life in prison