From: Alan Cairns 

How can it be difficult to produce a painless death by lethal injection?

All you need do is a proper GA. At that, the  pentothal dosage should be
enough to assure unconsciousness.

However, it appears that executioners  of all sorts tend to botch the job.

Alan




On 5/3/04 6:35 PM, in article opr7gb06hoy0yqhy{at}news.barkto.com, "Steve
Ewing"  wrote:

> On Mon, 03 May 2004 19:22:47 +0100, Adam Flinton 
> wrote:
>
>> Legal execution is legal execution. The means are irrelevant.
>>
>>
>> Adam
>
> Actually the lethal injection may turn out to be "cruel and unusual".
> They use a mixture, a muscle relaxant and something else that actually
> kills you.  The "something else" may actually cause some period of
> excruciating pain, but the relaxant keeps the person appearing calm and
> sedated.
>
> http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031211-023818-6124r.htm
>
> One SF novel I read had the authorities using an OD of heroin or cocaine;
> that seems reasonable.

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