Reply #34: You're right about the anesthetics [View All]

[NuclearDem]

But the problem arises when, after the anesthetic is administered, if it's insufficient to really put the person completely to sleep (as you pointed out) or if they're simply unresponsive to the people administering the drugs. If they do feel pain from the execution, the staff would have no way of knowing, since they would be paralyzed and drugged on anesthetics to the point where they can't respond.

So for all we know, they very well could be suffering immensely--they just have no way to express it.

Sure, if the procedure is done absolutely perfectly, I'll concede that that cocktail can result in a painless execution...but it so much has the potential to fail that I won't write it off as a truly painless execution method.