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- Sep 5, 2022
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Regardless off your thoughts on the death penalty, it looks like the death penalty cocktail is ironically the most peaceful way to go out, take away the fact that the person wants to live but is usually guilty of an egregious crime, in the 50's we just hung or shot or electrocuted criminals, now the cocktail they get, even if they are not happy to go, sounds like the most peaceful humane cocktail, WHY IS THERE A FUCKING ARGUMENT?
Currently in the US:
Currently in the US:
- Sodium thiopental or pentobarbital(aka N):[28] ultra-short-action barbiturate, an anesthetic agent used at a high dose that renders the person unconscious in less than 30 seconds. Depression of respiratory activity is one of the characteristic actions of this drug.[29] Consequently, the lethal-injection doses, as described in the Sodium Thiopental section below, will—even in the absence of the following two drugs—cause death due to lack of breathing, as happens with overdoses of opioids.
- Pancuronium bromide: non-depolarizing muscle relaxant, which causes complete, fast, and sustained paralysis of the striated skeletal muscles, including the diaphragm and the rest of the respiratory muscles; this would eventually cause death by asphyxiation.
- Potassium chloride: a potassium salt, which increases the blood and cardiac concentration of potassium to stop the heart via an abnormal heartbeat and thus cause death by cardiac arrest.