Maybe using anesthesia prior to administration would be a good way, since they won't be conscious in case you do have a hard time with a vein or something like that.
Although, personally, I'm become extremely cynical about the death penalty in general; despite advocating for it before, I think I might have flipped my position to where maybe we should prohibit execution of criminals. I'm not 100% prepared to say that yet, but I'm leaning that way.
It is inconceivable to me. We haven't had the death penalty here for over 50 years. Without even going into the actual moral question of whether it is right to execute someone, people are still being convicted of crimes they didn't commit.
Until there is a way to absolutely 100% determine who committed a crime, the death penalty shouldn't even be considered.
Without even going into the actual moral question of whether it is right to execute someone, people are still being convicted of crimes they didn't commit.
This is the main reason I've changed my view so drastically in the last few years.
There seems to be a very broad definition of "botched executions":
Most of these lethal injection ones are caused by the people administering the injection being completely inept when injecting, or using the wrong amount.
I would rather have a "botched" lethal injection than have the electric chair screw up.