Have you ever wondered why pets seem to drift off to sleep peacefully when euthanised, while there are so many concerns with lethal injection for capital punishment in humans? What causes this stark difference in outcomes between the two practices?
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###Peaceful Euthanasia for Pets vs. Issues with Lethal Injection for Humans
####Why do Pets Drift Off Peacefully During Euthanasia?
– Is there a difference in the chemicals used?
– Are animals more sensitive to sedatives than humans?
– How does the euthanasia process differ for pets compared to humans?
####Challenges with Lethal Injection in Capital Punishment
– What are the ethical concerns surrounding lethal injection for humans?
– How do human rights organizations view the use of lethal injection in capital punishment?
– Are there alternative methods considered more humane for carrying out the death penalty?
With these questions in mind, let’s explore the complexities and nuances of euthanasia for pets versus lethal injection for capital punishment, and why different outcomes are observed in these two scenarios.
I’ve heard it’s something about pharmaceutical companies not wanting to sell them for use in capital punishment, so prisons end up experimenting with all sorts of unusual concoctions
Your pet really doesn’t know what is coming. So they just drift off to sleep.
A prisoner knows exactly what is coming. They will have tension in every muscle and their system will be highly agitated. As the drugs act these tensions will release and are likely to be seen as ‘struggling’.
The executed likely do not feel a thing, any more than your pet does – but vocal anti-execution activists don’t accept science, and prey on your emotions to protest perfectly reasonable and logical punishments.
It’s the fact that the drugs used to euthanize animals and would easily euthanize humans are made by companies that don’t want to supply them for capital punishment. So they must find other drugs that they can use
it looks like a combo of many things, ranging from untrained staff to inability to get the correct drugs.
Actual medical doctors swear an oath not to inflict harm and pharmaceutical companies don’t knowingly supply drugs to killers. Prisons just do whatever they want with minimal training and improvised materials.
They don’t alway drift off and stop breathing quickly and peacefully… Your experience putting your dog down is not everyone’s experience. Also humans are not dogs, drugs among many other things effect us differently.
You’ve never seen a healthy pet euthanized. It’s a VERY different experience (so my vet friend tells me…I can’t bear it), and it happens at some shelters.
Same thing with humans. You’re talking about a healthy human being. Aside from that, though, the argument against capital punishment is more about it existing at all, not what method is used.
The bigger question to as is, if it’s ok to euthanize an old, sick animal with no chance of recovery, why do we deny humans the same care?
It’s not a “drift into sleep”. It’s abrupt and jarring.
Euthanasia can also sometimes go wrong. My cat didn’t die when he had the first injection. He needed a second one directly into his stomach. It was horrible.
They don’t always just drift off to sleep. 2 dogs I had who where in absolute agony drifted off. But one who was riddled with Bowel cancer but was not showing signs of pain. He struggled against it and was crying and spazzing out. It was not a quiet or pleasant death. And it honestly made me re-think my stance on euthanasia. Although at the end of the day I am pro Suicide booth.
– Doctors and other medical professionals refuse to take part in executions
– Pharmaceutical companies refuse to supply drugs for lethal injections
The current cocktail of drugs used in lethal injections is far from ideal, but it’s all the government can get their hands on. There have been attempts to procure drugs for lethal injections without direct permission from the pharmaceutical companies, but these have been met with lawsuits, threats of blacklisting, and some pharmaceutical companies have just stopped manufacturing certain drugs completely to stop them from being used in executions.
Because pets are better than people and they deserve to die peacefully.
Firstly, as other people said it is an issue with getting chemicals and what kind of chemicals to use at all.
Secondly, animals are euthanized by medical professionals in the US basically every association of medical professionals has banned their members from taking part in executions meaning a lot of the executioners might even struggle with basic tasks like administering a drug. There have been cases where executees had to have numerous injections because they couldn’t find the artery. Or cases in which they missed the artery causing the chemicals to not enter the blood stream but just sitting around in the issue slowly and painfully making its way to its destination.
That second part is a huge reason why lethal injection has a failure rate of around 7%. That only being the known cases. Since the lethal injection is typically made up of a paralytic, anaesthesia and a poison, as long as the paralytic works you will not know if the other ones work as intended, since the executee cannot inform anyone they are still awake.
It’s an attempt by the pharmaceutical to appear virtuous and moral.Â
Also, anaesthesia gone wrong.
In surgery, there is one specialized doctor just for the anaesthesia, and if they don’t do their job right, the patient can go to sleep and never wake up, regardless of the surgeon doing their part properly.
I always wondered why they don’t just OD on anaesthetic as a form of execution. Not that it would matter in my country because we don’t have death penalty.
I’ve heard this for some years now. I didn’t do a deep dive, but if this is true, this is one reason why there are issues with lethal
injection.https://eji.org/news/lethal-injections-cause-suffocation-and-severe-pain-autopsies-show/#:~:text=Lethal%20injection%20causes%20severe%20pain,new%20report%20from%20NPR%20found.
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Typically, they give the dogs an injection to knock them out, followed by another to stop their heart. And now I get to spend the next few hours missing the five I lost.
I don’t think that most of the issues about lethal injection are because of the drugs they use. The issue is that a lot of people don’t believe that healthy humans (even murderous crazy people) should be euthanized at all. The drug discussion is just a sidenote to the bigger issue.
They sometimes don’t work that well with dogs either. Happened with one of mine. Was absolutely horrific, and he suffered immensely.
If it weren’t for an innate thirst for vengeance, the tiniest dose of fentanyl could easily be used for capital punishment.
Looking at the history, it appears we want them suffer.
Humans are bipolar like that, they have absolutely no problem with putting their pets down, but they have a huge problem with putting convinced criminals to death
Pharma companies and medical doctors want nothing to do with it. Shooting people in the head, while generally effective, is messy and unpalatable.