Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Alabama Halts Executions After 3rd Botch | The Kyle Kulinski Show" video.

Actually the mix that America used to use came from the Nazis. It was developed by a pair of doctors who experimented on orphans an mentally ill patients as part of finding a cleaner more efficient way for the "final solution." There was a documentary put out by a couple of British Journalists in the Early 90s. It wasn't pro or con it was about simply informing people what various nations do and where it came from and some basic stats like the average time it takes to various techniques to do the job. As part of that they described where the idea/concept of the lethal injection came from. Being German those doctors wrote it all down and sent their data to Berlin where it was found after the war.
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Over 20 years ago a couple of us at work were discussing exactly the same question. One of the people present mentioned that a couple of British Journalists had done a documentary of capital punishment. They didn't argue if it was right or wrong they just presented the facts of how capital punishment was practised so that people could decide for themselves. I have seen that documentary and its got some brutal facts. 1) In the first 90 years of the 20th century less than 9 out of 10 people formally executed by nation states were NEVER charged with any crime, let alone went to court or had any from of legal representation or right of appeal. They were simply accused and then executed. Don't forget we had 2 World Wars and several ugly revolutions. 2) The times various methods actually take to kill a person is far higher than most proponents are willing to admit. In some cases the so called "clean & quick" can take minutes and in some cases 10s of minutes before the body of person being executed gives out due to the injuries. Among the worst is electrocution which can take around 30 minutes before the internal damage from the shocks finally causes death. Go look at what happened to Ethel Rosenberg wife of Julius Rosenberg, electric shocks do not necessarily stop a human heart. 3) The actual chemical mix used in America (at that time, mid 90s) was developed by a pair of German doctors during the Nazi era. There task was to find a "cleaner more efficient" method for the "final solution." Those 2 doctors experimented on orphans and mentally ill patients with various cocktails before they came up with the desired effect - quick & clean.
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