The problem is that WE are not savages.
I'm very pro-death penalty, but "modern" methods are neither as effective nor as morally neutral as the good stuff.
Long-drop hanging or the guillotine do the job with a pull on the lever, and are as instantaneous as it's possible to be.
No, we’re not. If one were to query what the Lethal Injection Protocol for Oklahoma is, he/she would read that it uses a three-dose injection regimen: Sedative, paralysis, heart stop.
The sedative is the first drug in Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol. It is followed by vecuronium bromide, a drug that causes paralysis and stops breathing. The third drug, potassium chloride, stops the heart. Oklahoma recently switched to Pentabarbitol as the last ingredient which is the same drug used to euthanize animals.
Upon being initially injected, he made the claim. What does that sound like to you? An anti-death crusader suggesting to him that he say this?
Food for thought.