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The Effect of Time on Execution
In many botched executions in the US and there have been many in the past years by lethal injection as well. The idea is to reduce the effect of the visual of pain because if you are numbed, if you are paralyzed, you can't react. And then the cardiac arrest happens. So yeah, so the time taken to for the drug to take effect of the electric in the case of electric chair means that other aspects of your other organs are getting literally burning before you can eventually die.
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