botched and the rate for lethal injection may be even higher. during lethal injection, an anesthetic is supposed to put the inmate to sleep. a second drug causes paralysis and the final drug stops the prisoner's heart. it always doesn't go by the book and sometimes the drugs are administered incorrectly by the technician. a 2005 study found that 21 of 49 executed prisoners had anesthesia levels consistent with consciousness. meaning they may have been aware of what was happening but unable to express pain. then there's the electric chair. 500 to 2,000 volts were sent through the inmates body. if after 30 seconds he or she is still alive, the process is repeated. a supreme court justice once described electrocutions as extremely violent. witnesses have seen vomiting blood, burning skin and occasionally the body catches on fire. when the gas chamber was introduced in the 1920s, it was spend to be a more humane alternative. inmates are instructed to inhale deeply when they get in but they
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