Trial begins over Arkansas' use of sedative in executions

[mr_lebowski]

1. I don't get why they don't just give people massive OD's of heroin or other opioid?

They kill 1000's a year, we know it works ... what, they just don't want 'em to die feeling good?

Barring that, why not use sodium pentothal to knock 'em out, like when you get surgery?

I mean, they can cut open your ribcage w/a bone saw and play with your heart ... while you're ALIVE, and you don't even feel it. Surely you won't feel the drugs that actually kill you ... while you're 'out' on sodium pent?