U.S. judge blocks sale of controversial execution drug to Missouri

[pipoman]

1. I really don't understand the controversy

I get the controversy around the death penalty...not the lethal injection. Most of us have been anethnisized at one time or another, not a painful process. Then the surgeon proceeds to split the sternum and pry the chest cavity open, cut out an infected organ, or what ever. .still no pain until the patient is awakened. ..happens thousands of times per day. Why not simply anethnisize the person, then administer 20 times the lethal dose of the same drug?