While the prisoner is executing the lethal injection, music is played in the room, which just reflects the more humane side of our country’s criminal law. It is hoped that through music, prisoners can relax and go to another world with a relaxed mood.
Death injection refers to the process of injecting poison or lethal agents to cause instantaneous death of the injected subject. It is generally used for executions, and is occasionally used for euthanasia and suicide. After being injected with the drug, the person being injected will first lose consciousness and stop breathing and heartbeat during sleep. Relatively speaking, there is not much pain.
In lethal injection, the person who is injected will usually die in about one and a half minutes. Compared with execution by firing squad, it can not only keep the body of the person being executed relatively intact, reduce the harm to the family members, but also reduce the psychological pressure of the person being executed to a certain extent. It has been more than 20 years since my country introduced lethal injection in 1997, and more than half of the cases have been used in the death penalty.
Injection is a very humane execution method that can minimize the psychological pressure of the person being executed. Just imagine, executions are usually carried out in the wilderness. The prisoner knows that he is about to rush to the execution ground, and every step of the way is one step closer to death. This process alone is already grueling enough.
In addition, the appearance of death by execution is generally ugly, and the faces of prisoners who are not executed properly will be greatly damaged. The family members who come to collect the corpses will be exponentially sadder when they see this scene. However, lethal injection can completely avoid the above disadvantages. It only requires a confined space and an injection to solve all the above problems.
There is also a piece of trivia about lethal injection. Before executing the lethal injection, the prisoner can choose the exclusive BGM of Ascension to Heaven. This will be the last sound a prisoner hears before dying, but there are few songs for prisoners to choose from. It is said that there are only three songs, one is the theme song of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", "Don't Look I'm Just a Sheep", the other is "True Forever" by Andy Lau, and the third is "Start Over" by Liu Huan.
Music is played to soothe the prisoner's mood, divert his attention during the execution of the lethal injection, and minimize the prisoner's pain. Although the drug takes only one and a half minutes to take effect, the preparation before the injection takes about twenty minutes. This song will be played on a loop for more than 20 minutes until the prisoner dies.
When you know that you are about to die, the psychological pressure is huge. At this time, there will also be specialized psychological counselors to provide psychological counseling to the death row inmates, who will also need to lie on the execution bed. These more than 20 minutes are really unbearable. For humanitarian reasons, the death row inmates are asked to choose a song and listen to the music before leaving this world.