[Closed] Life and death row (BBC)

Are there new episodes ? It’s a brilliantly done documentary.
I’m very much against it but find the whole American system kind of fascinating, something that is so obviously flawed and skewed against poorer and one section of society yet there is some cultural urge for frontier type justice.
Recently one man was on the gurney for an hour while they tried to find a vein for the lethal injection before they had to abandon the process .

The whole American prison system is a business model, you have to get your head around that before you can start to understand it.

I'm very much against the death penalty, as the legal system makes too many mistakes and scapegoats.

But even if I were in favour, it seems needlessly expensive and barbaric, why mess about with fancy drugs when they could just put them deeply unconscious with valiuum /tamazepam, and once out, a shot of morphine at a lethal dose. Cheap as chips and painless.

Series 2. It's all about justice being seen to be carried out. Interesting the number of victims/families have absolute hate for the crim. Yet when faced with their death are visibly effected.

Aiui, because drugs like valium and tamazepan are not licensed for that purpose and the companies that make them refuse to supply for those purposes. Hence the regular search for new methods.

I also am dead against the death penalty....an eye for an eye makes us all blind....but Portillo did a very interesting documentary on it. Concluding that if the state is determined to kill, the most humane way is in a hypobaric chamber. Either reduce pressure, or pump in (I think he said helium or nitrogen) and as the condemned becomes oxygen deprived, first there's a feeling of drunkeness, then confusion, unconsciousness and ultimately hypoxia causes death. They did it/do it to pilots to show them early effects, and the only downside seems to be the condemned would go out giggling!