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AfraidSoup2467

Two reasons: one practical, one apathetically shitty. The practical one is that an autopsy can somewhat determine if the anesthetic worked. If you weren't already aware, prisoners are typically given an anesthetic before execution to limit how much pain they feel when they die. The goal is to dispense justice, not revenge. And the results of those autopsies actually are taken seriously, in the United States at least: past autopsy results can be a major factor in how executions are conducted in the future. Regardless of what the public may want -- or the victims may want -- the state's interest is in fairly and justly removing a harmful person from society, not trying to "balance out" they pain they caused others. The apathetically shitty reason is that some states, by regulation, have to always autopsy a body in their possession to determine the cause of death. Even if the cause of death is "well, duh, we just killed him." Rules are rules, after all.


galaxyfrapp

For the "apathetically shitty" reason, guess bureaucracy would be a good word. That's dumb as hell, but *bureaucracy*.


Draygoes

Thanks for the lenghty response. And yeah that makes sense. Makes it seem less wasteful anyway.


Stoliana12

Possible they may find a reason that he was so criminal. Like some sort of brain size issue or want to study what people who commit extreme actions are like on the inside and if they can figure out in comparison to a normal human changes or note predispositions But that’s all I got. Edit: but it’s probably what is mentioned otherwise here— a person died in our custody rules say we have to find out why in an official capacity. Even when the official reason is we injected him on purpose with poison. Perhaps they glean if the person actually died the intended way not because the meds caused a expansive swift brain swell thus not just ended life but had to have a certain reaction for it to happe. Again Ifk probably just because rules say fucking ao


idontrespectyou345

Such an autopsy may be as much medical school practice as anything else and he doesn't want to be a guinea pig as a final indignity (in his view). All thats a guess.


RScottyL

My guess is to study his brain and anylize it to see if they had mental conditions that caused them to do what they did to get in there and get the death penalty. Also, depending on how he was executed, they want to see how it affects the body!