barbiturate is the most common drug to incapacitate someone.
what is the most common drug to incapacitate someone?
barbiturate
chloroform has reputedly been used by criminals to knock out, daze, or even murder victims. joseph harris was charged in 1894 with using chloroform to rob people. serial killer h. h. holmes used chloroform overdoses to kill his female victims. in september 1900, chloroform was also implicated in the murder of the american businessman william marsh rice, the namesake of the institution now known as rice university. chloroform was also deemed a factor in the alleged murder of a woman in 1991 when she was asphyxiated while sleeping. in a 2007 plea bargain, a man confessed to using stun guns and chloroform to sexually assault minors. use of chloroform as an incapacitating agent has become widely recognized, bordering on clichéd, due to the popularity of crime fiction authors having criminals use chloroform-soaked rags to render victims unconscious. however, it is nearly impossible to incapacitate someone using chloroform in this manner. it takes at least five minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render a person unconscious. most criminal cases involving chloroform also involve another drug being co-administered, such as alcohol or diazepam, or the victim being found to have been complicit in its administration. after a person has lost consciousness due to chloroform inhalation, a continuous volume must be administered and the chin must be supported to keep the tongue from obstructing the airway, a difficult procedure typically requiring the skills of an anesthesiologist. in 1865 as a direct result of the criminal reputation chloroform had gained, medical journal "the lancet" offered a "permanent scientific reputation" to anyone who could demonstrate "instantaneous insensibility", ie losing consciousness instantaneously, using chloroform.
chloroform
after giving up the ebony blade, whitman designed and constructed a neural sword. the neural sword appears to be made of a laser beam and cuts through non-living matter. its "laser" blade is actually a neural disruptor when used against living beings; when whitman cuts someone with the sword, it delivers a massive jolt to the being's central nervous system. this jolt is usually enough to incapacitate someone within just a few hits. alternately, whitman can reverse the neural sword's energy stream so that it encases its hilt and by extension, whitman's fist in a high-energy field. using the sword in this fashion enables whitman to punch with some unspecified degree of enhanced strength. the neural sword also creates a refraction field used to defend against energy-based attacks.
black knight (dane whitman)