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Originally Posted by CrazyFlamingos  Hwy, what I have not seen addressed and what needs to be done is to simply reevaluate the drugs that are being used.
The complaint about the current method, if I understand it correctly, is that the sedating drugs do not keep the person being executed unconscious while the other drugs take affect. And that he wakes up to find himself paralyzed by a second drug and unable to let anyone know he is awake. The third drug, I believe, stops the heart and if one is conscious, feels the same as a heart attack.
It seems to me that lawmakers are just making this problem more difficult than it should be.
After all, when one has surgery, the doctors keep you out for not just minutes, but sometimes hours. It should be simple enough to come up with a different sedative or combination of sedatives that assures unconsciousness long enough for the lethal drugs to take affect.
On the other hand, I, personally don't really care if the death penalty is halted in the U.S. because the lawmakers are to fugging dumb to figure out how to make it humane. It is applied much too broadly and randomly to serve any legitimate purpose in a civilized society anyway.
And we are a civilized society, aren't we? | The executioner would usually give the comdemned an OD of the drugs used, would he not?
One of the drugs to put the person to sleep during surgery in most cases is Sodium Pentothal. That's supposedly what is used on the condemned prisoner.
If a patient is going to have endoscopy or the other kind of test, usually Versed would be used.
Now, for the second part, and somebody help me on this, but isn't potassium chloride used?
I don't know what the third drug is used for. But you're right, there can always be debates among our elected official, attorneys, and judges about this. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105 |