People Executed In US By Lethal Injection May Be Awake As They Slowly Suffocate

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Some prisoners executed by lethal injection in the United States may die of suffocation while they are still conscious and in pain.Reuters Some prisoners executed by lethal injection in the United States may die of suffocation while they are still conscious and in pain, University of Miami researchers said on Monday in a study that concluded the drugs do not work as intended.

The study, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine, raised new questions about whether the lethal cocktail violates the U.S. constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Lethal injection is the primary method of execution for 37 U.S. states and the federal government, though more than a dozen states have halted or suspended the procedure because of legal or ethical questions. snip

In cases where the injection was botched and the drugs were delivered into the muscle or under the skin rather than into the veins, prisoners would by fully aware as the paralysis took hold and the potassium chloride was administered, said Teresa Zimmers, who led the study.

"It would sort of be the equivalent of slowly suffocating while being burned alive," Zimmers said in a telephone interview.

The researchers said that was likely the experience of Florida inmate Angel Diaz, who took 34 minutes to die in December after the needles were inserted improperly.

we'll quit trying to find new and more acceptable ways of executing people and abolish the dp.

but the best thing would be to end the DP.

This is yet another in the long list of reasons why capital punshment must be outlawed.

Source: Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070424/ap_on_he_me/lethal_injection

I've put under for surgery multiple times.

Lemme tell you, anthesia KNOCKS YOU OUT. You don't dream, you don't think, you do nothing. Its like being dead.

One moment you are loopy and talking to the surgeon/nurse whatever...the next you are in recovery asking when they are going to start (only to find that they finished an hour ago)

Anyone reading this who has had general anthesia knows what Im talking about.

So if we can do this for people thousands of times per day in every hospital in the country...why cant they do it for people they are getting ready to kill?

And since anesthesiologists are medical doctors, they won't participate in executions because it violates the Hippocratic Oath.

There are no doubt people all over the country who are applauding this report and saying that it's a good thing that those being executed are made to suffer horribly.

The barbarism continues because we have so many barbarians in this country.