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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Chaos on death row Finished drugs used to execute prisoners 

 and prison guards in USA are being forced to improvise a new way to kill


A machine presses three syringes, in which there is pancuronium bromide, thiopental and potassium chloride. 

The substances enter the bloodstream, and the person loses consciousness after 30 seconds.

 Over the next four minutes, his breathing slows and the heart.

 Death. In the past three decades, nearly 1,200 convicts were executed in this way in the USA.

 But American and European laboratories that produce thiopental no longer want to sell it for use in executions (argue that the remedy should not be used to kill).

 And the United States is running out of drugs to apply the death penalty. 

To circumvent the problem, another cocktail that mixes the sedative midazolam anesthetic with hydromorphone was created. 

The combination was first used in January - and it did not work.

 Dennis McGuire, 54, sentenced to death for raping and killing a pregnant woman, was the first to receive the mixture. 

He agonized for 26 minutes choking and sending "strange sounds". 

The execution was considered a failure because it caused extreme physical suffering -

 precisely what the Americans wanted to avoid when they adopted lethal injection in the 1980s From the 539 executions carried out in the USA in the last ten years, 530 were via injection.

 Eight were by electrocution and one by firing squad (the shot was Ronnie Lee Gardner, convicted of murder in Utah.

 He chose to run the shots because he was a Mormon, and believed that only would fix what he had done to spill their own blood).



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