On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 06:05 pm, Chad Cooper wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/08/ wexec08.xml
"A judge's ruling that the "humane" drug cocktail used to execute prisoners may trigger excruciating pain is a boost for opponents, writes David Rennie in Washington
A passionate debate has been sparked in the United States by findings that the "humane" drug cocktail used to execute most prisoners may in some cases trigger excruciating pain while paralysing inmates so they cannot cry out.
I have gone through the methodology protocol used in excutions, and I see
nothing wrong with it.
The protocol might be fine - but how well trained are the people who administer executions? Not very well I think. They're not doctors or even nurses!
Because the execution method is similar to what is used in general
anesthesia (sans the potassium), it is a tried and true method with a
significantly small failure rate (usually associated with a mistake of the
Anesthestist).
They don't have anesthetists at executions. How does that affect the failure rate?
Rest assured, I have not heard of any passionalte debate about lethal
injection methods. It sounds more like sensationalization of the possibility
(however remote) of a painful execution.
The drug, pancuronium bromide, is banned in some states for use in putting down pets and strongly discouraged by the American Veterinary Medical Association with a warning that if used without perfect anaesthesia an animal "may perceive pain and distress after it is immobilised"."
Note "perfect anaesthesia". Some vet's may chose to skip the pentathol for
cost reasons. For those of you how may have to have a pet put down, it is
important to make sure your vet uses it.
I doubt that the AVMA expressed it that way for the reasons you suggest. That kind of animal cruelty would be abhorrent to any vet. Vets *like* animals.
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