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Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broader sense to include euthanasia and other forms of ...
Anthony Jay Chapman, known as A. Jay Chapman, (born Jan 1939) [1] [2] is an American physician and forensic pathologist who, in 1977, created the first three-drug protocol used for lethal injection, the most commonly used form of capital punishment in the United States.
Lethal injection was proposed and adopted on the grounds it was more humane than the methods of execution in place at the time, such as the electric chair and gas chamber. [2] Opponents of lethal injection reject this argument, noting multiple cases where executions have been either painful, prolonged, or both.
The eight actions were (a) administration of lethal drugs, (b) starting intravenous lines for such drugs, (c) maintaining or inspecting lethal injection devices, (d) ordering lethal drugs, (e) supervising the administration of lethal drugs, (f) selecting injection sites, (g) monitoring vital signs during the execution, and (h) determining death.
The sustained decline of the death penalty is about much more than access to a lethal drug. Lethal injection drug makes poor excuse to bring back Indiana's death penalty Skip to main content
Executed using a new, untried and untested lethal drug combination and took over 25 minutes to die. Clayton Lockett (2014) – Lethal injection. Was observed convulsing and attempting to speak for 43 minutes after the drugs were administered. Ultimately died of a heart attack. Joseph Wood (2014) – Lethal injection. Instead of the usual ten ...
An Oklahoma man who killed a 10-year-old girl in a cannibalistic fantasy died by lethal injection Thursday in the nation’s 25th and final execution of the year.
Poison can also enter the body through faulty medical implants, or by injection (which is the basis of lethal injection in the context of capital punishment). In 2013, 3.3 million cases of unintentional human poisonings occurred. [11] This resulted in 98,000 deaths worldwide, down from 120,000 deaths in 1990. [12]