Posted on 04/29/2014 11:06:41 PM PDT by Usagi_yo
McALESTER, Okla. – A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the proceedings before the inmate's eventual death from a heart attack.
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It’s not that hard.
One full-face cover diving helmet.
One “K Bottle” of dry nitrogen.
Mission accomplished.
Right.
It's important - no, it's VERY important - that starting the IV, setting up the meds, pushing the propofol, etc., etc., has one and only one purpose.
You know, when Mister Speaker said to King Charles, "I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak, except as it pleases this House"?
That's how I feel about my medical skills. They have one and only one purpose, and it's not killing somebody.
It's a problem because IV techs, pharmacists, nurses and doctors have, and should have, a very high barrier against deploying their particular skill sets for killing people.
I'm very pro-death penalty, I think it's moral and just, but I would never, ever use any skills I've acquired in medical training to kill somebody. Pull the trigger, open the trap door, swing the axe - sure.
It's not surprising to me that medical staff at prisons aren't very good at this.
Pure nitrogen environment will have the con pass out in seconds and be brain dead in 10 minutes.
Why did you tell me that? I go in for a colonoscopy next week.
+1 Agreed. Medical executions are a horrible Idea.
180 grains of lead is much simpler...and less expensive.
But hadn’t the killer already been given the drug to make him unconscious? The execution was still ‘humane,’ only cruel to those witnessing it.
And I’m supposed to feel sorry this PoS suffered?
He didn’t suffer nearly as much as his victim dead, unless they plan on burying him alive?
I’d watch that on pay-per-view with a big tub of popcorn, if the money went to the victim family.
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