Post by thinkinkmesa on Jun 30, 2011 22:52:46 GMT -5
U.S. presses on with executions despite inmates’ suffering
Despite evidence of agonising deaths caused, and in possible violation of the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, numerous prisons in the United States have continued to use an untested drug, pentobarbital, in their lethal injection cocktail for executions.
Most recently the state of Georgia used the animal euthanasia barbiturate to put to death Roy Blankenship (55) who, according to leading U.S. anaesthesiologist David Waisel, “was inadequately anesthetized and was conscious for approximately the first three minutes of the execution and that he suffered greatly.”
More;
www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2148034.ece
Despite evidence of agonising deaths caused, and in possible violation of the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, numerous prisons in the United States have continued to use an untested drug, pentobarbital, in their lethal injection cocktail for executions.
Most recently the state of Georgia used the animal euthanasia barbiturate to put to death Roy Blankenship (55) who, according to leading U.S. anaesthesiologist David Waisel, “was inadequately anesthetized and was conscious for approximately the first three minutes of the execution and that he suffered greatly.”
More;
www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2148034.ece