U.S. resumed death sentences after botched execution in Oklahoma

After almost two months of inactivity in the chambers of death in the United States due to a disastrous performance in Oklahoma in which the convicted person took nearly 45 minutes to die, last week lawfully killed three people in less than 24 hours in three states, with the common denominator in all three cases of the deadly cocktail of drugs to prisoners is injected into the veins until the heart stops beating.

The three men had exhausted their legal remedies before the Supreme Court of the United States and were ultimately tied to the gurney where the executioner in office administered pharmacological doses. Secrecy remains the prevailing norm in the corridors of death, both in terms of who comes to the performance and how much and how much medicine is applied.

Georgia and Missouri had to leave in 2012 the deadly cocktail of three drugs that included lethal injection since the eighties. The lack of one of the three components after the European laboratory which manufactures stop exporting to the U.S. the prisons stopped using the combination.

Since then, Georgia and Missouri are only used to execute death row drug called pentobarbital, a barbiturate that is often used to kill animals, and on which criminal authorities, protected by the courts, they provide data about its origin, in many cases laboratories are not subject to federal regulations of quality control.

For Florida, the execution could have gone so terribly wrong as in Oklahoma on 29 April. Florida continues to use the deadly cocktail of three drugs, but has replaced the first, sodium pentothal anesthetic used as sleeping the accused before applying the other two substances that destroy their life, midazolam, a sedative that sold under the trade name Versed and benzodiazepine is supposedly has the world’s fastest effect.

After the gruesome execution of Oklahoma, President Barack Obama was outraged and demanded a review of the protocols followed in the application of the death penalty. But so far, the only progress made is that some of the 32 states where the death penalty is in force have decided to re-consider methods used in the past for its lack of humanity as the firing squad, hanging or electric chair, as Tennessee proposed last month.

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Posted by Khalil Khan on Jun 24 2014. Filed under USA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.