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...Then, in 1977, an Oklahoma medical examiner named Jay Chapman proposed that death-row inmates be executed using three drugs administered in a specific sequence: a barbiturate (to anesthetize inmates), pancuronium bromide (to paralyze inmates and stop their breathing) and lastly potassium chloride (which stops the heart). A simpler, barbiturate-only procedure was rejected on the grounds that the public would not support a killing method for humans modeled after that used for animals, according to Ty Alper, a lawyer who represents death-row inmates and is associate director of the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California...
...fundamental right. Capital punishment by lethal injection does have a history of cases in which severe writhing and convulsions have taken place following the injection. Currently Kentucky, one of the 36 states that still use the death penalty, employs a cocktail of three different drugs, one of which is pancuronium bromide, a paralytic drug that is intended to prevent convulsions when the lethal chemical is inserted intravenously to the victim. Because the drug induces a paralysis, the executioners cannot determine if the inmate is undergoing any sort of pain. He is rendered unable to move, let alone scream?...
...five miles away. There, on a white metal table with outstretched armrests, on a yet-to-be-determined day at a yet-to-be-determined hour, he will be strapped down and injected with three drugs. The first shot of sodium thiopental will bring on unconsciousness. The second drug, pancuronium bromide, will paralyze his body functions. And the last drug, potassium chloride, will stop his heart. "The years 15 to 18 are when you should learn most of the things about life," says Cousin. "Right now, being here, I know more about the justice system than I do about life...
DIED. Ronald O'Bryan, 39, the so-called Candy Man killer, who was convicted in 1975 of poisoning his eight-year-old son with cyanide-laced Halloween sweets; by execution (a lethal injection of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride); in Huntsville, Texas...
Brooks died from an overdose of the sodium thiopental, an autopsy revealed, just as prison authorities had intended. But two more syringes were injected as a guarantee of death. The second dose was 100 mg of pancuronium bromide, a synthetic muscle relaxant designed to paralyze Brooks and stop his breathing. The last was enough potassium chloride to stop the heart. When, at 12:16, Brooks was pronounced dead, two-thirds of the potassium chloride remained unused...