Word: pancuronium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...trend arises mainly from a search for a more humane form of capital punishment. Three drugs will flow into Hays to render him unconscious and paralyze his heart: thiopental sodium, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride. Theoretically, they should make dying no more traumatic than falling asleep...